Pendeja Diaries: Twenty-nine and Doin’ Fine
Today is my birthday. Like a scene out of The Office. I went through my quarter life crisis right before turning 24. Ever since then, I’ve realized that I take the time around my birthday to reflect about my life. Some people use New Years as a time for resolutions,...
AVENGERS: ENDGAME Review
***THIS WILL BE A FULL SPOILER REVIEW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED*** There was more than one or two moments while watching Avengers Endgame, that I stepped outside of myself for a moment. like Dr Strange in front of the Ancient One, (or the Hulk briefly in this film) I had...
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Travel Logs: Atlanta Day 3
We spent most of the morning trying to fix the toilet in the Airbnb. One of they guys had clogged the thing the previous morning and we had tried everything short of calling a plumber to fix it. 24 hours later and the damn thing still wouldn't flush. We decided we...
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First Teaser Trailer for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
Star Wars celebration kicked off Friday morning, with the eagerly anticipated Star Wars Episode IX panel/presentation, and it didn’t disappoint. It began with Kathleen Kennedy and JJ Abrams (with surprise guest-host Stephen Colbert), talking about the responsibility...
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Travel Logs: Atlanta Day 2
A Perfect Rainy Day My dream vacation involves a trip to New Zealand to take a 9 day underwater photography course to swim with humpback whales. Every year humpback whales gather off the coast as part of their annual migration. You can sign up for this tour...
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME Review
***THIS WILL BE A FULL SPOILER REVIEW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED*** There was more than one or two moments while watching Avengers Endgame, that I stepped outside of myself for a moment. like Dr Strange in front of the Ancient One, (or the Hulk briefly in this film) I had...
Brent’s Top 10 Movies of 2018
If you’ve been following me on social media for a while, then you know that every year I rank my favorite movies. This is actually the 10TH YEAR I'm doing so (man, we're all getting old). I started by making tacky photo-shopped images with my favorites back in 2009,...
‘Upgrade’ Review
As I try to remind myself every year, the best movies I'm likely to see are ones I hadn't even heard of beforehand. The movies that sneak up on you and smack you upside the head with surprise and startling originality. Upgrade is one of the first movies to do that for...
Top 10 Movies of 2017
Another year is behind us, so that means it’s time for everyone’s ‘my favorite ________ of 2017’ lists. This year, I’m folding to peer pressure and changing the ‘top 8’ favorite movies to ‘top 10’ because honestly, there were too many awesome movies and I originally...
Fall 2017 Update!
Hey, this blog still exists! It’s been about half a year since I’ve written anything up, and it’s been a bussyyyyy time in my life. Got married, started a new position and found out I’m going to be a father next spring! Amidst all of those changes, I’ve still somehow...
Get Out
It seems like every year in recent memory, there’s been another great new horror release from a first time director, and 2017 is no different. Last year I wrote about ‘The Witch’ from Robert Eggers and previously there was 'The Babadook’ and 'It Follows’. We’re...