by Judson Cade Pedigo

Whenever I think of end of the world movies, I don’t always go to alien invasions, zombie plagues, or sinister Halloween mask manufacturers with a penchant for catchy jingles. What end of the world means to me is finding out that Anthony Michael Hall has been showing your panties off to a bunch of geeks, or that the love of your life is dating a guy named Blane (that’s not a name, it’s a major appliance) or that feeling you get when you just wrecked your old man’s prized Ferrari. Now that’s some world-ending shit right there. I really doubt I’ll ever see an alien war ship blast anything near me but I have been broken up with and that really sucks. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but with me whimpering on the couch with a sixer of budget beer and a movie. Here are my top three picks for what I like to call, “I Just Got Dumped and My World is Falling Apart So I Just Want to Watch a Movie to Take My Mind off Things but Why Do I Keep Watching Movies about Relationships, This is Only Making It Worse.”