Sean Lemme

I started blogging as a way to lazily pass my high school senior project and somehow I've kept doing it for more than half my life

Shocktober Day 3: Häxan

Häxan (1922)

Hey, I get to write about something good for Shocktober this year! Yeah!

The first thing you need to know about Häxan is that there are apparently dozens of different cuts of this movie. I watched the 106 minute version Criterion made available on Hulu, which is I guess different from the 87 minute version you can buy from Criterion (NSFW: for some reason the screenshot Criterion used is a picture of a butt) or the 1968, William S. Burroughs-narrated version you can watch on YouTube. This is probably the case with any movie that has survived nearly 100 years, but I wanted to be absolutely clear that there’s a chance that those of you who’ve seen this may have seen more or less than I did, or the same stuff in a different context.
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T3 94: Top 10 Most Annoying Movie Franchises

As we established last week, right now we’re in film’s age of the franchise. Depending on who you ask that could have started as far back as the late seventies or as recently as the advent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the serialization of cinema. Previously, we focused on the positive aspects of that – the franchises that grew and delivered sequels better than their originals or became as a whole greater than any one movie. Now we turn our gaze to the shadows. The dark side of franchise filmmaking is seriously disturbing, so come with us now, as we enter the month of October, on this terrifying ride.

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See You in the Mosh’sh Pit

Haven’t done one of these in a long time and maybe I’ll never get a chance again, so here we go: Here’s everything I know about the songs in Rock Band 4, which is out in a couple weeks.

The most important, amazing thing that Harmonix has done is respect our commitment to the earlier games. You may have heard that DLC songs and on-disc tracks from the first three games will mostly all come over to the corresponding new consoles (so Xbox 360 goes to Xbox One and PS3 to PS4) and that most old instruments will be made to work on the modern machines too. Even better, songs from the pre-Rock Band 3 era will be remastered to allow vocal harmonies. All of that is amazing and almost certainly makes the game worth picking up just to preserve the value of everything else people like me already bought.

But there are a bunch of new songs in this game too. Check out the complete Rock Band 4 soundtrack after the jump.
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T3 93: Top 10 Movie Franchises

Can you feel it in the air, when the music’s playing? People everywhere are saying franchises, franchises. This year was and will go on to be one of the biggest franchise years ever, with Jurassic World making all the money, Marvel putting out a hit and a half, Terminator, Mad Max, and a million other things. But which movie franchises are the best? No one knows, but here are our favorites, in on nice 2 hour conversation.

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Pitching Tents 13: College (Featuring Paul Otteni!)

Soon summer will be over. The college kids will return to their campuses, after PAX and Bumbershoot we won’t have big events to worry about, the children will spend their days in schools. Oh, and it will stop being hot and sunny. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Join us this week on Pitching Tents as we celebrate the fact that a lot of people’s lives are changing right now, but our’s sure as hell aren’t.

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T3 92: Summer Songs

Hot damn! I can’t believe we are already the amount of days into August we are when this was posted! It’s basically back-to-school time already. But don’t fret, old buddy, there’s still some summer left. Let’s not treat it like one long Sunday and instead try to have some actual fun. Yeah! And you know what’s fun, don’t you? Talking about mostly old music and then trying to put it into a ranked list as if it really means something. That’s right, it may be summer but we certainly aren’t on break here at Top Ten Thursdays!

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T3 91: Atari Games

First Pixels, now the Fantastic Four… Man, it’s been a bad few weeks for movies that sound like a bad idea. Hey, speaking of Pixels, that was a movie about video games. You know who likes video games? We do, to varying degrees. You know what would be fun is if we did a podcast about video games that are like super old. Like, our dads played them in college old. That would be fun and a good idea and not totally out of our depth. So check out our top 2600-era Atari games right now!

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