THE CARRYING ON OF A WAYWARD SON

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127 Hours - There's no freaking way I'm cutting my arm off

I watched 127 HOURS last night for the first time since the film was released in 2010 and, let me tell you, the film holds up stronger...

Robert Saucedo

Oct 26, 20203 min read

Have your very own Graveyard Fest

This weekend, last year, the Alamo Drafthouse LaCenterra hosted Graveyard Fest, a four-day horror film festival. While a 2020 version of...

Robert Saucedo

Oct 16, 20208 min read

Ten Weird Movie Recommendations

ASSASSIN 33 A.D. (2020) Religious conservatives like to claim that heavy metal music and stuff like HARRY POTTER are tools from the devil...

Robert Saucedo

Oct 15, 20207 min read

Ten Horror Movie Recomendations

VIY (1967) In this Soviet adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's story of the same name, a young priest is tasked with watching over the body of a...

Robert Saucedo

Oct 14, 20206 min read

Are films disposable?

It was announced today that Paramount has sold COMING TO AMERICA 2 (COMING 2 AMERICA?) to Amazon. The streaming platform will release the...

Robert Saucedo

Oct 13, 20204 min read

SHOOT 'EM UP is a perfect movie

This article was originally published at Birth. Movies. Death on April 19, 2017. A few months after this article was published, I hosted...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 25, 20203 min read

Wanna Hear A Scary Story?

One summer, when I was a child, my father scared the shit out of me. We were on a Cub Scout camping trip. The day had been filled with...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 18, 20205 min read

ROBOT JOX - The Best Damn Robot Movie There Ever Was

ROBOT JOX is a movie scientifically engineered to appeal to the eight-year-old boy that exists in all of us. This part of our personality...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 16, 20202 min read

What This Week's Superhero News Means for The Future of Movies

It’s a scary place out there right now in the theatrical exhibition landscape. Films are leaving the fall schedule, movies that theaters...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 15, 20203 min read

A Not So Brief History of Graveyard Shift

I started working for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in March 2011. I spent months trying to convince the Houston franchise to hire me in...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 14, 202026 min read

CONSTANTINE is good, actually

Let’s get something out of the way first – with its talk about the deportation of illegal entities and a sub-plot about a...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 12, 20206 min read

The Man Who Killed Bigfoot

I'm a big fan of Bigfoot and everything he represents. I don't necessarily believe in Bigfoot but I want to believe in a world where...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 10, 202011 min read

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Is The Key To Understand Why Tim Burton Makes So Many Remakes

I watched THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI for the first time recently. It's a fantastic film, as promised, but I couldn't help but wonder...

Robert Saucedo

Sep 9, 20204 min read

Podcasts I'm Listening To: You Must Remember This

Since March, I have walked five miles a day, six days out of the week. That’s a lot of walking. During these daily two-hour hikes, I have...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 30, 20203 min read

There's Nothing Wrong With Being Nice

Armando Iannucci could teach classes about being mean. Don't get me wrong - I'm sure that Iannucci, in real life, is a very pleasant man...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 30, 20205 min read

Tarkovsky's STALKER and death

I watched Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER last night for the first time. The 1979 Soviet science fiction film was, as promised, a beautiful,...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 25, 20205 min read

A Tale of Two Shit-Kicking Werewolf Movies

I love werewolf movies. I love the American Southwest. Do I love werewolf movies set in the American Southwest? Do cowboys keep extra...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 24, 20206 min read

Hollywood: Please greenlight more anthologies

I have this thing I do where I save movies, books, or albums from artists I love. One day Stephen King will pass away and there won't be...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 23, 20204 min read

Why home invasion movies scare the shit out of me

Last night I watched Mike Flanagan's HUSH for the first time. There are few directors that have spent the last decade as productively as...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 21, 20207 min read

James Gunn's SUPER is the movie I need right now

It's a scary world out there right now and anxiety is at an all-time high for all of us. It's understandable that people are looking for...

Robert Saucedo

Aug 20, 20203 min read

THE CARRYING ON OF A WAYWARD SON

Where Wolf

A serialized werewolf comedy

Film Thoughts

Reviews and more

Essays

Writings, not vatos

127 Hours - There's no freaking way I'm cutting my arm off

Have your very own Graveyard Fest

Ten Weird Movie Recommendations

Ten Horror Movie Recomendations

Are films disposable?

SHOOT 'EM UP is a perfect movie

Wanna Hear A Scary Story?

ROBOT JOX - The Best Damn Robot Movie There Ever Was

What This Week's Superhero News Means for The Future of Movies

A Not So Brief History of Graveyard Shift

CONSTANTINE is good, actually

The Man Who Killed Bigfoot

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Is The Key To Understand Why Tim Burton Makes So Many Remakes

Podcasts I'm Listening To: You Must Remember This

There's Nothing Wrong With Being Nice

Tarkovsky's STALKER and death

A Tale of Two Shit-Kicking Werewolf Movies

Hollywood: Please greenlight more anthologies

Why home invasion movies scare the shit out of me

James Gunn's SUPER is the movie I need right now

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