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Havoc; no…just don’t
November 29, 2005 Rated R 94 minutes Barbara Kopple Media 8 Entertainment Crime Drama Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Freddy Rodriguez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2 out of 5 Stars, acting is okay but the the story is intensely bland R...
Panda-Rex’s Top 3 John Carpenter Movies
John Carpenter was part of the first wave of Directors who had a heavy influence from previous movies, creating a style that could be described by their own name. Carpenter’s works are up there with the likes Kubrick, W...
New Ambitions in Gore Cinema; The ABC’s of Death
Most people, if they aren’t complete schmoes, know that the best parts of horror flicks are the over the top gore and finding new and creative ways to slaughter the innocent without getting a smudge on your permanent reco...
Music Panda-Rex is stoked about: The Strokes Comedown Machine drops March 26
Back in the, in the year 2001…never has a single sentence made me feel like an old bastard, but I digress. In the foul year of 2001, I remember my first glimpse of one of the bands that would become a staple in my music l...
Panda-Rex’s B-Movie Vault: Dario Argento’s Suspiria
February 1977 unrated 98 minutes Dario Argento Seda Spettacolli Horror/ Slasher movie Jessica Harper, Stefania Cassini, Flavio Bucci 5 out of 5, Groundbreaking , creepy ambiance and a haunting music score If I learned one thi...
Picsart, the Instagram killer
These days, going on social networks aside from feeling old as shit(25 is coming fast) I also feel a sense paranoia. The feeling that Big Brother is watching what I LULZ about, or the pictures of my coffee is crippling fear, th...
Panda-Rex’s favorite Mexican Pastries
When Mexican food comes up in conversation, most of the time it will be about something wrapped in a tortilla. The talk pretty much ends there, if it continues into dessert you hear about flan, for those of you not versed in Me...
House of Cards, a Netflix original series
Being the dead beat and degenerate that I am, if I get hooked to a TV series, the binge begins. Two seasons in three days, online if you are a thief or on a Netflix account you have acquired from a sibling or friend. Myself...
Double Twist, for you Itunes users on android devices
I don’t know about you but I find the Android operating much easier to use and to customize. Of course, I might be saying this just because I am embarrassed at the fact that kids in middle school can afford Apple products...
The Simpsons Tapped Out, Farmville that your Mom Doesn’t Play
One of the worst thing you can do to me is to invite me to play some sort of city building game with cute little sprites, or tell me about your cyber celery on Facebook. You cease to be a person in my eyes and chances are, if y...
Top Five Nicolas Cage Movies
You learn a lot about movie stars on the IMDB website, that’s this new fangled site on the interwebs that details the careers of actors, writers and directors from all kinds of flicks…even some dirty ones. While per...
The Odd Films of Micheal Gondry
Chances are you have seen a Micheal Gondry movie or at least heard talks of “this weird little movie about dreams”. The films of Micheal Gondry have the odd distinction of flying just under the radar that they get...
The Year of Luigi
Its been 30 years since the first appearance of Mario’s cowardly twin brother. Since ’83 Luigi has been in almost every one of Mario’s games as a supporting role, either golfing, racing and sometimes as a comp...
Opium and the Kung Fu Master, Junky Monks!!
1983 86 minutes Chia Tang Shaw Bros. studios Martial Arts Lung Ti, Te-Lo Mai, Hsueh-hua Liu 3.5 out of 5 Good Fight scenes, funny story at times, heavy on the moral of the story Tieh is the Kung Fu champion of the village, peop...
Casa De Mi Padre
March 16, 2012 Rated R 85 minutes Matt Piedmont Gary Sanchez Productions Comedy Will Ferrell, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia, Nick Offerman, Pedro Armendariz, Genesis Rodriguez 4 out of 5 stars, A movie spoof through and through but b...