When people think of Oliver Stone and his films, immediately they jump to the conspiracy theorist and bombastic narcissist who loves the sound of his own voice and lets his ego run roughshod over his […]
AUDIO FANFICTION: BILL & TED’S MOST EXCELLENT MIX
For years, decades, centuries, millennia, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan have been lauded as the most premium examples of stoner metalheads in modern cinema. We here at Grumpire, however, think the boys […]
BHYH: THE “TIDE’S COMING IN” MIX
On this week’s BHYH, we’re milking all we can get from the late summer with a vintage tune from a classic beach movie, a couple of quirky hip-hop tracks, a heart-breaking post-grunge ’90s cut, a […]
A TRILOGY ABOUT THE BLADE TRILOGY, PT. 1
In the year 2000, I remember an imposing man, with questionable sanity, forcing me to watch a snowy, pirated copy of Blade. My friend Natalie and I were visiting her sister up the highway in […]
MIXTAPE: OUR RESIDENT CANADIAN RECOMMENDS NYC PUNK
Punk rock means a lot of different things to different people and that’s okay (unless you’re the likely-now-dead guy who wrote that infamous episode of Quincy M.E., decrying the “dangers” of punk). Punk is diverse, […]
THE TRAGIC DEMISE OF ALEX HAMMOND IN PROM NIGHT
Any good slasher movie worth its salt gives us a villain that has some traumatic event that sets off their murderous frenzy – their “trigger,” if you will. Sometimes it’s horrifically tragic, sometimes it’s tragically […]
“Me: Don’t call this ‘The Zen Art of Franchise 3rd Entries’; Grumpire: ‘Okay, we won’t’.”
The auteur casts a long and heavy shadow over genre franchises. Those inaugural, boundary-breaking, breathtaking works of art set things in motion for entire new worlds, while simultaneously doing everything they can to pump the […]
TYLER PETERSON DOESN’T LIKE DAZED AND CONFUSED
Grumpire 8, Dazed And Confused 0 Joining us on this summery spectacular episode is site contributor Tyler Peterson, whose grump pick is bound to ruffle a few feathers. Tyler takes on the idea of nostalgia […]
BHYH: THE “CONSPIRACIES, GROUPTHINK, AND LOVECRAFT, OH MY” MIX
On this edition of But Have You Heard we look into the eerier side of things with a very “Coast to Coast AM” inspired track from a veteran of modern alternative, a newly released banger […]
JENNIFER LOPEZ, MORE THAN JUST A FLY GIRL
During a holiday dinner late last year, the topic of Jennifer Lopez’s acting career came up, within the context of a larger film discussion, thanks to my mentioning her excellence in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of […]
MIXTAPE: GOING BACK TO CALI 1975
California has always been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. Yeah, I was born on the East Coast, but my heart and dreams lay on the west coast. So, […]
BHYH: THE “RETRO/FUTURE, BUT NOT RETROFUTURE” MIX
This week’s BHYH runs circles all around the space-time continuum by featuring a broad range of tracks including a possibly forgotten 1980s nightclubbing favorite, a science fiction-inspired look into the future from a South Texas […]
FILE UNDER: CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SH*T IS RATED PG??
Rock musicals of the 1970s are one of numerous corners in pop culture that represent the rapid change of taste happening during the New Hollywood era. For decades, the traditional musical was a reliable gimmick […]
MIXTAPE: WE BE DIPPIN’
For eight years I ran a small, historical ice cream and hamburger stand located on the west side of Nashville called Bobbie’s Dairy Dip. It’s a famous place in Nashville; built in 1951, the colorful […]
THE STEALTHY SUB-GENRES OF THE PSYCHO SEQUELS
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is long considered one of the horror genre’s grandest achievements, so much that in 1992, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress. The level of talent […]