BCD Flixsters Episode 9- Top 10 Movies of 2012

After a couple of delays we are live! In our first episode of 2013 we talk about each of our top 10 movies of 2012. This podcast is from a couple of weeks ago so the bit about the Oscars is old news. Thanks for being patient and please tell us what some of your top…

Zero Dark Thirty Review

 “I’m going to smoke everyone involved in this op and then I’m going to kill Osama bin Laden.” -Maya On May 2, 2011 President Barrack Obama issued an executive order to raid a compound which housed the terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty is Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow‘s retelling of the recent historical…

My Top 10 Movies of 2012

2012 has been one of the best years in film in recent memory for me because it covered the bases of all of genres I’m drawn to. We had great character dramas like The Master, Moonrise Kingdom and The Grey; a plethora of excellent Science Fiction like Looper and Prometheus; exceptional thrillers like Argo,  terrifying horror with Sinister,…

Les Miserables Review

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” -Jean Valjean  Victor Hugo’s classic story of Jean Valjean seeking redemption against his pursuer Javert in the midst of a revolution is a powerful one that has already been adapted to film and the stage many times over the last fifty years. Academy Award…

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Review

” I know you doubt me. I know you always have. I often think of Bag End. That’s where I belong. That’s home. You don’t have one. It was taken from you, but I will help you get it back if I can.” -Bilbo Baggins The making of the Hobbit is a story to tell in…

Redefining the Genre of High Fantasy: A Song of Ice and Fire

“Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.” -The Hound Fantasy is a genre that has given people a form of hope an escape for over a century with works such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Wheel of Time, and The Earthsea Cycle creating expansive worlds full of…

Rise of the Guardians Review

It’s almost Christmas time and with each new season comes its own slew of Christmas themed movies. Some years we’re treated to a retelling of the classics like A Christmas Carol, Elf, or Home Alone while other years we’re tortured by painfully awful cash-ins like Fred Claus and Deck the Halls. This year the Christmas…

BCD Flixsters Episode 5- Battle Royale (11-16-2012)

In this weeks’ episode we review the Japanese movie Battle Royale, a movie in which the youth are thrown in an arena to fight to the death. We also talk Skyfall, Lincoln, Game of Thrones, Breaking Dawn Part 2 and more! BCD Flixsters Episode 5- Battle Royale (11-16-2012).

Breaking Dawn Part 2 Review

*I’ll get this out of the way. I am not a fan of this series and I have not liked any of the movies thus far. While I thought that Eclipse was actually pretty solid from a production standpoint I simply cannot come around to the series because of the absurdly bad story, cardboard cutout…