Opening with one of the most “fowl” (sorry folks) sequences I’ve seen this side of Tromaville, COOTIES starts things off right. The premise is simple: a tainted shipment of chicken nuggets infects a young girl at Fort Chicken Elementary with “cooties.” Like a traditional zombie outbreak, the infection spreads whenever someone is scratched or bitten. […]
Comedy
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: We’d like to welcome back video game enthusiast, The Rube, to the clubhouse. If you haven’t read some of his previous reviews, they’re worth checking out!] Okay, so here’s the deal… If you didn’t live through the year of 1982, or at least have a vast appreciation for pop culture history, the humor […]
Tagged with: Adam Sandler, bad movies, comedy, Pixels, sci-fi, video games, Wreck-It Ralph
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Hitting theaters on October 16th, I (shamefully) admit that I keep forgetting about Sony’s upcoming GOOSEBUMPS movie. But NO MORE—not after seeing this trailer! The concept for the film, which burrows from Jumanji‘s “magical item unleashing another world” plot device, finds teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) inadvertently unleashing ALL of R.L. Stine’s (Jack Black) monstrous […]
Tagged with: comedy, Goosebumps, horror, Jack Black, R.L. Stine, Sony Pictures, trailer
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You’re up late, farting around online, when suddenly you stumble across a super obscure movie trailer for an indie film. You click the play button and 2 minutes later you realize that you have to see this film. This happened to me around a year ago. The film was Wolfcop and ever since that moment […]
Tagged with: comedy, horror, indie film, werewolves, WolfCop
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While every may have been talking about the new trailer for PIXELS yesterday, a far more interesting (and frankly funnier) film also dropped it’s first official trailer yesterday. Produced by Austin-based production company Rooster Teeth and directed by Matt Hullum, this other film takes the concept of The Guyver, multiples by four, adds in a […]
Tagged with: Austin TX, comedy, Iron Man, Rooster Teeth, sci-fi, The Guyver
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“Shithead.” That’s what everybody tells Bubba Blanche he is. Of course it might help if he didn’t keep accidentally laying down in dogshit. Bubba (Fred Lass) is living an unfulfilling life as a small town dogcatcher for the town of Broken Taint and he just seems to run into one spot of bad luck after […]
Tagged with: Bubba the Redneck Werewolf, comedy, horror, indie film, Mitch Hyman, Spooky Empire
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While we all have our own Halloween traditions that take place offline (favorite films, decorations, candy), there’s one in particular that I look forward to online every year: Ariescope’s Annual Halloween Short. I first discovered these shorts back in 2009 and ever since I look forward to them every October. Some have been great (Jack […]
Tagged with: Adam Green, Ariescope, ArieScope Pictures, Brea Grant, comedy, Halloween, horror, Shawn Ashmore, short film