Oren Peli redefined the found footage genre with his breakout directorial debut film Paranormal Activity. I remember when the movie came out, seeing it in a midnight showing in Orlando, Florida, and falling in love with the film. Though the franchise has since had its ups and downs, that original film was extremely successful in […]
Funnybooks is 250 episodes old! How do we celebrate? Well…by having another awesome episode, of course! We talk about the new Doctor Who, which leads into a conversation about our favorite method of time travel. Then…after we talk about this week’s new comics, we do a special version of What If We Were Writing…, where […]
So,I’ve always felt that LucasFilm cheated fans with Boba Fett. They created a mystique and desire for a badass bounty hunter through strategic appearances and marketing. Then “Empire Strikes Back” came out and we were presented with a man who’s greatest accomplishments are hiding in the garbage, tattling on Han Solo, and needing the Empire […]
So, the big, big thing in the Nerdiverse right now is the secrecy and excitement surrounding Star Wars Episode VII. Fans all over are eating up every breadcrumb that leaks from Bad Robot. They’re expecting this movie to live up to their expectations that have been tempered and created by such tales as The Thrawn […]
We’ve got The Purge, Halloween (not officially announced as of yet), The Walking Dead, and From Dusk Till Dawn. And last night Universal Studios dropped another huge announcement coming to this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event… More info after the jump!
If you’re going to the movies today, don’t see Snowpiercer. Don’t get me wrong…I think it was a good movie. It may even be a great one. Snowpiercer is about the last remnants of humanity, who all live aboard a specially-engineered train that protects them from the outside environment. Since a failed geo-engineering effort ended […]
So, nobody likes Skyline. When I speak to the few people I know who’ve watched it, they’re universally negative about it. And my circle of friends isn’t unique in that respect; Rotten Tomatoes lists it with a whopping 15% approval rating. It made a few “Worst Of…” lists in 2010 when it was released. One […]
I have to confess something before I talk about this movie. I didn’t see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I went in to see the movie because a friend wanted to see it and I enjoy going to the movies. I didn’t really have any expectations and hoped for something entertaining. What I […]
This episode of Ideology of Madness Actual Play features the first of our APs recorded at Fear the Con 7 in St. Louis. A warrant to serve up on The Plateau, a cult of rowdy Robo-theists to wrangle and a bug invasion to stomp all before lunch. Ain’t nobody said Rangerin’ was easy. Fortunately, the […]
The boys are back from Fear the Con, and have a ton of stuff to talk about! We get chatty about movies this week, including the new Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow, the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters II, Star Wars movie news, and the recent animated release, Son of Batman. We also talk about […]