There are stories that need to be told and stories that earn the right to be told. J.R. Moehringer’s best-selling 2006 memoir, The Tender Bar, fits squarely in the latter. Mining from the author’s challenging childhood, this acclaimed text often…
The Yellow Birds Movie Review: An Inoffensive but Redundant Mess
The Yellow Birds begins with a tranquil image of flowing water, followed by a graceful camera pan over American troops marching cautiously over a war-ravaged Iraqi landscape. It’s an unusually peaceful snapshot of the Iraq war described from an almost…
SDCC ’17: Warner Brothers Blows the Roof Off with DC, Blade Runner 2049 and Ready Player One
After today’s WB panel, one thing is clear. Warner Bros Pictures is not taking the success of Wonder Woman lying down. Their panel, presented with a giant panoramic screen, oozed with confident energy, with the guests presenting themselves as the rockstars…
SDCC ’17: Watch the first teaser for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One
The science fiction genre these days is littered with remakes, reboots, sequels and genre hybrids, and so rarely does something that feels fresh come to the forefront. Not to say that the sci-fi genre has been failing, necessarily, but it…
Movie Review: ‘Dark Places’
Dark Places is about Libby Day (Charlize Theron), whose family was brutally murdered on their Kansas farm. Her brother was charged for the crime at the age sixteen. Libby’s confused confession and rumors of devil worship landed him in jail…
Allyson’s Movie Review: ‘Mud’
Mud is an odyssey through a young boy’s earliest loss of innocence. It’s about an adolescent’s first lesson in the grief that can follow love, the violence that can follow a hero, the murky gray that entirely encompasses a being…