Five years into the decade, ‘90s music still wasn’t totally sure what it was doing. While most agree 1995 was a pivotal year in music, marked by release after release that helped define the decade’s […]
Author: elbee
Grumpire Founder and Editor-in-Chief.
SPOOKY STREAMING WRAP UP
Another Halloween came and rotted, and streaming services continued to be the home of the most horror movie premieres. Grumpire has been unscientifically tracking this trend for a few years, and 2024 was no different. […]
HIP-HOP DAY 2024
Our second annual celebration of Hip-Hop Day comes just as a building block of hip-hop culture is globally recognized in the 2024 Paris Olympics! Very cool to see breaking added as an Olympic sport this […]
MIXTAPE: GRUMPY ’94
“Peace, love, empathy”. Those words hit me like a truck when Courtney Love spoke them. Hearing her read from her late husband Kurt Cobain’s suicide note that April of 1994 on MTV News of all […]
BIMBO BRUTALE: WHY 2000-2009 IS THE GOLDEN AGE OF FEMALE-LED ACTION/HORROR MOVIES
“And it’s stupid when they say, ‘You only use your body. You are an object of men.’ No, I’m the subject. I’m not an object.” – Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer and showgirl, 1988 A hard-bodied […]
REVENGE OF THE CHEAPIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO ‘BIG B’
Amateur street racers fire grappling hooks into the sky, take down a military cargo plane, and save the world. A zoologist whispers kindly to a kaiju-sized ape, surrounded by the complete destruction of a city, […]
CHRISTMAS IS GOING TO THE DOGS
Earlier this week we published a piece examining the celluloid representation of the Christmas Spirit in relation to Charles Dickens’ seminal novella A Christmas Carol. The author noted that dogs often epitomize the Spirit of […]
YOU ARE NOT YOUR COTTON CANDY GUN™: A RE-EVALUATION OF ‘KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE’
“PT Barnum said it so long agothere’s one born every minute, don’t you know” – The Dickies Editor’s note: Originally this article was going to be a true-to-life Piss-Take. I have spent several adult years […]
HAIR HELMETS & POLKA DOTS: THE CORNY AUTHENTICITY OF ‘BACK TO THE BEACH’
“Not many people can cha cha chaNot everybody can do the twistBut everybody can do the SkaIt’s the new dance you can’t resist” ~ old Jamaican proverb* A woman and man are walking hand in […]
MIXTAPE: SHOEGAZE FOR SUMMER
Shoegaze might have a reputation for being gloomy, dejected, and wintry, but with this post, I’m here to argue that there’s no better style of music for a day at the beach than shoegaze. Just […]
AUDIO FANFICTION: ‘BENEDETTA’
I’m not sure if I think Benedetta is a great movie. But as a late-period Paul Verhoeven movie, I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt. Even though visually it remains barely interesting and the […]
NEW IN ACTION: MARCH/APRIL 2022
Join The Grumps as we bring you a selection of what’s new and now in the Action genre. Strap in for Round-house Round-Up! from elbee: THE ADAM PROJECT (2022) [NEW IN THEATERS AND ON NETFLIX] […]
AUDIO FANFICTION: ‘THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST’
Popularity, I think, is irrelevant in film critique. Increasingly common in film writing is the practice of saying something favorable to please a crowd who already loves a thing; it’s no secret we started Grumpire […]
BHYH: INTRO TO DUNGEON SYNTH
This Halloween season we’re headed down a different path than the blanketed heavy metal, silly old novelty songs, psychobilly freakout, or block-of-Michael-Jackson-followed-by-Ray-Parker-Jr. for our party music. This is a path that leads deep into the […]
AUDIO FANFICTION: ‘MALIGNANT’
Earlier this week we published a thoughtful piece on James Wan’s latest horror offering, Malignant. Whether or not anyone had the same takeaway from the film as the author, I felt good publishing the essay […]