Something Nice to Say: The Case for To the Wonder FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Abigail Marshall - April 1, 2016 Article by: Abigail Marshall Everyone’s heard the line before: if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it. “Something Nice to Say” is a column that takes another look at “certified rotten” movies and finds a redeeming quality in each one. Perhaps it’s necessary to clarify that To the
Malick, Museums, and Mindset: How We Engage With Art FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Josh Bradley - March 11, 2016March 25, 2016 Article by: Josh Bradley How do we engage with art? A couple weeks ago, I did two seemingly-unrelated things over the course of four days. I went to art museum and I caught an advanced screening of Terrence Malick’s latest film, Knight of Cups (2016). The movie has been described as an “experimental film”,
Friday the 13th part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [Retrospective] FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Robert Sommerfield - February 19, 2016March 25, 2016 Article by: Robert Sommerfield Drowned in a lake. Axe to the head. Electrocuted by lightning. Grudge match with Carrie. What do you do once you’ve already done everything you can think of to your franchise slasher anti-hero? Well, you take him out of the woods, and into the city, of course!
Valentine’s Day And An Old Fashioned Romantic FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Anthony Florez - February 5, 2016March 25, 2016 Article by: Anthony Florez Do you ignore February 14 because it's a holiday manufactured by greeting card companies? Are you a lapsed romantic that simultaneously loves Jim and Pam but secretly resents them for not being married in real life? Do you scoff at people who buy Adele's music but blast
Something Nice to Say: The Case for Elizabethtown FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Abigail Marshall - January 30, 2016March 25, 2016 Article by: Abigail Marshall Everyone's heard the line before: if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it. "Something Nice to Say" is a column that takes another look at "certified rotten" movies and finds a redeeming quality in each one. If you were anywhere near a movie theater in
Why #OscarsSoWhite Is A Problem You Should Care About FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Josh Bradley - January 15, 2016March 25, 2016 Article by: Josh Bradley For the second year in a row, every acting nominee at the Academy Awards is white, prompting a resurgence of the #OscarsSoWhite trend on Twitter. Many people responded with ire and many responded with humor, but a good number of people responded with indignation and curiosity as
A Look Back on FULL METAL JACKET FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Josh Bradley - November 10, 2015March 25, 2016 Article by: Josh Bradley “But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.” –Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket Watching a particular movie to commemorate a day or season is certainly nothing new. However, it’s begun to grow
BACK TO THE FUTURE: A 30-year Retrospective FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Robert Moore - October 21, 2015March 25, 2016 Article by: Robert Moore 10/21/15 “Great Scott, has it been that long?” To quote one Dr. Emmett Brown is the perfect way to remind us all that it has in fact been thirty years since the first chapter in the much-revered time travel trilogy was first released to the world. In retrospect,
A look back on THE CABIN IN THE WOODS… FEATURED MOVIES/TV THINK PIECE by Josh Bradley - October 9, 2015March 25, 2016 A Halloween Special Article by: Josh Bradley Drew Goddard’s directorial debut The Cabin in the Woods (2012) is the horror movie to end all horror movies, in more ways than one. Goddard, who wrote Cloverfield (2008), several episodes of Lost, and most recently The Martian (2015), penned the script with fellow geek icon
