Ranking movies is always fun. I don’t put much credit into it, but it allows me to put my taste under a microscope as well as examine and explore particular films in a myriad of ways, including technical and creative details. Ranking anything, of course, also furnishes debate. Every year I pick my favorite films […]
Right Stick Reticle, Right Shoulder 1, Repeat
A serious epidemic has befallen the land of gaming and it has to stop. Almost every computer/video game that isn’t based on sports (unless it is the Winter Olympics, damn you biathlon), strictly puzzle solving (think Tetris), or old school RPG (although it is slowly being overrun) has some element of picking up a gun […]
The Baggpod 2/29/2012 – Leap Day EXTRAVAGANZA
Baggs and Jake Krengel (not to be confused with the J Skeez) recap Oscar winners and let grade their excitement for all upcoming movie releases during March. http://youtu.be/AlmW4UY17AQ
5 Ideas to Make the NBA All-Star Game Better
Ever since players have been making oodles of money all-star games have lost a lot of their luster. Coming off the heels of the NBA All-Star game here are ten ways to make the game better – either by making it more competitive or more fun. 1) Let the players bet on their teams winning […]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Review
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is at both times exactly what you would expect and surprising (you will groan even louder at that comment once you’ve seen the movie). It’s a movie that has all the trappings of your typical melodramatic, gunning for an Oscar, overly inspirational movie. The actors’ names are all right (a […]
Oscar Retrospective 2010
Leading up to the 84th Annual Academy Awards the In The Bagg staff will take a look back at the past ten years of the awards and will give their opinions on whether the movies/winners held up, if they academy completely shat the bed, and how strong that particular year was for movies. Please note […]
Oscar Retrospective 2009
Leading up to the 84th Annual Academy Awards the In The Bagg staff will take a look back at the past ten years of the awards and will give their opinions on whether the movies/winners held up, if they academy completely shat the bed, and how strong that particular year was for movies. Please note […]
The Descendants – Review
Few filmmakers can satirize modern crises as well as Alexander Payne. The Descendants juggles death, betrayal, and greed in such a laid-back surfer-dude attitude that you can’t help laughing with it. The story follows Matt King (George Clooney) a distant father, an absent husband, and lawyer whose family are direct descendants of royalty that own 25,000 acres […]