Month: August 2013

You’re Next

A family reunion turns into a home invasion of cute animal masks. Home invasion movies aren’t scary to me. Yes, I will jump from time to time, but it doesn’t stay with me like ghost stories or haunted house movies. I think why those scare me more is because...

The World’s End

Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, a 40-year-old Gary King rounds up his high school friends so they can go back to their hometown and finish the Golden Mile.  This would be the last part of comedy trilogy that started with the zombie satire Shaun of the Dead...

Building Stories

Building Stories by Chris Ware I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I picked up this graphic novel at the comic book store. It came in a huge box. It had 14 different pieces to it. They ranged from small books to newspapers to pamphlets....

Elysium

Director: Neill Blomkamp Cast: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Wagner Moura In the year 2154, Earth  has been divided between the rich living in a space station utopia where any disease can be cured instantaneously and the rest of the poor population has been...

The Orphan Master’s Son

  The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson I was interested in this book since it was about a country that I don’t know much about, North Korea. Unfortunately, the author tried but doesn’t know as much as he wishes he did and that comes through. I couldn’t trust...