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Month: June 2014

  • Jodorowsky’s Dune

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    It’s a crime against humanity that Jodorowsky’s Dune was never made. This is an absolutely fascinating documentary – possibly the best film I’ve seen this year – and you can’t help but feel excited as Jodorowsky walks you through what the film would have been like. The whole time watching it I couldn’t help but…

  • Eighty

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    Lordy, lordy, look who’s… 80. The next edition of PauseTalk is just over a week away (happening on Monday, July 7), and not only is it the Vol. 80, but it also marks the 8th anniversary of the series. (Well, last month would have been the true anniversary, since I started it in June, but…

  • Sound City

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    I like documentaries like this, that for the most part tell a story that has happened, but then cap it by actively adding an extension to the story. It reminded me a bit of Jack White’s It Might Get Loud documentary, which I also really enjoyed. But yeah, what a great story, of this little…

  • Shut Up and Play the Hits

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    I was late getting into LCD Soundsystem. Sure, I’d heard some tracks over the years, but it was really when he announced that he was stopping the band that I took attention, and watched a stream of that final concert, and have been enjoying the albums ever since. This documentary, which is a mix of…

  • Shovel Knight

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    Imagine an NES game, but done if the NES had kept evolving a few more years. I’m having a blast playing this, and I’m doing so mostly playing it on the Wii U controller – there’s also a 3DS version, but since I play even my 3DS games at home, I figured the Wii U…

  • Snowpiercer

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    What a great piece of sci-fi, and so original. Based on a French comic, it’s the story of humanity surviving an apocalyptic occurrence by living on a train that is constantly in movement. Yeah, the setup is super weird, but it’s a really neat concept to explore, and some of the characters here are so…

  • The Punk Singer

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    This was just so great to watch. I’m a huge fan of Kathleen Hanna’s music – mostly Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin – but I didn’t really know much about the health issues she was dealing with. The film itself does a great job of telling her story, and of course, you get to…

  • Foul Play

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    I’ve been thinking of going back and watching some of the top grossers of the 80s, year by year, and as I was coming up with titles for 1980, a couple of friends suggested I go back to this movie, which came out in 1978. It was pretty fun to watch, and wow, what a…

  • Legion

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    This is not a good movie. Since I enjoyed the pilot for the sequel series, Dominion, I figured I’d finally give this movie a try. It’s actually interesting to see that they’ve come up with a cool concept for a TV show, but the movie that inspired is just boring and lifeless. It takes so…

  • Resident Evil Revelations

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    I picked this up on 3DS last week because it was on sale for $10, and I’m sure glad I did. I have a hit-and-miss relationship with the series: I have fond memories of playing the first one, and maybe a bit of the second one, the last one I really enjoyed playing was Code…