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It’s the Booze Talkin’: Hey Platinum Dunes, leave the Halloween franchise alone!

Posted 14 years ago

Platinum Dunes have made a name for themselves in the horror community as the “Remake Kings” – a name not given because they’re the king of producing top quality remakes, but one given because that’s literally all they do: the...

It’s the Booze Talking: Abraham Lincoln, Lamest Looking Movie of the Year

Posted 14 years ago

The latest craze in horror fiction seems to be the twist on contemporary classics, throwing zombies or vampires or what-have-yous into settings where zombies or vampires (or what-have-yous) simply shouldn’t exist. From PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES to SENSE AND...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Will Piranha 3DD Be the Best Sequel Ever???

Posted 14 years ago

The summer of 2010 was a good one, in terms of movies. Not only did we have the action movie fifefest known as THE EXPENDABLES, but we also got a little horror movie exploiting the 3D gimmick with PIRANHA 3D....

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Can movies based on board games and theme park rides please go away?

Posted 14 years ago

Back in the olden days, it was movies based on cartoons that really threw people for a loop—stuff like TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, based mostly on the Saturday morning cartoon (and a bit on the comic) really made people question...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Move over EX2, The Tomb is coming!

Posted 14 years ago

One of the best cinematic moments of 2010 happened when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis all shared the big screen together in THE EXPENDABLES, even if it was less than 5 minutes long and featured zero action—having the...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Stories of alleged fainting at screenings are bullshit!

Posted 14 years ago

In the early 1950s and through the 1960s, William Castle and his counterparts in schlocky cinema had to think of gimmicks to get people in the theater to see their movies. The theater experience had to be spiced up to...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Wait for David Fincher before doing the rest of the Dragon Tattoo series

Posted 14 years ago

I’m a big fan of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as the rest of the Millennium series (The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) as they’re entertaining reads,...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Here are the flicks I’m looking forward to most in 2012

Posted 14 years ago

Nothing cures the post-New Year’s party hangover like a Miller High Life, and by golly, that’s what I’ve been doing ever since the 2012 ball dropped. Because I don’t like to get all nostalgic and sentimental and shit, I’m looking...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: All I want for X-Mas are original horror movies!

Posted 14 years ago

I love the holidays. Sitting in front of my Yuletide Log DVD roaring on my TV, drinking Brandy-spiked Egg Nog, and thinking of all the glorious Blu-rays I may have waiting for me wrapped under the tree. Most years I’m...

IT’S THE BOOZE TALKIN’: Season 2 of The Walking Dead was zombie weaksauce

Posted 14 years ago

During the night of Halloween 2010, something magical and unexpected happened: AMC aired a zombie show that managed to put a twist on the extremely tired zombie genre and make it awesome. Based on a graphic novel series that I’ve...

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