Some folks may've heard that both the US and UK incarnations of Tartan Films had closed their doors, leaving us bereft of many future foreign film releases. I've been the main reviewer of Tartan US releases on DVDActive.com for some time now, and even got my… Continue reading →
So I've been taking some time off from real work and fake work to spend time with my girlfriend, who's about to be shipped off to Japan for a year. I've decided that not updating this blog for three weeks would be a bad idea, so I've come up with a little… Continue reading →
I've never been to a convention of this size, and with less then a day to prepare myself, I was very over stimulated. As stated in my previous blog, I went to Chicago last weekend with the intent of attending the Flashback Weekend horror mini-con, which has… Continue reading →
So I took off Friday afternoon, spent the night in Madison with friends, and arrived in Chicago (technically Rosemont) around 11pm (which, just so you know, is two hours earlier then I usually wake up). This year was the busiest, but there were also fewer… Continue reading →
On Friday I'll be driving from St. Paul, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois (with an overnight stop in Madison) to attend the 4th Annual Flashback Weekend horror convention. This year's guests include the casts and crews of the original Night of the Living Dead… Continue reading →
I've had a rather tenacious case of insomnia the last few months, so I've been culling though my animation collection. A few weeks ago I finished watching every episode of Batman: The Animated Series, and I've moved on now to The Justice League. I'm… Continue reading →
My father visited me yesterday. He drove from Tucson to Yellowstone, then over to me in the Twin Cities on the way to visit relatives in Milwaukee. In tow was his wife and other son, his second family, which wasn't made until I was already an adult, which has… Continue reading →
The second I heard that Marvel was going to more or less ignore Ang Lee's Hulk I was upset. When I read press interviews and noticed the new film's creators and producers were either making fun of Lee's film or pretending it didn't exist, I got a little… Continue reading →
There's some unwritten code of ethics concerning the proper way to speak about cancer, and it especially pertains to the guy who either has or had it. Apparently I'm not allowed to talk about this really big part of the last six years of my life with people I… Continue reading →
A modern and mainstream horror film is guaranteed to attempt the execution of at least one jump scare. Like any other creative endeavor, it's more or less impossible to come up with an original way of doing this, especially considering the sheer quantity of… Continue reading →
I'm the guy at DVDActive.com that gets all of Lionsgate DVD and Blu-Ray discs for review. And let me be clear that when I say all of them, I really mean all of them, despite the fact that I've sent several E-Mails stating that I have no want or time to review… Continue reading →
I've found myself increasingly frustrated and obsessed with this incredibly addictive video game lately. When I play I end up losing something like 30 times to 1, and I get generally nothing for a win, but my obsessive-compulsive nature keeps me coming back,… Continue reading →