Author: Brando Quiring
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Brando’s Two Days of Killmas
Brando looks at two holiday movies that show you that no matter how bad your family time is going, things can always get much worse. Christmas is a time of family and togetherness, when we close out the year by spending time with the people we love and watching great, classic Christmas specials from our…
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The Super Nintendo Classic Mini
In the wake of the release of the mini Classic NES Console, Brando wonders, why not do the same thing for the classic Super Nintendo? Every year, there is that one item that makes its way onto every kid’s Christmas list, and they become very difficult to find. This year, I think it’s some kind…
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Blair Witch
Brando’s anger at Blair Witch is so pronounced that he can’t help wandering into some spoilery woods, so be warned — there be spoilers here! The Blair Witch Project was a trail blazing movie, not only for horror but for movies in general, as it helped popularize the “found footage” style of movie making that…
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X-Men: The Animated Series
Some of the best animated series came out in the 90s, from Batman to Spider-man. We look at the shiny, but often adult X-Men cartoon. I remember watching the 90s X-Men cartoon every Saturday morning and it always stuck with me, but I could never really figure out why. When I spotted it on Netflix…
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Jaws: Blockbusters and Bad Sequels
Jaws was one of the first templates for the international summer movie, but how much did the increasingly insipid sequel cash ins inspire today’s blockbusters? The world of popular cinema is stuffed with sequels and remakes, reboots, rehashes, and retreads. Nowhere is this more true than in the summer time when the studios will resurrect…
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Ava’s Possessions
What happens to your life after you’ve been possessed by evil demons and carried out a murderous rampage? Ava’s Possessions aims to answer that question. Have you ever watched a movie where someone is possessed by a demon and then they run amok all over town, eating people, having sex with hookers and generally spreading…
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Suspiria
Brando’s a horror fan, yet he hadn’t seen Dario Argento’s classic film, Suspiria. He gives it a go to see if it deserves the hype. I was reading an article about cult horror movies I “have to see before I die,” nine of the top ten living happily in my movie collection. The tenth was…
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Thinkin’ Bout That New Ghostbusters
Should The Ghostbusters have been a reboot or a sequel? Who ya gonna call when things aren’t as inclusive as they want us to believe? Ghostbusters needs to be a sequel and not a remake. Hollywood has been uncreative with a lot of its stuff lately, with streams of remakes and sequels bursting forth like…
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The Final Fantasy VII Remake
Brando looks ahead to the remake of Final Fantasy 7. But are they ruining what could be a gamer’s dream with their money grabbing schtick? In the Fall of 2015, the fondest wish of gamers all over the world was finally granted as the console RPG giant called Square-Enix announced the remake of one of…
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I Spit on Your Grave and Unnecessary Sequels
How about a couple of unnecessary sequels to a totally unnecessary reboot? Is there anything worth watching in the I Spit on Your Grave franchise? In the world of unnecessary sequels there are two types of films: the first are the ones that you watch and end up hating yourself for wasting your time watching…