Ti West’s The Innkeepers is a unique spin on the ghost story. It follows the last open weekend of a small New England inn, and the two twenty-something slackers that work there. What follows is a slow, deliberate ghost story.
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I’m Inn To It
On February - 2 - 2012
Vengeance Returns? Not Unless It Was on My Brain
On February - 2 - 2012
Underworld Awakening is terrible.
Normally I just do a quick synopsis of a movie and then say what I liked and didn’t like about it without spoiling anything. Not with this, I’m going to tell you everything about the story.
First, I’d like to start off by saying that if I didn’t have passes to the theater I went to I would have had to pay $27 for two people. Instead I had to pay the $7 for 3D, and that was still too much.
Now let’s get to the “story”.
The Secret is Out
On February - 1 - 2012
Ten people walked out on this movie. Ten people paid $12 to see it, and were turned off to the extent that they didn’t want to spend the other hour to hour and a half of their lives watching the rest of it at the showing I attended. The funny thing is this isn’t a bad movie at all, but it might not be for everyone.
A Kick & A Swing
On January - 27 - 2012
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first entry in Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy. I can’t say I’m familiar with the books, but I had seen the original Swedish film before seeing this American remake.
The story follows two characters: Mikael Blomkvist, a recently shamed through conviction of libel reporter, and Lisbeth Salander, a young technologically savvy security consultant and investigator.
The Greatest Most Best Movies of 2011 Podcast
On January - 25 - 2012
What happens when you record a podcast really drunk, and the other people you’re recording with are really drunk? You end up with four hours of audio, some of which is unintelligible, and the desire to re-record. That’s what we did! We believed in this so hard we took time out of our lives to record it again! So it better be really good right? I’ll let you be the judge. If you don’t like it, well it’s possible that our feelings will be hurt.
Listen to it below!And just so you know, this is less than an hour.
Great Blistering Barnacle Snakes of Scotland Yard!
On January - 23 - 2012
The Adventures of Tintin is an animated movie based on the French comic series by Hergé from the late 20′s to the mid-70′s. It stars Jamie Bell as Tintin, Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock, and Daniel Craig as Sakharin. It was directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and written by Stephen Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish (the men behind Sherlock & Doctor Who – Moffat, Hot Fuzz & Shaun of the Dead – Wright, and Attack the Block – Cornish). A lot of big names were behind this.
In the story Tintin buys a model of a 17th century ship. Mr. Sakharin wants that ship, and will apparently do whatever necessary to acquire it. He’s not really after the ship, he’s after a scroll hidden inside of it. Tintin’s apartment gets ransacked , and then he gets kidnapped because Sakharin thinks he has the scroll. That’s when he meets Captain Haddock and the two of them set out to beat Sakharin at his own game.
A Sequel of Disappointment
On January - 20 - 2012
Both Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law are back in the sequel to the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie. To be perfectly honest, if you didn’t like the first one you’re not going to like this one.
In this sequel, subtitled “A Game of Shadows”, Watson is about to be married to his fiancee from the first film, while Sherlock is mentally engrossed in “solving” a Moriarty case.
No Plan. No Backup. No Choice.
On January - 17 - 2012
In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, a sort of American version of James Bond. In the beginning of the movie, after a short prologue, Hunt is broken out of a Russian prison by his new team.
Their next assignment is to take some intel from inside the Kremlin in Moscow. While inside they are unsuccessful, even though it looks really cool, and right after Hunt leaves the courtyard of the building, it blows up.
Sleeping is More Entertaining
On January - 11 - 2012
As you can probably tell from the title, I didn’t like Sleeping Beauty, at all. I don’t know who Jane Campion is, but I’m worried about her if she’s recommending people see this mess.
In Sleeping Beauty Emily Browning plays Lucy: a college student, barista, officer worker, prostitute that is looking for more work as a server at fetish parties. This job would also sometimes offer her the opportunity to take sedatives and let old guys rub on her while she’s sleeping.
I’m not making any of that up, that’s really what this film is about. Lucy is already a prostitute, is in college, and works two legal jobs, but can’t afford to pay her rent. That is, until she gets a job as a sort of living corpse prostitute.
She takes the sedative to sleep, then the guys go in the room while she’s sleeping and do what they want to her. The only house rule is no penetration.
Seal the Theater and Start the Movie!
On December - 3 - 2011
Immortals was a movie I was 50/50 about. I think I might have even “killed” it when we did “marry/bang/kill” on the Never Not a Nerd Show the week it came out. I saw it anyway and recorded a video review for it. Check that out below.
