Eddie Pasa
Eddie is a member of the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS). Since starting in 2010 at The Rogers Revue, Eddie has written for Reel Film News (now defunct), co-founded DC Filmdom, and writes occasionally for Gunaxin. When not reviewing movies, he's spending time with his wife and children, repeat-viewing favorites on Blu-Ray, working for rebranding agency Mekanic, or playing acoustic shows and DJing across the DC/MD/VA area. Special thanks go to Jenn Carlson, Moira and Ari Pasa, Viki Nova at City Dock Digital in Annapolis, Mike Parsons, Philip Van Der Vossen, and Dean Rogers.
Posts by Eddie Pasa
If you’ve been living under a rock or just aren’t old enough, you may never have heard of Johnny Knoxville or his MTV prank/stunt show “Jackass.” Chock-full of puerile, dangerous, juvenile, and often hilarious content, “Jackass” may have been lowest-common-denominator television to some, but inspired lunacy to other viewers. Myself? I saw it as a […]
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Bullying. It’s a phenomenon that has been around since the dawn of time, growing slowly worse and worse with each generation. With the advent of the internet and video phones, it’s easy to make fun of and hurt other people without even touching them physically. It’s a cowardly act, just to gain some kind of […]
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Here’s a bit of history. In 2007, acclaimed cult directors Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi) teamed up and released a double feature called Grindhouse, which boasted one movie by each director and several fake trailers for nonexistent movies from Rodriguez, Eli Roth (Hostel), Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead), and Rob […]
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On the night of October 6, 1998, 21-year-old Matthew Wayne Shepard was robbed, brutally beaten, tied to a fencepost and left for dead. Six days later, at 12:53 in the morning on October 12, Shepard succumbed to his injuries and died. This horrible crime made history, not to mention the national news; it was the […]
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Stepping out of my screening of Gravity, I instantly turned to the night sky and wondered about what goes on up there. We all hear about space junk and debris, with news reports of satellites and other objects falling from their orbits and entering Earth’s atmosphere. Gravity takes us out to the black, star-dotted reaches […]
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It’s kind of odd to look at the lives of Herb and Dorothy Vogel with a modern eye. No children, but plenty of cats, fish, and turtles in a cramped one-bedroom apartment that houses one of the largest modern art collections in the world. The very first impression one gets when they see filmmaker Megumi […]
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Having only seen Insidious days ago, the memory of it is fresh in my mind as I write this review of its sequel, Insidious: Chapter 2. The things I liked about Insidious were its constant tension, the scares, and the first two-thirds of the movie, where things happen logically and organically, giving the movie a […]
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“That ain’t workin’ – that’s the way you do it Money for nothing and your chicks for free.” — Dire Straits, “Money For Nothing” This refrain from this 1985 pop music smash hit seems to be the guiding principle these days for the folks that run the USA’s financial institutions. No longer bastions of security […]
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(In preparation for Friday’s release of Insidious: Chapter 2, I caught up on the first film in the series… here are my thoughts.) Director James Wan sure can make deeply psychologically disturbing movies – he’s responsible for the first film in the Saw series, which (people forget) was a true exercise in terror, not gore, […]
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How can one describe Fernando Trueba’s The Artist and the Model? A love story about a sculptor and his muse? No, that would be wrong. A look at how a man tries desperately to hang onto youth, even though he knows he cannot? Getting there, but still wrong. Artistic inspiration and creation? Close, but not […]
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