Halloween Flick: Odd Thomas

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 22, 2015

Yes, it’s October, I’m still posting about all things spooky, creepy, and otherwise Halloween-y. In this case, it’s another Netflix film that was panned by many critics: Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin (Chekhov in the Star Trek reboot) and Willem Defoe, directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy), based on a Dean Koontz novel of the […]

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Forget the Hoverboards – I want Mr. Fusion

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 21, 2015

Okay, it’s kind of a dumb meme going around, but I’ll bite. After all, it’s a one-time event for those of us who are children of the 80s. Today was the day in the future that Marty McFly traveled to from 1985 in Back to the Future II (released in 1989). The vision of 2015 […]

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Can’t Blog – I’m a Kid Again

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 20, 2015

Yeah. It’s Monday night, and I’m supposed to be writing this blog post. Not much is occurring to me, because I’m like 10 years old again, and watching this about a dozen times:     Admit it, you did too. Well, okay, most of you. I’m still cautious, because I remember the heartbreak of the […]

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Halloween Film Impressions: Haunter

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 12, 2015

We’ve been so swamped so far this month that even taking time to watch a film together has been a challenge. Typically we end up watching something on Netflix Instant Play, which is pretty decent for watching TV (a season behind), but not so great for movies. Too many of the films available for streaming […]

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Kickstarter – Mythica 3: The Necromancer

Posted by Rampant Coyote on September 10, 2015

Mythica 3: The Necromancer is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. I understand they’ve already begun building sets for filming the 4th and 5th Mythica movies. I think it’s safe to assume the first two were successful. I liked the first one the best, I think, although I have to admit the effects on the second seemed better. […]

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Fictional Firearms: Ten Pet Peeves

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 28, 2015

I finally got around to reading Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International, the first of his best-selling series. I enjoyed it a great deal, and I understand the series gets significantly better from there. (Hey, Jim Butcher’s first couple of Dresden novels were a little on the rough side, too).  The story doesn’t shy away from some […]

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Teasing Us From a Long, Long, Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far, Far Away…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 17, 2015

Well. I wanna be skeptical. I want to be unbiased. I’ve been burned. We all have. Many times. But… but…. Okay, there’s a very slim chance that maybe, MAYBE you may be here and not know what I’m talking about. This was just released:   I think anything I’m about to say is just joining […]

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The Awards Problem

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 6, 2015

At the Academy Awards in 2014, two of the voters for the film that one Best Picture admitted later that they’d never actually watched the film. They thought they’d have been “disturbed” by it, but voted for it anyway because of its presumed “social relevance.” I suspect that this happens a lot, but it was […]

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Mythica 2 – Kickstarter Kicking Off

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 31, 2015

You know how they are trying to make a big deal about how crowdfunding like Kickstarter shouldn’t be treated as a pre-order? While that’s always good advice, here’s one that’s pretty much the closest thing you are gonna get. I wrote a few weeks ago about Mythica: A Quest for Heroes. The bottom line is […]

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In Defense of Big Media…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 25, 2015

Yes, I take my potshots at AAA. I’ve been there. Kinda. And I’ve seen where it’s been going. But my ripping on the games coming out of the big publishers are due to their origin – designed (or at least constraints imposed on design) by committees and suits for minimum risk and maximum Return-on-Investment, with […]

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Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 3, 2015

Back in the early-to-mid 80s, there were rumors of a Dungeons & Dragons movie. D&D was a weird fad, so of course Hollywood was investigating the possibility of making a movie out of it. And of course, Hollywood investigating (or even buying the movie rights) means very little. We geeky kids were disappointed that while […]

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Dark Dungeons: The Movie Takes Us Into Dark Imaginations…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 25, 2014

When I was a kid and first starting to get into Dungeons & Dragons, it was riding a double wave of fad-like popularity and backlash from certain quarters for being dangerous or downright evil – which only added to its popularity. While I didn’t face too much direct opposition from authority-types over playing the game, […]

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Fantasy Films to Fund, if Favored…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 13, 2014

Necromancers, Dragons, and Godzilla, oh my! Once again I violate my rule about posting Kickstarter campaigns here…  Well, okay, it’s more of a guideline than a rule. An intention, maybe. A fuzzy goal? Well, whatever, my usual warnings apply… they may not ever deliver on their promise, participate at your own risk, etc. In this […]

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Movie: Knights of Badassdom

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 24, 2014

Knights of Badassdom is a horror / comedy movie about LARPers (Live Action Role-Players), featuring Ryan Kwanten, Summer Glau, Peter Dinklage, and Steve Zahn. I’d been following it for a while, during it’s seemingly unending quest for distribution. Like most indie movies – especially those not trying to be controversial or artsy-fartsy – it experienced […]

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The secret of level thirteen…

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 7, 2014

I just discovered this over the weekend. It’s one part of those ‘movies’ of the 1980s which were actually three or more stand-alone short films. This one was apparently entitled “Nightmares,” and the segment was called, “The Bishop of Battle.” Young Emilio Estevez stars as a video game hustler in the apparently thriving practice of […]

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The Reward

Posted by Rampant Coyote on March 3, 2014

Apparently my wife and my daughter knew about this short film *months* ago, but didn’t bother to share it with me. I am saddened. Warning, it is not entirely safe for work. Another warning – be sure and watch to the end of the credits. The Reward from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.

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