Arts
Review: Manimal & Automan: The Complete Series
Manimal & Automan not just simply old TV shows you can pull up on Netflix and giggle to, this is an actual investment for some lost television that has been unsoiled by the modern advances in special effects and film making. … read more
Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
My first experience in a movie theater was for a screening of Return of the Jedi. The original trilogy regularly played on my television, I wore a different Star Wars shirt to school every day for weeks and obsessively collected the action figures. So, you can imagine my reaction to the first prequel in 1999 as not being favorable, but let’s not get into that. … read more
Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq: This Is An Emergency
Chi-Raq, Spike Lee’s latest satire-meets-agitprop, is incendiary, uneven and heavy-handed with the polemics, musical cuts and rhythm-centric dialogue. It’s also the most electrifying that we’ve seen from Lee in the past decade. … read more
Review: Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXXIV
If there’s ever a time to be an Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan, aside from when the show was actually on the air, it’s now. … read more
Review: The Night Before
In the vein of cult favorites like Bad Santa and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Jonathan Levine’s holiday adventure lets the children sleep all snug in their beds while the adults drink, smoke weed and get all screwed up in their heads. … read more
Review: The 33
Anyone alive in 2010 most likely remembers the mining accident that occurred on Aug. 5, 2010, which buried 33 miners 2,300 feet underground and trapped them down there for 69 days. … read more
Review: I Need A Dodge! Joe Strummer On The Run
Nick Hall’s I Need A Dodge! is a brilliant tale that documents the largely unexplored period of Joe Strummer’s escape to Spain during the fall of The Clash. … read more
Review: Trumbo
Refusing to succumb to peer pressure, Trumbo and the Hollywood 10 were sentenced to prison, but they fired back by working underground under pseudonyms. … read more
Review: The Peanuts Movie
Ever since the trailer for The Peanuts Movie was released, I have been dying to see the late Charles M. Schulz’s creations in 3D animation on the big screen. … read more
Review: Space Dandy: Season 2
Space Dandy doesn’t take itself seriously, and in today’s anime climate of gritty realism and gut-wrenching drama, it’s a breath of…well, not fresh air, but maybe a breath of air that’s filled with hair spray, cheap cologne, and the smell of grease from retro diner food. … read more
Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries: Season 1
Mike Tyson Mysteries is a funny show with some nostalgia points thrown in, but its clearly for a target audience who actually know who Mike Tyson is. … read more
Living In Oblivion
The stylistic choices of Living in Oblivion are beautiful. The film alternates between using black and white and color for its shots, depending on the act. … read more
