Andy Crump
Girls With Guns: An Appreciation of This Action-Packed Movie Genre
Action cinema’s “girls with guns” subgenre seems an unlikely source of prestige, going by name alone, and the bodies that arbitrate movies’ cultural value - the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for instance - seem to agree. Institutions like AMPAS rarely honor action films of any sort, save…
The Best Sour Beers To Drink This Summer
Increasingly, craft beer brewers and patrons have turned toward lagers - pale, dark, Pilsners, Helles, bocks - as the breezy de facto alternative to the God Emperor of the craft industry, the IPA. People want options, and they want beer they can recognize immediately as “beer” as codified by America’s…
These Arizona Wilderness Beers Will Introduce You To Your New Favorite Hop Variety
A few meaningful details about Marquee Moon, the latest entry in Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co.’s Dirty Hop Water series, immediately stand out at first glance. One, the brewers dig the NYC rock legends Television—specifically their genre-defining debut album Marquee Moon. Two, they have a sense of humor: the beer clocks…
The 5 Horror Movies You Should See After Watching ‘Evil Dead Rise’
So you’ve just gotten out of the theater after seeing Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, and you’re in need of both a fresh pair of drawers and a pick-me-up tonic to recover from the experience (and not necessarily in that order). Fine, good, makes sense. Nothing like a hot chocolate…
The 9 Hops That Every IPA Lover Should Know
You don’t have to be a scientist or a horticulturalist or a brewer to appreciate beer. You just have to have a lively palate and a sense of adventure. You don’t need an advanced degree to grasp the role hops play in shaping beer, either, but beer education is fun,…
If You Liked ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ You Need To Watch Michelle Yeoh’s Other Movies
Awards hype is rarely worth your time and bother. Even when pundits and PR machines pick the right nominees, they’re still wrong for treating them like race horses. For the 2022-23 season, the awards committees have outdone themselves by churning out a particularly oxymoronic narrative around the year’s most celebrated…
The Best Classic Movies on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now
Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight. Schindler’s List. Each of these films enjoy a spot in film’s pantheon, and qualify as modern classics. This will inevitably make more than a few folks who grew up in these movies’ eras wither on the spot. For them, “classic” refers to films made before…
New England Is Home To Some of the Country’s Best Beer. These Were the 5 Best New Beers of 2022
Six states make up New England, but as those states all itty bitty, you’d be forgiven for putting the region on the small end of the scale. It's not, however, a small region in terms of its influence on beer. You might be surprised to hear that at dueling moments…
Every 1980s Genre Movie Fan Should Own the ‘Highlander’ 4K Release
Over the last few decades, Highlander, Russell Mulcahy’s 1986 fantasy cult movie, has received more home video releases than Connor MacCleod has taken heads from immortals in sword fights. But Lionsgate’s recent 4K update, now available in a handsome new package, opens the door for the obvious eye-roller: There can…
Why You Should Own a Blu-ray Collection (Really)
Last year, the Motion Picture Association tallied the number of consumers worldwide with subscriptions to streaming services as of 2020. The final count stopped at a cool 1.1 billion. That, to use a brainy technical term, is a lot of consumers. That MPA report isn’t exactly surprising. There’s a good…
Every Millennial Horror Geek Should Own the ‘Army of Darkness’ Shout! Factory 4K Release
The most important detail anyone needs to know about Shout! Factory’s 4K steelbook treatment of Sam Raimi’s seminal 1992 horror-comedy masterpiece Army of Darkness is this: It’s the best home video release the movie has ever gotten, and possibly ever will get. Even if you’re merely a casual fan, you…
The 10 Best End Of The World Movies
Every day, another disaster. Every day, a fresh calamity. Every day, a brand-new reason to think about building a doomsday shelter. It is exhausting living in unprecedented times, especially when new unprecedented developments pop up as if they’re competing with the last unprecedented development. The world is resilient and so…
The 10 Best Bad Movies On Netflix
You can learn a lot from watching a bad movie. Taking a note from The Princeton Review, watching a bad movie instructs you what not to do if you want to make a good movie. A bad movie can also remind you what it is that you appreciate about the…
20 Martial Arts Movies Every Guy Should See
Few things are as enjoyable and adrenalizing as martial arts films, whatever their make and model. Sometimes, plot is a necessity for stringing together cool fights. Sometimes, it’s as much of a pleasure as the cool fights. There’s nothing wrong with coasting along in anticipation of the next round of…
The Best Movies Based On Books
“The book is always better than the movie,” goes the crusty old precept about book-to-movie adaptations. In a certain percentage of cases, this may be true. In others, it may not. For the most part, books and the movies based on them are rarely better or worse than one another.…
