Jon Winkler
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Jon Winkler is a 27-year-old movie/music nerd in Hudson, NH by way of Merrimack, NH. He loves watching, listening to, dissecting, mocking and talking about movies, television, music, video games and comics. He enjoys a good cheeseburger, believes CDs and vinyl are superior, likes to make people smile if they're having a rough day, and is rumored to be Batman (unconfirmed).

From the Record Crate: Foo Fighters – “The Colour and the Shape” (1997)

What a tragedy it would’ve been if Foo Fighters broke up before their big hit. Despite the album cover showcasing connection, The Colour and the Shape is actually shrouded in breakups, one inside the band and one outside the band.…

Album Review: Paramore – “After Laughter”

Paramore is dead, long live Paramore! The former Warped Tour mavens are not the same band that made “Misery Business” nearly a decade ago. They’ve gone through personal drama, lineup changes, nuptials, and the fact that the punk-pop/emo genre they…

Deadpool Animated Series Coming To FX

The Merc with a Mouth has a video game and a movie to his name, but soon he’ll be on your TV screens. Marvel has announced that FXX has placed a series order with Marvel Television and FX Productions for…

Album Review: Gorillaz – “Humanz”

The most important thing to remember about Gorillaz is that they’re not real. No matter what feelings a listener gets from songs about alienation, the staleness of the surrounding culture, or just taking action instead of moping, the “band” playing…

TV Review: Dear White People Season 1

Simply put, writer/director Justin Simien’s feature film debut Dear White People was one of 2014’s best movies. Sharp, funny, and extremely relevant, Dear White People shined a light on the modern forms of racism in backhanded ethnicity compliments and assumed…

Movie Review: Rupture

During my viewing of Rupture, a friend of mine was streaming a session of the board game Life on Facebook Live. Despite the fact that said film I was watching contained scenes of body horror, spiders, and deformed aliens, I…

Movie Review: Little Boxes

Racial profiling has an interesting inverse effect on the victim and the offender. The offender uses racial profiling to group black people together into one definite set of stereotypes because he or she thinks they’re all the same. But, according…