Movie Review: The Little Death

 The Little Death is an dark comedy about sex, love, relationships and the taboo. In a multi story narrative, we peer into the private lives of five suburban couples with some pretty kinky desires.

We find out what makes these people tick and the struggles we go through to make ourselves and other people happy.

Written and Directed by Josh Lawson, who also plays Paul (below).

 The Little Death has an abundance of laugh out loud moments as couples reveal to each other their sexual desires but it also explores the darker side of desire and the consequences of acting out our darker fantasies.  

Not one to watch with your parents or that awkward friend, the lighter bits will have you rolling around laughing while the darker bits will leave you wondering where it all went wrong.

 I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and while some stories changed from being funny to being more than a little disturbing there were a lot of sweet moments as well with the other couples.

Mistakes are made, some fantasies take on a life of their own and more than one couple loosing site of each other all while trying to find that 'little death'.

The characters feel real and all have their own faults and kinks, occasionally crossing paths in sometimes random ways bringing the stories together in a way that makes you realise these people could be anyone.

For making me laugh and making me think

4 out of 5 stars. 

Second Loot Crate Unboxing: Galactic!

Time for my second Loot Crate unboxing.

I subscribed on the three month instalments plan, so I have prepaid for one more box before my next payment comes out.

If you are liking what you see you can get yours here

This months theme was Galactic and promised some exclusive figures, one of which would be a Funko mystery mini and would also include things from Star Wars, Star Trek and Firefly.

Super excited about the Firefly stuff.

 

 Opened it up to find all of this.

 Star Wars included a Han Solo in Carbonite poster, and a retro arcade style magnet.

There was also HALO comic downloads as the digital content this month.

Weirdly, probably my favourite item this month are these Alliance Credits.

 I'm not at all a Trekkie, so this Tribble wasn't overly exciting, but this particular colour of Tribble has been bred only for Looters, so it's still a pretty cool item.

 I love the Alien franchise and this action figure is a pretty cool find, but it also single headedly makes this box worth the $$ paid for it, as I can buy this figure in the local store for the same price as the entire Loot Crate box.

 The Funko mystery mini turned out to also be a Lootcrate exclusive.

The Science Fiction minis will be released shortly if not out already and you can get a Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the regular selection but you wont be able to get this one.  

 I'm a huge fan of POP Rocks and getting a packet in this loot crate just sealed the deal for me.

Also the Loot Crate monthly pin, are pretty cool little collector items.

Not pictured:

Han Solo 'Locker' poster

Star Wars retro arcade gaming style magnet

Halo free comic downloads from Dark Horse

 

All in all this was a pretty good box, and I love that it had all the firefly stuff.

I will probably on sell the Tribble from this one at some stage with other loot crate items when I've built up a stash of stuff I'm not interested in from these boxes.



Kickstrarter: Mother Russia

Mother Russia is a comic brought out by the guys at FUBAR.

FUBAR have been releasing single issues irregularly for some time now, they write comics about wars and history and always add zombies to the mix.

Mother Russia is no different.

"Mother Russia opens in zombie occupied Stalingrad in 1943. What the war started in Stalingrad the zombie outbreak finished. It’s an open graveyard for 2 million soldiers and civilians.

 We follow a young female sniper as she watches the apocalypse unfold from the safety of a well supplied and impregnable bell tower. She spends her day thinning out the zombie herds one at a time.

Day after day. Month after month, until one day she sees something through her scope she hasn’t seen in a long time: a perfectly healthy 2 year old boy and he’s just stumbled right into the zombie apocalypse"

You got to admit that sounds interesting, right?

 

I selected the

Pledge $25 or more

588 backers

MOTHER RUSSIA BOOK- You recieve a print copy of MOTHER RUSSIA along with the 5x7 print and a sweet minicomic. This level and all above have their name listed in the thank you section of MOTHER RUSSIA.

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MOTHER RUSSIA BOOK- You recieve a print copy of MOTHER RUSSIA along with the 5x7 print and a sweet minicomic. This level and all above have their name listed in the thank you section of MOTHER RUSSIA.

Estimated delivery: Jan 2014

Add $10 USD to ship outside the US

 

The initial goal was $3,500, but they raised a whopping $95,908.

So of course there were stretch goals and a load of bonuses were given.

 Now you can see in this photo, more than those three items I pledged for arrived.

@$25,000 - Fubar Guts and Glory one-shot

@$50,000 - 32 pg Sargent Kilroy mini comic

@$65,000 - 24 pg cold war special comic.

@$80,000 - 28 pg full colour B-Sides and Parties mini comic.

Then as it was taking so long to get all the comics printed and we headed way out of the January 2014 delivery date, free comic book day came and went, and the artist was delivered a heap of extra copies, so decided to add them to the pile for anyone getting physical copies.

On top of this a digital copy of Ace of Spades and last years free comic book day comic were also given to all backers.

 

 Mother Russia.

It's a really neat size and the art is terrific.

I can't wait to get into it and find out what happens.

 

 The mini comics; B-Sides &Rarities, Kilroy and Mother Russia.

The full size comics; Ace of Spades; Guts and Glory; Better Red Than Dead.

 

It was a little late in coming but I think it was worth it to get this load of comics in the mail.

I'm pretty happy with what I got for my $35.

I still haven't taken the time to search out my name in the thank you pages at the back of the comic, but with 1890 backers, it could take a while to find.