Reaching legendary status in music is predictably difficult because of its unpredictable nature. NWA may not have been the first group of its kind, but it certainly was the group that did it best. Their anger and outrage reverberate from the…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Love & Mercy” Unveils Brian Wilson
There is an intrinsic, symbiotic relationship between an artist and his artwork. Neither can truly exist without the other. Most of the time, it is impossible to separate the two, but it is possible to hate one and like the…
Jon’s Movie Review: “San Andreas” Has More Faults Than Fault Lines
California is to destructive, natural disasters what New York is to monster attacks. Both cause large scale destruction and the annihilation of thousands. Of the two, natural disasters are typically the most terrifying because they are the most likely to happen with…
California is going under in ‘San Andreas’ teaser trailer starring Dwayne Johnson
Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema have revealed the first teaser trailer for the Dwayne Johnson vehicle “San Andreas” today. After the San Andreas Fault gives, it unleashes a massive earthquake centered in California. Dwayne Johnson stars as a…
Jon’s Movie Review: The real enemy of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ is all of the back stories
I grew up on Spider-Man and remember running around making the web-shooting/rock-and-roll hand signs and attacking the devious Doctor Octopus (the vacuum cleaner), the dastardly Vulture (our pet bird Peaches), and the fierce Lizard (our ficus tree). I took down…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ is Somberly Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Getting older doesn’t necessarily mean things are better. Sure, you can pretty much do whatever you want, wear whatever you want, and eat whatever you want, but sometimes the blissful ignorance that comes with youth is appealing. Life is full…
Allyson’s Movie Review: 12 Years A Slave
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave without fail is definitively a landmark film. This film paints a portrait of human depravity and the evil that can consume individuals, how that evil manifests itself throughout the years, the overwhelming compassion that…