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Month: September 2020

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Robocop and The Wire aren’t too different, you and I: How each deals with the dark side of The American Dream, and the collapse of city governance.

Dan Harmon is right. A film lazily titled “Robocop” should be a disaster. A forgettable B-film that is best for Mystery Science Theatre 3000. But that’s not what happened, and here we are. Re-watching (more…)

Posted on 21 September, 202011 November, 2020 By Uncle Fishbits
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Going from sanity to being locked into the subjectivity of existence, a note from the movie Annihilation.

In researching Annihilation, Alex Garland’s (yes) masterpiece (and one of my favorite films of all time), I am also taken with how the film could hit different now vs its release, simply because so much (more…)

Posted on 16 September, 202016 September, 2020 By Uncle Fishbits
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Top 10 video games in Uncle Fishbits’ history, no particular order with some nice honorable mention nostalgia

1) Half-Life:Alyx (VR) 2) Alien: Isolation (VR) 3) Metroid (NES) 4) Goldeneye (N64) 5) Mariokart (Super Nintendo, N64) 6) Zelda (NES) & Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) 7) (more…)

Posted on 2 September, 20202 September, 2020 By Uncle Fishbits
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A fantastic list of movies that earned a 0% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and some real “so bad they’re good” gems in here.

https://www.looper.com/1145/movies-earned-0-rating-rotten-tomatoes/ It’s a long list, but some take me back to that golden age of seeing films. I must have gone to the theatre weekly, for sure, because (more…)

Posted on 1 September, 20201 September, 2020 By Uncle Fishbits

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