This October, Deadshirt staff revisits some of our favorite horror movies from a variety of subgenres and breaks down what makes them so memorable, so clever, and so terrifying. This week: The mother of all haunted house movies, The Haunting. I’ve been a fan Read More …
If you know me, you know that I love Nicolas Cage movies. The dazzling highs (Raising Arizona will never get its due in the Coen Brothers canon), the fascinating middles (Vampire’s Kiss!) and the blistering lows. And while Cage makes a pretty steady stream of bad Read More …
David Fincher is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of the modern era, and while I’ve always considered myself a fan of his work, it’s only recently that I’ve begun to understand why. I’ve loved Se7en, Fight Club and The Game for years but often Read More …
This October, Deadshirt staff revisits some of our favorite horror movies from a variety of subgenres and breaks down what makes them so memorable, so clever, and so terrifying. First up: the tongue-in-cheek zombie flick Night of the Comet. The quickest way to describe 1984’s Night Read More …
Jack Plotnik’s vision of mundane human life in an unrealized Buck Rogers’ style future, Space Station 76, is a weird creature, no two ways about it. The film, which premiered at SXSW this year, was based on a stage play of the same name and Read More …
Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Read More …
We at Deadshirt like to fancy ourselves pretty dedicated to popular culture with a combined knowledge of all things media that borders on the encyclopedic, but no one is perfect. There’s just too much music, too many films, too many comics, and way too many Read More …
Well before every dingus with a webcam had a “web series” where they reviewed things as a character, there was the Angry Video Game Nerd. To this day, the Nerd (James Rolfe) is one of the more consistent personalities on the internet, and one of Read More …
In the second installment of director Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s comics, slick visuals reign as the streamlined glory of the first film is muddied by a jumbled storyline. Its release delayed for nearly a year, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For flickers across the silver Read More …
When celebrities of any sort pass away, we have a tendency to react in two divergent ways. One: we maybe connect ourselves to these complete strangers we never knew on a personal basis, over-identifying with their death and perhaps perpetuating the ongoing cult of fame Read More …