I'm not usually very interested in war movies. In fact war is the least interesting genre of any entertainment to me. But AV Club had this movie near the top of their best of 2015 list, so I checked it out on a whim. Phoenix is about a woman who escaped from a concentration camp …
HO HO HO!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you are all having a great evening and have big plans for the next year! Do something for yourself! Do something for those around you! I don't know what... but do something! Make a plan, have a goal... Create something! I've had a great year and have high hopes for …
Jessica Jones, the hero TV needed
Disclaimer: I do not read comics or care about super hero movies or shows in general, and had never heard of Jessica Jones before this show. Jessica Jones is another brilliant Netflix original. It's a dark, exciting, interesting show about a private investigator with a painful past, and a sociopath who can control minds. But--it's …
Alien worlds in our own backyard
I watched this TED talk the other day and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It is exciting to think of so much unknown still in our world, even if I myself will likely never do any of the discovering. There are millions of miles of unexplored caves beneath us. Untouched by humanity. …
Dead Snow
I watched this zombie movie on Halloween and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting a stupid gorefest with maybe a couple laughs, and what I got was actually a well crafted monster movie. One thing that a lot of these type movies don't understand is that if you play your hand too early, the audience …
