Gangster Squad
By Gary Dowell Cursed by bad timing and a severe lack of originality, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad is every bit as generic as its title indicates. It’s certainly pretty to look at as its visual […]
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Top 5 Movies to See in 2013
By Ethan Harmon Last year gave us a plethora of fantastic movies, from the explosive, chaotic Avengers to the dirty, bloodbath that is Django Unchained. It was a year full of anticipation, suspense, action, adventure, […]
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
By Gary Dowell With the riveting, compelling, and unshakably haunting Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow proves her historic Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker was no fluke. She takes the heightened realism of that movie one […]
YouTube Is Scaring Me To Death
By Peter Gerstenzang Usually, when I wander over to YouTube, I’m looking for diversion, some distraction from my day-to-day troubles. But in recent months, they’ve started posting really disturbing ads with the videos. Which promote […]
Wayans World
By Ethan Harmon The Wayans brothers are a famous, multi-talented bunch that have been in dozens of movies, bringing laughs to audiences throughout the world. From In Living Color to Scary Movie, the Wayans brothers […]
Speaking the Truth
By C.Patterson True comedy doesn’t exist in your comfort zone. It resides in places that are often too taboo to speak of or too sensitive to touch. You have to be imaginative, immutable, and possess […]
Movie Review of Jack Reacher
By Gary Dowell – [email protected] There’s half of a good movie scattered throughout Jack Reacher; unfortunately, it’s overwhelmed by the half that’s not so great. Produced with the intent to kick-start a franchise, it’s so […]
Les Miserables – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell – [email protected] Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) extravagant movie adaptation of the long-running musical version of Victor Hugo’s tale of the haves and the have-nots, is systematically big, loud, splashy, and melodramatic […]
The Un-Chick Flick: Django Unchained
By Fil Chapa – [email protected] When a film dealing with the hot button issue of illegal immigration first opened in the early 1980s, critics widely condemned Oliver Stones’ stereotypical depiction of immigrants and overuse of […]
THE ANSWER GUY: DECEMBER 27, 2012
Dear Arthur, What are your thoughts on me bartering sex in exchange for more money from my kid’s douche bag dad who barely takes care of our daughter? -Signed, Bartering Barbie Perhaps it’s written somewhere […]