by shezcrafti | Apr 26, 2009 | 4 the Lulz, Stuff I Watch |
There’s been a disturbing trend in Hollywood over the last couple of years: invasion of the emos. Aparently we girls like our movie heroes hot, angry, and whiny. For whatever reason, the hot male lead + pent-up angst formula seems to be working, because emo...
by shezcrafti | Apr 21, 2009 | 4 the Lulz, Stuff I Watch |
I’m not sure what tear in the space-time continuum enabled me to notice, but the greatest movie quotes have only six words. Don’t ask me why! What I do know is that it was fun to go through all my DVDs to dig up these awesome screenshots for you....
by shezcrafti | Feb 11, 2009 | Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
Coraline is one of those movies I knew I would love before I even knew anything about it. Between being written by fantasy god Neil Gaiman, directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas), and featuring dark and dreamy stop-motion visuals, it just had my...
by shezcrafti | Dec 4, 2008 | Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
I have a love/hate relationship with George Lucas. I suspect we all do. On the love side he has given us masterpieces like the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, and on the hate side he’s shit out things like Jar Jar Binks and The Kingdom of the Crystal...
by shezcrafti | Dec 2, 2008 | Stuff I Watch |
The Power of the Dark Crystal If you were a kid raised on The Muppet Show in the 1970s and early 80s, it was inevitable that you saw The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson and Brian Froud’s epic 1982 fantasy movie. Although many kids were admittedly terrified by it, there were...
by shezcrafti | Nov 28, 2008 | Reviews & Opinion, Stuff I Watch |
How does a movie manage to be dark and deeply disturbing, yet tender and touching in the same breath? Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) is a beautifully-told macabre fantasy story that accomplishes exactly that. Oskar (Kåre Hedebrant)...
