Summoned from the tombs of turmoil, a demon of deceit and destruction, now roams amidst the chaotic confines of society, eager to prey in the night.                                         Mark Izzy Schurr 

Lucious Lunacy, A Modern Moron Movie Review

Upon death, there is absolute nothingness, or perhaps indeed, a tangible experience in the realms beyond death.

The 2017 “Flatliners” movie is about five medical students who journey to the other side of life by stopping their hearts for several minutes at a time while the others resuscitate the one person who has been intentionally flatlined.  

Courtney, portrayed by Ellen Page is the first person to embark upon this dangerous experiment, and at first, it’s wonderful. After being clinically dead for well over a minute, Courtney’s brain has been rewired, and her musical skills on the piano are returned to her, and medical school has become a lot easier for her. When some of her counterparts follow suit, their experiences are a tad different, yet still positive life changes.

Diego Luna who portrays Ray, the smartest of the five medical students says the others are stupid for intentionally having their hearts stopped, but he’s always there to bring them back to life!

Exploring the afterlife becomes a nightmarish debacle for the four students who have ventured to the 

regions of death and beyond. Their ability to recognize what is real or imagined becomes increasingly difficult for them to determine. Intense nightmares become a harsh awakening to what lies in the uncharted depths of death and despair.

A four star must see for fans of sci-fi horror.

Mark Izzy Schurr    

Overdue Movie Review, Huluween's "Uncanny Annie."

Annie’s dark world of despair, desperation and death are the main ingredients in her cocktail of siphoned sanity.

Clever and eager, Annie plays for keeps, spell out Annie’s name and seal the box in time, or out of Annie’s void you’ll never climb! You are now in Annie’s dark box of fun, play along if you want to see the sun. (Direct lines from “Uncanny Annie)

“Uncanny Annie” is one of this year’s Hulu original movies and very fitting for Huluween. This movie is geared for older teenagers and twenty-something-year-olds, but even for a 55-year-old such as myself, I enjoyed this horror flick.

The storyline starts out as a stereo-typical teen-aged slasher flick. A group of college aged young men and women get together on Halloween night, and down in the unlit basement, Uncanny Annie, an unusual board game manages to surface itself in the living room for all to play. A young woman dressed as a cheerleader goes down into the unlit basement to grab some board games.

Uncanny Annie, just like the game Jumaji sucks its players into the game itself. Annie is a deceitful deity who enjoys tormenting people before she kills them. Upon the first death of one of the teenagers, the rest of the group has no choice but to play in Annie’s twisted world of malicious mayhem.

Spelling out Annie’s name, and getting the box sealed in time is not such and easy task. Each player is asked a series of questions from cards within the game, and what is requested of the players is not always pleasant, and their being timed. Play along if you want to see the sunshine again!

If rated R violence and teenaged shenanigans does not bother you, and you enjoy horror movies, “Uncanny Annie” is well worth watching, a solid three star rating. 

Mark Izzy Schurr 

Alas, it's time to flee the stygian spheres of dead laughter and severed joy and embark upon a world dominated by kindness and creativity.

Mark Izzy Schurr

Alas, it's time abandon the stygian spheres of dead laughter and joyless hearts eager to slay joy and destroy laughter. Mark Izzy Schurr 

Bombs, Babes and the Bikini

“The Bomb,” a PBS film released in 2015 tells the tale of the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, and suggests that the bikini bathing suit was created because of the bomb.

"The Bomb"

Explosive and dangerous, bikinis, like the bomb can be these two things according to some folks.  

The modern era bikini made its first appearance in 1946. Some historians claim bikini style wear has been around for more than 5,600 years. (Wikipedia)

“The Bomb” may have also created a new hair style. Fads of hairstyles or the invention of the bikini may or may not have been created from the inspiration of the bomb, but regardless, the similarities and fascinations are real. Mark Izzy Schurr

"The Bomb" photos 

"The Bomb" A PBS Film Reviewed

MAD equates to massive death and disease; Mutual Assured Destruction, the Manhattan Project was first tested in the 1940s in the desserts of New Mexico.


The first atom bomb ever tested in New Mexico was aptly named by the Mexicans; ‘Journey of the Dead.’

photo from PBS's "The Bomb"   

American warmongers were, and are currently the only nation to use the atomic bomb on people. On Aug., 6, 1945, the Fat Man, aka, the atom bomb was dropped on Japan’s Hiroshima, and upon its explosion, it raised the temperature to 10,000 degrees and killed at least 80,000 people with a single explosion. Imagine a child’s blood boiling just before they die; that’s one evil of the atomic bomb.  


Hiroshima wasn’t enough for the power ridden American leaders of the 1940s. Driven by the ancient spirits of the nefarious Roman leaders from 1,000s of years ago, another atomic bomb on August 9, was dropped on Nagasaki, killing approximately 70,000 people, far too many of which were women and children. 

"The Bomb" pictures

Tragically, the more than a 150,000 dead from the two bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just a horrid end to the other countless deaths from the atomic bombings. A 100,000 Japanese died in one night from massive bomb drops in another Japanese city prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

More photos from "The Bomb"

World War II officially ended on Sept., 2, 1945. Less than five years from the end of World War II, world leaders across the globe were already pawning their poor into another war and bombing more women and children, this time in Korea.  


After World War II, the nuclear arms race began, and America and many other counties are currently poisoning our oceans and lands with radiation. Radiation can’t be smelled or felt. Everybody is affected by it, there’s no place to hide. For more then five decades now, 1,0000s of nuclear explosions have occurred.  (PBS, 2015, “The Bomb”) 

Hydrogen bomb explosion from "The Bomb"

The atomic bomb has nothing on the hydrogen bomb.  In 1954, America’s hydrogen bomb, with a single explosion is equal to 15 megatons; 15 million tons of TNT. (PBS, “The Bomb”) The first Hydrogen bomb was 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. (“The Bomb”)


In the late 1940s and 1950s, many nuclear bomb tests were conducted in the ocean, and not by the U.S. alone. Some of these single explosions have lifted 2 million tons of sea water into the air which creates a mist of radiation that effects small islands and fishermen.  (PBS, “The Bomb”) Also in this time span, several radiated contaminated U.S. ships were deliberately sunk, but not before saving its crews, yet the poisoned ships festered the ocean floors, fueling their chaotic chemicals amidst the ocean depths and its creatures.   


In the 1950s, Russia’s hydrogen bomb, aka, the Zar Bomba was 50, not 15 megatons and 50 million tons of TNT, enough to kill 4 million people in a single explosion.  


Nearly 70 years ago, a single nuclear bomb could kill 4 million people with one explosion. Imagine what one of these explosions can do now. Political tensions seem to never completely dissipate, and our current president worries me to say the very least. Hawaiian Representative Tulsi Gabbard said the U.S. currently has 1,000s of missiles pointed at us.


“Because of President Donald J. Trump, the U.S. has an erratic and unpredictable relationship with even its allies,” entrepreneur Andrew Yang said.

Mark Izzy Schurr