Lovable Baddies – Anton Chigurh

Our favorite Lovable Baddies was our Flavor of the Month for February but considering we still have it going strong in March, I figured I’d bring some love to the baddie that jumped to the front of my mind for last month. I know I started off with Beetlejuice but I didn’t want to come too hard too fast. Anton Chigurh puts a check mark into every box of my Lovable Baddie criteria.

Wrestling Wrap Up 3/12/2012

Tonight’s Raw hails from Cleveland, Ohio and it’s also the home of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. It is that connection that drives the theme for tonight’s show. After two weeks of Rock and John Cena having verbal battles, it’s time for them to show us their musical chops. It’s also time for us to get a little more info on HBK’s involvement in the Hell in a Cell match between Undertaker and HHH. Lets see what tickled my fancy and incurred my wrath.

Computer Games Are On My Mind

A large contingent of the Snowball Summit crew spent the weekend eating pizza, drinking Mountain Dew, and playing Starcraft 2 and by large contingent, I basically mean all of them. If it’s hard to picture exactly what the weekend looked like for those guys, then please toss on your South Park nerd hats and remember the little character known as Jenkins. Oh you don’t remember Jenkins? How’s this for a reminder?

Wrestling Wrap Up 2/27/2012

Coming off last week’s first Road to Wrestlemania Raw, this week aims to keep the train chugging. John Cena blasted The Rock last week and this week The Rock is back to up the ante. Tonight’s Raw comes to us from Portland, Oregon. The show is shaping up to be explosive. Did it live up to expectations?

Enjoy Oscar’s Best Animated Short

I very rarely get a chance to see the short films nominated for Oscars and I’ve always been a bit bummed out by that. I think that short films offer a great diversion from the standard feature films we get to see on a continuous basis. They are almost always inventive and refreshing and sometimes they are so rich, they surpass their bigger brothers. I found the winner of this year’s Best Animated Short on Youtube and I’ve provided the video below. The short is simply enchanting. In the fifteen minutes of run time, I experienced so much and when it ended, I watched it again. It’s a very well made film and it conveys a great deal of emotion and information with every scene. Check the video out after the break and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Job Opening at Dunder Mifflin

A stalwart of NBC’s Thursday lineup is looking set for some more problems at the top of the food chain.

The Morning After: AMC Best Picture Showcase Part 2

I attended the second weekend of AMC’s Best Picture Showcase and considering how I felt about the first weekend , I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular. What I got to see on the second weekend surprised me greatly though. The second weekend had a lineup that started with Hugo in 3D, The Help, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Artist and Midnight in Paris. From the limited amount of information I sought out to be familiar with the films I was going to see The Artist was easily my most anticipated film in the lineup. The lineup surprised me from start to finish. I’m going to jump into the films briefly and then I’ll give my overall impressions on all the nominations and who I feel will win and what my personal favorite film was from the nominations.

God of War 4?

A video games retailer in South Africa could be in deep trouble with Sony after a page on their website started taking pre-orders for God of War 4. The only problem with that is that Sony hasn’t even announced if they are planning on doing a fourth installment involving the Ghost of Sparta.

The Morning After: AMC’s Best Picture Showcase Day 1 Reactions

The Oscars are easily one of my anticipated events every year and for the past six years I have attended an event called the Best Picture Showcase. It’s a showcase event hosted by AMC theaters, where they play every Best Picture nominee. From the moment I found this event back in 2007, it was a can’t miss event for me. I was always lamenting the fact that I could never see each Best Picture nominee before the big show because I wasn’t always able to find a screening at a local theater. This weekend was the first installment of the 2012 Best Picture nominees and some of the Snowball Summit crew attended the event with me. The four films that we got to see were War Horse, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and The Descendants. I had no real expectations for War Horse and I had seen Moneyball three times already so my excitement surrounded the final two films of the day, The Tree of Life and The Descendants. The Best Picture Showcase has been a great experience over the last six years and this weekend wasn’t any different but it did offer some conflicting feelings for me. Those concerns are the reason for this article. I’ll start by breaking down the films in a series of mini-reviews and I’ll recap it all by reflecting on my overall impressions of the day.

My Must See Films of 1999 Part 2

Last week I counted down the first five films that I consider must see from 1999. They were a very diverse group of films but each possessed certain elements of pop culture stamina or brilliance that they couldn’t be ignored. The top five are just after the break and I’ve been anticipating this moment ever since I finished my research on the 1990’s. I’m bringing you this article a few days early because I’ve got some very important plans and maybe articles planned for this weekend and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to do all the articles justice if I tried cramming them in altogether. It’s a few days early but here is the finale to my Must See Films of 1999.