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Feb 1, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Everything you have or will read or hear about Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead will tell you that it’s ‘Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead’. ...
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Jan 24, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Love in the Time of Monsters
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present…the greatest assembly of undead woodland creatures ever put to film…Love in the Time of...
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Jan 14, 2016
Movie Review - Superman II
To talk about Superman II, you have to end up talking about two separate films. That’s why it’s been so many months between this and my...
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Jan 6, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Embrace of the Vampire
Part 3 of how I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve! See Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE! So now, we must complete the trilogy…but a warning...
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Jan 5, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Black Scorpion
Part 2 of how I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve! See Part 1 HERE. Comic books have a linear progression in their history: the emergence...
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Jan 4, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Lifeforce
How I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve: Part 1 Directed by Tobe Hooper, fresh off of the success of Poltergeist. Written by Dan O’Bannon,...
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Dec 20, 2015
In Defense of... Fantastic 4 (2015)
10% on Rotten Tomatoes. Damn, that’s actually DOWN from when I looked at it yesterday (it was 11% then). If you switch over to the...
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Dec 18, 2015
Movie Review - Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Go. Don’t read this, just go. Sigh. Okay, you’re still here…so you want a review. Fine. Have you ever looked into the eyes of a...
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Dec 16, 2015
Impulse Buy Theater - The Final Girls
Part 2 of a 2 part Impulse Buy Theater!!! Last time…we talked about my going into a Best Buy wanting to buy “The Final Girls” and leaving...
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Dec 14, 2015
Impulse Buy Theater - Final Girl
There’s an old trick, or at least by now it’s an old trick, that certain low-grade film studios will use to get their usually crappy...
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Nov 25, 2015
Impulse Buy Theater - Black Dynamite
For a parody to be truly effective, it has to love its target. Take Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, for instance. The numerous call...
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Nov 19, 2015
Impulse Buy Theater - Wolfcop
Take a moment to look at this cover. Just…look at it. Okay, now that we have you in the right mindset, let’s give you a peek as to what...
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Nov 3, 2015
Short Film Review - Metroid: The Sky Calls
Really??? With all the movie reviews you have piling up behind the desk, you’re going to take the time to review a YouTube video? Yes,...
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Oct 22, 2015
Gallery - Star Wars and the Power of Costume Exhibit
Even though the exhibit has left Seattle's EMP Museum of Popular Culture, we here at the Cat did manage to get in at the last minute and...
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Oct 21, 2015
Movie Review - The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?
What if…? “What if…?” can be either fun or tragic. That simple question alone brought forth a multiverse in both Marvel and DC Universes...
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Apr 21, 2015
Trailer Madness!
Wow. I unplug from the internet for a couple weeks and this is what happens. New trailers for Ant-Man, Fantastic Four, Terminator...
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Feb 24, 2015
Movie Review - Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
George Reeves. I know dropping this name probably spoils the ending to Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)…or does it? ...
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Feb 11, 2015
Movie Review - Lucy
“I am Dune.” “I am Dune.” Yes, I know I’m writing a review for Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy’…but hear me out. Toward the end of the documentary...
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Jan 22, 2015
Movie Review - Superman: The Movie
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while. I mean, how do you write about a classic film? What can you say that so many other critics...
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Nov 18, 2014
Movie Review: Interstellar
Some simple math for those of you that don’t want to read my entire review: 2001 – Arthur C. Clarke = Interstellar. Sure, it’s more...
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