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Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Daa Daa dadadaDaaa Daa If there’s one thing you can count on Star Wars delivering even in the most … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 21: The Music
How does a film where Denzel Washington is a rogue and imprisoned cop with a metal arm and Russell Crowe is a psychopathic AI residing in a silicon-based body not fully capitalize on either premise? How does a pseudo-tech noir … Continue reading Scene Dissections: A Scene-Eating Crowe
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! In a franchise with a huge list of characters bound to be some less fondly remembered than others, and … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 20: The Worst Character
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Even if Star Wars is not necessarily known for its action choreography, there’s no shortage of showstopper action scenes … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 19: Best Action / Setpiece
WTF ASIA’s first Mongolian film forms the second part of the unofficial Dead Father Trilogy. No, the son does not seek vengeance. Available in Australia, Canada, the United States, and perhaps a few other countries. Approximately 115 minutes. I cannot guarantee that these are not … Continue reading WTF ASIA 213: Passer By (2017)
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Today’s prompt is dedicated to all the nuts and bolts that make up the Star Wars universe. Not the … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 18: Worldbuilding & Aesthetics
An essential part of any space-faring Sci-Fi story is coming up with some cool-looking spacecraft, and from small fighters to imposing dreadnaughts, Star Wars – and its many associated LEGO sets- have you covered. Which of these interstellar transportation devices … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 17: Starships!
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic? When I watched … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/17)
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Over this challenge, we’ve focused on the main OT trio, the Jedi at large, baddies, the aliens, and droids. … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 16: Favorite Characters!
Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, David Lee Roth, and … INXS? Continue reading Old Music Monthly #(-078) [February 1987]
The latest weekend of the summer movie season is underway and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness held onto the top spot in the face of zero competition. The film had a pretty deep dip overall from the first weekend but … Continue reading Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Wins The May 13th Weekend Box Office Weekend
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Star Wars have a long and iconic list of robotic creations, starting all the way at the dawn of … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 15: Droids!
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! From the tiny Ewoks to the mighty rancors and all sorts of crazy stuff in the novels, the Star … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 14: Aliens!
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! If you have heroes you have to have villains, and Star Wars has arguably some of the most iconic … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 13: Sith & Villainy
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Star Wars is at its core largely a story about the Jedi, and their rise and fall. An order … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 12: We Need To Discuss The Jedi
Til Death Do All Relatives Reluctantly Gather Together. Available in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and perhaps a few other countries. Approximately 113 minutes. We start in the house of Ramprasad and Savitri Bhargava. It is pretty large and pretty quiet, but it … Continue reading WTF ASIA 212: Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019)
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! With today’s focus, we’re going into the world of novels and comics. While most people live solely by the … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 11: Novels & Comics
In the not-too-distant future of 8 PM ET tonight, the Mad Scientists from Mystery Science Theater 3000, aka “The Mads,” aka Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, will mercilessly mock a classic MST movie, The Head That Wouldn’t Die. Tickets are … Continue reading The Mads Are Back Riff-Along Thread
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! Desert planets! City planets! Cloud cities! Casino cities! More desert planets! Star Wars is host to a lot of … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 10: Planets & Places
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic? Last week, we … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/10)
Thanks to Mr. Ixolite for the prompts as we hit this special Star Wars month! May the Fourth Be With You! The last member of the protagonist trio is, of course, Han Solo, who as originally played by Harrison Ford … Continue reading 30 Day Star Wars Challenge Day 9: We Need To Talk About Han
