Halloween II is responsible for introducing the horror genre to me. The original is a better movie but I'll always look fondly at those darkened, poorly staffed hallways of Haddonfield Memorial Hospital. It was there that my love of Michael Myers…
Author: Chandru Ravindran
When I was young I wanted to be an author. This was back when I had no idea the kind of hard work and creativity that is needed for that kind of a life. Once I became more informed on the subject, I decided that a life of experiencing other people's creativity (movies, television, books, video games) is more in line with my lazy outlook on life.
However, I never lost my love for writing. This coupled with my ability to go on rambling diatribes on subjects that most people don't find very important made me realize that I could be a reviewer! (just not a professional one with a deadline or anything). Then I figured, I like to ramble. Let me write about literally whatever pops in my head. That is the tale of how this blog came to be. Riveting stuff.
Ranking the Episodes of The X-Files Season 2 (#22-25)
I'm back with some more of my rankings, this time for the second season of The X-Files. Thankfully, there are only four truly bad episodes this season IMO (compared to something close to ten episodes in Season 1). Also, its…
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A Statistical Review of John Carpenter’s Halloween
The Halloween series holds a special place in my heart. These are the movies that got me into the horror genre back when I was young and nerdy and I come back to them religiously. One thing I've never done in my…
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Ranking the Episodes of The X-Files Season 1 – #1-4
We've arrived at the top of my list for Season 1. This is going to be so different from my prior rankings because of the huge bump in quality on display here. Before I could poke fun at the flaws…
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Ranking the Episodes of The X-Files Season One – #5-8
Here we go with my 5th-8th favorite episodes of the first season. From here on out, all of the episodes are quite good and the flaws are minimal. If someone wanted to watch just one random episode of The X-Files, I would…
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Teardroppin’ My Favorite Tony Parker Games – #12
With the news last week that Tony Parker had signed with the Hornets, its been an emotional time for me. Objectively, it was likely a good move for the Spurs just because Tony is not the player he used to…
Ranking The Episodes of The X-Files Season 1 – #9-12
We are now into the top half of my rankings of the first season of The X-Files. All of the remaining episodes are thoroughly watchable and enjoyable to varying degrees. However, with higher quality episodes comes less for me to…
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Ranking the Episodes of The X-Files Season 1 – #13-16
Hi all, get ready for #13-16 in my rankings of the Season 1 episodes of The X-Files. I promise that this post will be at least as mediocre as these episodes. Check out my previous rankings for #21-24 and #17-20. #16. Episode…
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Video Game Level Reviews – The Last of Us Chapter 4 (“Pittsburgh”)
Note: I published a version of this post a week ago but WordPress makes it much too easy to roll back a post to an earlier draft without any chance of recovering the later version. Siggghhhh...which means most of what…
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Ranking the Episodes of The X-Files Season 1 – #17-20
Hi all, I'm continuing through my irrefutable rankings of the first season X-Files episodes. Last time, I talked about Space, Shapes, Ghost in the Machines, and The Jersey Devil. Those episodes for the most part were irredeemable. The episodes on…
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Pointless Rewind 