This week’s IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! brought to you by a generous donation by Benjamin Axel Jakobsson. Thank you for your support! [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/crash.mp3] When Hubilub asked me to review Paul Haggis’ Crash from 2005, he did so in the following charming fashion: It won three Oscars and IT’S FUCKING HORRIBLE!. I hate it so much!… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Crash
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IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Pulp Fiction
(Audio’s got a little something extra in it this week.) [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/p_fiction.mp3] I wasn’t planning on starting a Tarantino series. Really, I wasn’t! However, there was a snafu at my local Netflix distribution center, and Crash ended up arriving at the same time as Pulp Fiction. Having just watched Reservoir Dogs last week, and waiting to… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Pulp Fiction
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Reservoir Dogs
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/r_dogs.mp3] Every now and again, when you start taking on work as a critic, it’s beneficial to remind yourself of what’s good in your chosen medium and why it’s worth defending. It’s why I’ve been playing Half-Life 2 again lately. That’s also the reason why Reservoir Dogs was bumped to the top of my Netflix… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Reservoir Dogs
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Pokémon 3
This week’s IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! brought to you by a generous donation by Rachel Kraft. Thank you for your support! [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/pokemon.mp3] I went into this knowing I’m probably not the right audience for the film. I’m not an adolescent and my brain is, as far as I can tell, relatively intact and undamaged. However,… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Pokémon 3
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Inglorious Basterds
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/basterds.mp3] The 2010 Academy Awards are a fading memory. By now most of the Internet has moved on to more interesting things, like porn stars playing D&D. However, if I might indulge your attention for a few minutes, I’d like to discuss one of the films that was in contention for best of the year.… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Inglorious Basterds
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Jumper
This week’s IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! brought to you by a generous donation by Amanda d’Adesky. Thank you for your support! [audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/jumper.mp3] Jumper is an existential treatise on the nature of the conjectural power of teleportation. The schizophrenic, random nature of the story is paired with a tendency towards awkward shot composition, layered with somewhat… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Jumper
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/gamers.mp3] Currently, the prevailing definition of the word “gamer” is “someone who plays video games.” However, the label has an older connotation. For years, gamers were people who populated the tables of college dorm basements, comic store back rooms and Mom’s dining room, one of them hunched behind a screen describing unspeakable horrors while the… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! The Gamers: Dorkness Rising
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Wanted
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/wanted.mp3] I think it’s safe to say that just about anything can be adapted into a film. Even in this little obscure corner of the Internet, quite a few adaptations have been reviewed as they’ve passed through my mailbox or browser. Starship Troopers is the adaptation of a novel. The Mutant Chronicles adapted a tabletop… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Wanted
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Sneakers
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/sneakers.mp3] If some of the screenwriters and directors in Hollywood are to be believed, computers are magical devices. Hook yours up to a wall socket, type really fast, and hey presto, the Pentagon’s your bitch. Some hackers out there are so good they can do this while being held at gunpoint, or shall we say… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Sneakers
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Starship Troopers
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/starship_troopers.mp3] I’m not going to mince words. Robert Heinlein is the reason I got interested in writing fiction. Granted, it was his novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls that started the wheels turning in my head, but Starship Troopers was also evocative and fascinating to the nascent mind of this young writer twenty years… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Starship Troopers
