The Greatest Christmas Movies of All-Time: #4-A Christmas Story

In life, sometimes you find the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination. Often times Christmas seems the same, with the fevered anticipation leading up to the 25th being far better than the day itself. The hanging of the lights, the trimming of the tree, the baking of cookies, the purchasing of presents, the [...]

And the Oscar Goes to…

Reptastic live blogs from the red carpet at the 80th Annual Academy Awards

Last night we at Reptastic blogged live from the Red Carpet (by red carpet we mean the blood-stained carpet in our Seattle apartment) to bring you all the goings-on of the 80th Academy Awards. It was a night with a few surprises and [...]

No Country for Old Men

In honor of it’s eight Academy Award nominations, Reptastic reprises it’s review of our pick for best film of 2007

The barren, scorched earth of 1980s West Texas is unforgiving, unrelenting; the same could be said for Anton Chigurh, a man who’s chillingly [...]

Heath Ledger Dies

The tragic death of Heath Ledger will further expose a celebrity-obsessed media and the blurring lines between tabloid and mainstream media

As we at Reptastic have intimated in posts before, we’re at a loss when it comes to the cult of celebrity in our country. This blog could be far more popular if we used our [...]

There Will be Hipster

The smarmy Juno suffocates itself with hipster-speak, but a good story still finds room to breathe

Hipsters are an interesting breed of human. Commonly found roving in packs, they exhibit characteristics including a predilection for indie music, art-films, irony-drenched witticisms, thrift-store fashion, an air of pomposity, and a need to constantly cultivate their image, all while [...]

The Most Reptastic of 2007

Like any young man who read Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in their formative years, I’m a huge fan of lists. So I’ve gone through 2007 with a fine-toothed comb to create these definitive lists of the most Reptastic films, albums, songs, TV Shows, books, athletes, and sports scandals of 2007. We (the Royal we) here [...]

Greatest Christmas Movies of All-Time: #1 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

There could be no other number one. All apologies to It’s a Wonderful Life, as America’s top Christmas movie, you had a wonderful run, but the new king of Christmas is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The story of the Griswolds’, namely Clarks’, pursuit of an old fashioned family Christmas is an American Classic, fully deserving [...]

The Greatest Christmas Movies of All-Time: #3-Elf

Christmas is best seen through the eyes of a child; the wonderment, the awe, the innocence and the sheer gullibility makes children perfectly suited to immerse themselves in the season. After all, little kids still believe in Santa Claus, at least until the bratty little kid at school shatters their childhood by telling them there [...]

Greatest Christmas Movies of All-Time: #5 The Muppet Christmas Carol

In the spirit of the season, this week I will be unveiling my choices for the top-5 Christmas movies of all-time.
The Muppets are an institution–a favorite part of my childhood. So take the august British actor Michael Caine, combine him with those quirky Jim Henson creations, then mix the two with the most enduring tale [...]

Screenwriters of the World Unite…

The WGA has walked off the job, here’s your primer

It’s normal for people to regret decisions they made in the 80s. From junk bonds to hyper-color, from power suits to parents beating the crap out of each other over Cabbage Patch Dolls, America’s decade of excess was excessively error prone.
Despite the foibles and flights of [...]