Tag: The Pitt and the Pendulum

The 10 Best Overlooked Films of 2011

If you look carefully at the films released in 2011, aside from seeing Matt Damon in every second picture, you could find the odd--and sometimes extremely odd--cinematic masterwork.

The Not-Scars: My 10 Best Films of 2010

<p>So I was about to watch the Academy Awards the other week, when I suddenly remembered that I didn't give a shit about them. They used to be good, sure, but once a) Nicholas Cage and b) Helen Hunt have won Oscars, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduct something has gone bass-ackwards in Tinseltown.</p>

Bride of Frank-Urchin

<p>Ello, Echinoderms!</p><p>Well, I've been a Forensic Entomologist for a while, but until now have not had the opportunity to mix my scientific career with my inherent knack for maniacal super-villainy, in the way of respected colleagues such as Dr. Evil, Dr. Phibes, and Lady Gaga when she gestates in that freaky plastic egg-thing. </p>

The Book of Christmas Revelation

<p><strong>A reading from the Letter of Saint Nicholas to the Grinchians:</strong></p><p>And the Sixth Angel broke the Sixth Seal and did release strange creatures, which did solemnly look not unto like a bunch of really high people cosplaying at a Comic Con. </p>

Octopus’s Pardon

<p>Mornin', Magical Molluscs! </p><p>Well, Spain has gone home with the World Cup (<a href="/columns/andrei-trostel/men-vs-women-which-more-sexual#statue">or statue; thanks Andrei!</a>), the various team captains are chained nude in the dry well in my baseme...er, returning  to their home countries; and Paul the Psychic Octopus, who successfully predicted the winner of each and every match, has officially retired back to the bottom of the sea to spend his winnings on Aqua-whores with Ariel and Sebastian (you didn't think he was giving the stuff out for free, did you?) rather than ending up in seafood gumbo or squid ink pasta.</p>

Six Feet Blunder

<p>Ciao, Cenotaphs,</p><p>One of the disadvantages of Mortality is this whole "Death" thing. Oh sure, you might have been a race-car driving, crime-fighting playboy neurosurgeon who owned a conglomerate of carbon neutral orphanages for baby seals, but one fatal mistake and you'll be "that guy who died with the beehive up his arse." People, please try and shuffle off this mortal coil in dignified circumstances, lest you find yourselvs turning up your toes under an eternal monument like one of these...</p>

The New Face of Terror

Haley's success in the role Englund made famous got me thinking about other famous monsters throughout the years.

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