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I'm gonna switch gears from my usual posts as of late and NOT talk about a scary movie this time! Instead we are going to talk about the majesty that is Kick-Ass 2! THIS WILL INCLUDE SPOILERS! GO SEE THIS MOVIE!! Ok so critics are not raving about this film. They say that it is a dumbed down red-headed step child compared to the first installment and who is to tell a professional film critic that they're wrong? I am, that's who. Sure, the first time we saw Kick-Ass on the silver screen, we were shocked and amazed by the brutality and gall and downright in-your-face rudeness of it. by that point, we had gotten the full spectrum of comic book movies from the silliness of the Tobey Macguire Spider-Man trilogy to the straight forward see of Watchmen. Kick-Ass kicked it up to a whole different level by tagging an R-rating onto a brightly colored superhero story. Granted, they wouldn't have been able to make that story any good without the rough language and gratuitous vi

If you've seen one scary haunted house ghost movie, you've seen em all. Right? Scary movies, as of late, have been... waning. Let's face it. "Insidious" was just downright goofy. Did I spy Darth Maul torturing some guy's reflection? The closest thing we've gotten was "A Haunting in Connecticut" and even that one pulled its punches. Now I saw "Mama" twice in theaters but that was more artsy and wasn't really trying for the massive scares that this genre has been lacking as a whole. Not since the old classics like "Poltergeist",  "The Shining" and "The Exorcist" have ghost movies been truly terrifying. How do you fix a problem? Add realism. I don't know how many of you are huge dorks like me, but when something interests me, I dig into it. I do personal research on the subject until I know as much as I can about it. I first learned of the Warrens through a series of documentaries on History or one o

So here it comes. We all knew it was coming. The official IBA review of Evil Dead. SPOILERS AHEAD! You have been warned. Now, there is nothing like the Evil Dead. And THAT was nothing like the Evil Dead. I first heard that this movie was being made back last fall and I was immediately on board. I didn't know anything about it besides the fact that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell were going to be consultants/producers for it. I had heard several different things about it being a Army of Darkness sequel or as a reboot of the series or as a straight up remake of Evil Dead 2. But regardless, I was excited. I mean, everything else that has come out of this franchise has been absolute gold. Both ED movies, AoD, and especially the musical! Gold. Every one of them. So how could they screw this up? I don't know how they pulled it off, but they did. If this movie were titled something different and had no connections to Evil Dead, it would have been a passable horror film. Instead,

Welcome, friends, to Irrelevant But Awesome's coverage of the 85th Academy Awards. As you all can tell by the tag, I am Dr. Chris and I will be your wonderful host (my condolences to those that were expecting me to have a bunch of funny voices like Seth MacFarlane, I also don't do Jazz). This is probably going to be quite a long post just simply with predictions so I'm planning on just talking about the major awards and speaking only, for the most part, to the movies I've actually seen. Best Picture: Amour - One of the films I haven't seen but mostly due to my own ignorance and only watching what interested me. Obviously this will probably win Best Foreign Film because it's the only foreign language movie in this category. From what I understand it's about an elderly couple coping with declining health, specifically that of the wife, who suffers a stroke. Doesn't sound like a bad movie but it doesn't sound too uplifting either...or like it

Here we go again with the zombies. I know, I know. It's just what I do. Here be SPOILERS if you care about such things. Went and saw Warm Bodies  this afternoon. It was really quite good! I saw the trailer about a month and a half ago and thought it looked weird. I did some research and found it was based on a book. So I found the book and read it cover to cover. It was a really strange book. The pacing was a little slow at times. The narrative was simple for the most part but had some complicated subplots that never really got resolved. Here's the gist: The zombie apocalypse is long over and the humans are trying to regain their feet while holed up in an old sports complex/stadium. The zombies have hives everywhere that are all but run by what they call "bonies". The bonies are what zombies turn into after a long time of being a zombie and it is implied that the whole zombie plague was of alien origin. The bonies are hyper-intelligent and form a sort of twisted