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Thomas Cowley, March 10, 2017, at 7:00 a.m. Tweet to: @boldirishman – Originally published on Slickster Magazine & Rain Man Digital Media Do you remember 2005’s prophetically titled movie Doom, an adaptation of the video game of the same name? Do you remember the First Person Shooter scene where Karl Urban’s
Thomas Cowley, February 23, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. – Originally published on Slickster Magazine Whether you are a fan of the Marvel movies or not (and statistically speaking, if you are a human being on planet earth then you are) it is hard not to see that the movies have fallen
Written by Thomas Cowley, January 19th, 2017, at 9:00 a.m. – Originally published on Slickster Magazine The practice of combining two, seemingly opposing things in order to make a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts is nothing new. Sweet and sour pork, salt and caramel, fruit and
Written by Thomas Cowley, August 10th, 2016 at 10:30a.m. Tweet to: @boldirishman Recently, I found myself in the odd position of having a free weekend with no responsibilities or work commitments. This situation was frightening and unnatural for me so I was quick to remedy it, resulting in my excursion to
Written by Thomas Cowley – Published on both Rain Man Digital and Slickster Magazine Critics Need to Calm Down Saying that film critics are catching a bit of heat for the wide spread opinion of DC’s Suicide Squad is like saying that peace in the Middle East has been a
Written by Thomas Cowley, June 10th, 2016 at 9:00a.m. – Originally published on Slickster Magazine Recently, I compared the original The Conjuring to a pleasant steak dinner due to its surprising quality despite it being nothing out of the ordinary. This week I attended a screening of its sequel, the
Written by Thomas Cowley, June 4th, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. – Originally published on Slickster Maazine Have you ever had a particularly good steak at a barbecue or a friend’s house? Nothing you would pay top dollar for, but is still good enough to remind you that you should go
Written by Thomas Cowley, May 17th, 2016, 10:00a.m. – Originally published on Slickster Magazine When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) “torture porn” genre. Stories about things that go bump in the night fueled by
Written by Thomas Cowley, May 8, 2016 at 10:00am – Originally published on Slickster Magazine We all become unhappy from time to time. It is natural and part of the human experience. But what if one day you woke up in a world where you could not be sad? What
Written by Thomas Cowley – Originally Published on Rain Man Digital It is often said that mainstream media has ruined our mental faculties. Often the comparison is made that those of us who watch too much TV may as well stick our head in a microwave for all the good it’s