TheRetroCritic

I compile 10 of the funniest moments from Hercules In New York . For the original video this is based on, check out my Patreon !

Which dimension are YOU?

The Grudge -themed Patreon ad.

Psycho-themed ad for my Patreon .

Do you like scary movies?

Some highlights from my Dune streams on Twitch .

I started playing Days Gone so here are some... highlights.

I talk a bit about the new Godzilla movie which, I think, stars Godzilla.

We are not impressed.

Review available on the new website .

Review available on the new website .

Zardoz is awesome: here are 10 reasons why (out of like a million).

Directed and co-written by Sam Raimi, Drag Me To Hell was a horror film from 2009 about a loan officer who makes a very powerful enemy when she denies an elderly woman a loan as the latter attacks her before rewarding her with a terrible curse. Raimi's return to the horror genre after completing his Spider-Man trilogy, Drag Me To Hell is every bit as violent and wacky as you'd expect from the man who brought us The Evil Dead and its madcap sequels. If anything, this is far more a comedy than it is a horror film. There are gross-out "scares" but those are more hilariously odd and disgusting than they are actually frightening. Take the multiple scenes in which the poor cursed heroine Christine (Alison Lohman) gets thrown up on or when she's the one throwing up various fluids, for example. Most of the scares in this movie are so cartoonish that it's just impossible not to laugh at them. Christine battles the old lady in a car at one point using office eq

We ask only the important questions on podcast  The Big Rewind .

Review now available on the new website .

I rant about The Oscars for... far too long.

Based on the true story of polka band leader Jan Lewan, The Polka King is a new comedy released by Netflix starring Jack Black, Jenny Slate and Jason Schwartzman. The film follows the rise and fall of Lewan, who was convicted for running a Ponzi scheme in the early 2000's. Jack Black is in familiar territory here playing a likeable, well-meaning yet off-beat and troubled character based on a real person like he did in the underrated 2011 film Bernie . This story, however, isn't so much dark as it is fascinatingly ridiculous: the idea that a little-known Polish polka singer in Pennsylvania somehow convinced a lot of people to invest in him for years is so surreal that it's ripe for parody. Black could have easily turned this role into a Nacho Libre -style cartoon but, even though he puts on an impossible accent here, he still captures what made this guy so appealing to others and shows different sides to his personality. Most of the time, Lewan is friendly and generous

Review of the Chevy Chase comedy Modern Problems .

Yes, it's true. I'm the real maestro behind the Star Wars theme.