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In space, everyone can read your opinions.

A collection of reviews from multiple parties, along with some extra audio fun.

Mandy (2018)

November 01, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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What did I even just get myself into? I remember catching a trailer for this, and adding it to my queue long before I could actually get it in the mail in the first place. It finally shows up, and I’ve all but forgotten anything about it - so I throw into the description real quick. Nicolas Cage? Check. Revenge flick? Check. I’m good to rock and roll, surely this will be a entertaining thing. Man, was I woefully under prepared for what I was about to see. Get ready for a blend of things so intense you might end up hating and loving at the same time - it’s time to push play on Mandy.

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categories / action, horror, nr, thriller
tags / Mandy

The Black Hole (1979)

October 25, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Tonight I remedy a mishap I had earlier on, in which I had intended to watch this film but instead got words mixed up in my head and ended up watching a totally unrelated movie instead. I slotted this on in for now, primarily because most the time I heard of it was in reference to it being terrifying - although I do find it amusing that in fact “horror” isn’t a tag for this movie. Although it’s much more science fiction than it is horror, the two aren’t entirely exclusive to each other - heck, the mysteries of the unknown can often turn into the terror for those who seek them, if any Sasquatch movie is something to go off of. So strap into your time machines and prepare to go back to the past for another hearty jaunt of a different tomorrow, tonight we look into The Black Hole and see what gazes back.

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categories / action, pg, scifi
tags / The Black Hole

Night of the Lepus (1972)

October 18, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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There are many different types of horror. So far this October, we’ve checked out some psychological thrills and some cheap evil monster spooks. Tonight, we go to a universal stand by that’s been around longer than I have - Science! Yes, the folly of man, science gone wild. Oh, and I should mention it’s just about the cutest science gone mad you could get - except that close-up view of it’s big nasty teeth. Tonight, we get hopping with Night of the Lepus.

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categories / horror, pg, scifi, thriller
tags / Night of the Lepus

Clawed (2017)

October 11, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Sometimes I get myself in trouble deciding to watch things just reading the description. I once accidentally found myself in an Uwe Boll film because the description sounded passable and I didn’t look at who was involved with it. Tonight, I find myself looking at a movie that if nothing else promises to be a creature flick - and I like those. None of the names mean a thing to me - haven’t heard of any of them - but the description tells me the premise could be interesting in the same way any other creature feature could. So I throttle in the DVD, turn off the lights, and prepare to follow up on the surprisingly good psycho-horror of last week with something that’s way more up my alley - and within the first ten minutes I know if its going to be a good time or I’m going to want to claw my eyes out. Perhaps it should have stuck with it’s more sludge-oriented original title, tonights entry is Clawed.

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categories / horror, nr
tags / Clawed

Delirium (2018)

October 04, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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It’s finally a month that makes logical sense for me to pull out some scary movies. Yeah, I know, I can hear you complaining that I do too many of those kinds of movies - but you know what? There’s only so many Godzilla flicks I can do (although I do suppose I could start up one of the other eras). Regardless, tonight we take on something a little less slashy, and try using our brains for a change. This chiller of a thriller will have you second guessing your own plot assumptions as you go, tonight we watch Delirium - the one with Topher Grace, because apparently there are a bunch of them, two of which came out the same year (insane, right?).

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categories / horror, r, thriller
tags / Delirium

Ready Player One (2018)

September 27, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Nostalgia the movie. Let’s be honest here, if anyone goes into this movie and comes out complaining about the amount of pop culture references, than they probably shouldn’t have gone to see the movie in the first place. The trailers for this thing told me everything I needed having never read the book that existed before hand - I’m gonna get things I remember from my childhood, and from one of my favorite past times. If I don’t get fond remembrances, I’ll get a video game movie that isn’t strictly tied to a franchise in which to be labeled a horrible adaptation but instead just a lot of gaming as a whole. I don’t see anything in this trailer that tells me “No, do not watch this” and finally the day has come for me to test and see if it was all a fabricated DLC pass grabbing at my quarters, or if my expectations can be delivered upon without seventeen thousand hotfixes. Tonight, we check out Ready Player One.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Ready Player One

Big Legend (2018)

September 20, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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I’ve been watching a lot of Mountain Monsters lately - a show in which a bunch of rednecks go out in the woods looking for ‘squatch and other monstrosities. Well, low and behold, this weeks movie ties into that sort of thing - at least, the Sasquatch side of it. I don’t know if this is something I heard about somewhere - as it doesn’t have the main segment that I do recall hearing a reviewer talk about - or if this was just one of the many window-browsing catches while trying to fill up my DVD queue, but nonetheless it has itself some great timing as far as general interest from me. So then, lets figure out if this thing can be as much of a legend as it can be, or if perhaps it’s just another fake print in the woods.

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categories / action, adventure, horror, nr, thriller
tags / Big Legend

Upgrade (2018)

September 13, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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Revenge movies are a pretty hefty genre all in themselves. Some are a bit hard to watch - I’m myself not particularly a fan of the real rape-y ones - while others try and emphasize a specific twist to differentiate themselves. I once watched an Antonio Banderas revenge flick where his twist was that he didn’t talk until the revenge was completed. In the case of Upgrade, the twist is cybernetic enhancements of the future! Look, let’s get real here - I saw a shotgun arm in a trailer for it, and that’s really all it took to sell me on checking this one out. Let’s find out if this movie can bring in the extra slot of RAM, or if it would have been better off being scrapped.

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categories / action, horror, r, scifi, thriller
tags / Upgrade

Blood Fest (2018)

September 06, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Horror isn't a genre for everybody. Sometimes, people prefer their spooks with a little bit of laughs as well. This is probably one of the trickier types of movies to look at - on part because humor is so subjective from person to person, but also because the plethora of movies out there that look at horror from a meta perspective or play things up for laughs already, such as Shaun of the Dead. More often than not, even the common horror flicks tend to have one character relegated to the roll of tension relief through laughs - but horror isn't the only thing this movie has to tackle. The last batch of Rooster Teeth branded movies I watched were the Lazer Team films, and although they could be enjoyed by a person who wasn't into the company's other content, it certainly didn't hurt to already enjoy their brand of humor to which those movies already played. So here we sit, ready to see if this one makes you bored or makes you, well, I'll let you finish the rhyme.

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categories / comedy, horror, nr
tags / Blood Fest

Isle of Dogs (2018)

August 30, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Stick around long enough and you'll know or learn that I like those offbeat movie effects. I'm fine with CG, and I enjoy some fine practical, but there's just some weird charm and draw to stop motion movies. The fact that really anyone could do it, but knowing the huge time-barrier and immense amount of effort that goes into them only adds to that draw I imagine. Still, from the trailer I thought this was something to put on my radar, and tonight it's finally come in the mail. Let's find out whose been a good boy.

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categories / adventure, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, pg13, scifi
tags / Isle of Dogs

A Quiet Place (2018)

August 23, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   People were raving about this one when it came out. Perhaps the ruckus for Get Out was a bit more pronounced, and I'm sure I'll get to that eventually, but this one was certainly up there as far as spooky flicks went. What a novel concept regardless! Critters that attack by hearing things? It's like a bat monster, and who doesn't like that? Well, let's find out if this movie is as cool as the populace have said, or if perhaps they should hush up and bring our expectations down a few decibels.

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categories / drama, horror, pg13, scifi, thriller
tags / A Quiet Place

Rampage (2018)

August 16, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Monster Hunter World came out recently for the PC, and I've been sinking a lot of free time into it. It's actually somewhat humorous that on that game's release I had intended to watch this movie, but swapped out to a different one to get more game time in. This week, however, is a movie that's about another video game, despite the similarities in giant creatures. Why choose a game that really had no plot and was essentially just high-score runs to smash buildings as various oversized anthropomorphic creatures? My money is on the "nobody will care if we make a stupid and fun action movie out of this." Let's see if I'm right or my expectations are just on a total rampage.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Rampage

Constantine (2005)

August 09, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Do you remember the time before the Marvel menace, when all comic movies were just the worst thing ever? Ha! Trick question, there was no such time! Alright, according to some there was, but quite frankly there's always been good ones and bad ones in my opinion, and largely since I'm just looking to be entertained and judge things on a personal enjoyment level more so than the critical gross profit success that companies really care about, I've enjoyed a comic-themed movie that was released way back in 1981 (which may not have been the actual first one I saw in my lifetime, but is probably one of the oldest ones film chronology wise). In recent years, I've become a bit burnt out on them - not because they are bad movies in any sense, but purely on the saturation of them. Still, I figured that we might as well go back at least a little ways and check out Constantine and see how that one holds up.

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categories / action, drama, fantasy, horror, mystery, r, thriller
tags / Constantine

The Hurricane Heist (2018)

August 02, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   I'm drawn to movies like the entry for tonight. A concept that's outrageous, and yet also somehow makes a lot of sense, but by it's very nature makes you go "well this ought to be stupid fun." It happens a lot to me - and most of the time I wait for home release to watch these movies, because the situation here is that it's just cheaper for me, and although I find high probability in enjoyment, they never feel like the necessitate the extra travel and pay for a larger screen with better sound options. Still, this hurricane caper came of as pretty corny when I saw the trailer, so lets find out if this hurricane really blows.

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categories / action, crime, pg13, thriller
tags / The Hurricane Heist

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

July 26, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   I wasn't super impressed with the last animated Batman movie that I checked out. Sure, it wasn't bad and it did have some bat-crap insane segments to it that I could appreciate, but there were moments when the quality just felt like it was subpar and I overall didn't think they really used the setting or concept to it's fullest. Well, of course they decided to make a Batman movie set just about in as old-timey not-London as it could possibly get. Color me interested, and remind your family to look at those MPAA ratings - it's time for the Bat to fight the Jack.

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categories / action, adventure, animation, crime, fantasy, history, horror, mystery, r, thriller
tags / Batman: Gotham by Gaslight

The Blob (1988)

July 19, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   I know, I know - "You already did The Blob" - but I didn't do this one. See, Blobby here is one of those movies that every so often crops up again, gets that (at the time) modern flair and set back out. Although the modern audience may act like remakes are new and the absolute worst thing ever, they've been around probably about as long as film's existed in some way or form. Still, I love monster flicks, I love camp, and more than actual remakes themselves I love to see just what's changed between people's takes. For those abundant reasons, it's time for us to once again run screaming in terror over the gooey jello of death and find out if the flavor is delicious or gross.

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categories / horror, r, scifi, thriller
tags / The Blob

Jurassic Park (1993)

July 12, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   It might seem like I'm behind schedule on putting out a dinosaur movie to cash in on the sudden resurgence of the Jurassic franchise, but in all honesty it's just a mistiming in the queue delivery causing me to find a backup movie to do for this week and going "wow, I haven't done a single one of those movies eh?" So here we have it - Jurassic Park. It's been a while since I watched it, and there is always that lingering feeling of wanting to perhaps pick up that 3d edition I saw existed, but how well does it hold up after all these years? Is it just nostalgia coloring the world, or is it actually as impressive as dinosaurs stomping around in a park? Lets sit down and see just how extinct these dinosaurs really are.

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categories / adventure, pg13, scifi, thriller
tags / Jurassic Park

I Kill Giants (2017)

July 05, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Occasionally you see a title and a trailer and think "well, this could be fun." Honestly, it happens more often than not for me, but in this case I had a few reservations. Of course, nothing that was going to stop me from watching the movie in the slightest - simply an observational wariness based on past experiences. In this movie pitched as a kid versus giants, there would be a statistical lean towards the giants not actually being physically real giants. The most recent film to actually deliver on a premise such as making a monster real in a way that the lead believing in them wasn't just imaginative or crazy I believe for me was Trollhunter, and that was at this point eight years ago. Still, make-believe or not I'm promised a girl fighting giants, and as this disc spins up I'm hoping it's not a case of "the bigger they are."

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categories / drama, fantasy, nr, thriller
tags / I Kill Giants

The Final Master (2015)

June 28, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   Were you aware that Netflix has a category in the genre selection drop down for it's streaming service called "Summer of Love?" I found that out today - and one of these movies didn't look like the others. The Final Master has been floating around on the service for a while, and I just haven't bother watching it yet (I was still partially on burn-out from a martial arts binge previous to seeing it being listed), and figured what an elaborate excuse to watch it when it shows up under such a wacky category? Expectations are tempered towards romance, but can blades slice through the drama and bring in some passionate fight choreography? There's only one way for me to find out.

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categories / action, drama, nr
tags / The Final Master

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

June 21, 2018  /  Ken Rupracht

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   When the first Pacific Rim was getting made, I was stoked - finally some modern day giant robots beating down some giant monsters. It's everything I could have wanted, and when it came out and I watched it I was very content. My first thought upon hearing of a sequel was more of an underwhelming "eh?" than anything else - it isn't that I thought it was going to be terrible or anything of that sort, I just didn't really feel the first one needed a sequel. Well, now that the second one is out I've seen a few reviews on there largely acting like the first was some sort of masterpiece and proclaiming all manner of complaints towards the new one that didn't make sense to me having seen the first. Of course I planned on getting to it at some point, but tonight we form our own opinion and see what happens after the apocalypse has been cancelled.

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categories / action, adventure, pg13, scifi
tags / Pacific Rim: Uprising
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