It looks like Desperate Housewives is ending after this season. I love that show, but it’s probably for the best. It’s pretty much run its course.
Archive for August, 2011
Desperate Housewives to End
Posted in Television, tagged abc television, desperate housewives, Desperate Housewives ending, Desperate Housewives ending 2012, Desperate Housewives final season, Eva Longoria, television, Teri Hatcher on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SIFF Saves Seattle’s Uptown Theater
Posted in Cinemas, Seattle Cinemas, tagged Queen Anne Uptown Theater, Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle Uptown Theater, SIFF, SIFF reopening Uptown, Uptown Theater on August 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This just in via my (real-life) pal @jspeights on twitter: Seattle International Film Festival is re-opening the Uptown Theater in Queen Anne as an art house in October. Very good news for Seattle film lovers!
Sharktopus! Cannibal Holocaust!
Posted in horror movies, movies, wtf, tagged B-movies, blair witch project, cannibal holocaust, found-footage films, found-footage horror, horror movies, monster movies, Movies, roger corman, shark attacks, shark week, sharks, sharktopus on August 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
By far the most fun movie I’ve seen this summer is Sharktopus.
Granted, I really haven’t seen many movies this summer. I’ve mostly just been hanging out with friends, going out to lunch, and fighting with this young-adult paranormal romance I’ve been writing since January (the book is winning the fight, by the way).
As you know, I have to see EVERY horror movie known to man, so I did see an interesting one a few months ago: Cannibal Holocaust. Made in 1980, I think it was the first “found footage” film and an obvious influence on Blair Witch Project, which didn’t come along until 20 years later.
The premise is that a documentary crew goes into the jungle to film cannibals and, well, their footage is found a year later. The movie is notorious for not only its stark brutality, but also for the fact that several animals were actually killed on camera.
I am not necessarily recommending this film, because if it’s something you’d like, you’ve probably already seen it and I don’t want to be responsible for traumatizing any of you.
Also, the acting by the people who find the footage and watch it to see what happened to the crew is laughably bad. They give “who farted” looks while watching reel after reel of acts that are absolutely horrifying.
