Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume 1’ Will Have You Hook, Line, and Sinker

Sex, in some form or another, has always been a spectator’s sport. That includes online pornography, reading a Playboy (just for the articles of course), or even painting nude models together for the sake of art. Despite rising hemlines and…

TV Review: The CW’s Reign: 1×13 “Consummation”

  This was the episode so many Reign fans had been waiting for: the royal wedding! The question always remained: who would Mary pick? As we saw that Mary’s heart had opened and decided on a future with Bash, the…

What To Watch This Weekend: Spike Lee’s Oldboy or Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy

The remake of Park Chan Wook’s cult classic Oldboy, directed by Spike Lee, did not get a warm reception from critics and was a box office disaster. Even Spike Lee and the film’s main star, Josh Brolin, criticized the version…

Jon’s Movie Review: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is a Divine Creature All Its Own

Film-making is an intense process that requires dozens of elements coming together in a near succinct synchronicity that only very few directors have come close to perfecting. This kind of perfection doesn’t come easy either; it requires  a keen eye…

TV Review: Arrow 2×14, “Time of Death”

  When I heard that Robert Knepper had been cast on Arrow, I was practically giddy. Prison Break certainly went through ups and downs throughout its 4 season run, but one could always count on Knepper to provide his particular…

The Young Folks Predict the 86th Academy Awards

We are just a couple days from Hollywood’s biggest and most prestigious night for film. Some may argue about the relevance of the Academy Awards in this day and age. Valid points are made, but at the same time, we…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×1, “Comrades”

Arriving just after the close of the Sochi Olympics, The Americans has returned to FX and it has done so in fine form.  We have returned to the world of espionage in Washington D.C. during the 1980s, where two Russian…