Guided By Voices: English Little League
It truly sucks that the man who delivered us the near-perfect Bee Thousand almost 20 years ago is the same man who now is the butt of so many jokes. read more
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Multi-Platform)
Pretending to be bad is the only thing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon doesn't succeed at. read more
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa
The Tibetans have obviously never read Yoko Ogawa. For 25 years, the Japanese writer has woven tales of evils whispered by people who are more delusional and dangerous than they seem. read more
How I Met Your Mother Review: "The Bro Mitzvah" (Episode 8.22)
We’re counting down the episodes until Barney marries Robin, and it’s time for the ultimate bachelor party. read more
Vandaveer: Oh Willie Please...
New folk revival bands like Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers and The Avett Brothers reimagine old-time music as uniformly fervent and life-affirming and white, but there’s some fucked-up shit in the American songbook: odes to deviant sex that would make E.L. James blush, descriptions of crimes so brutal they make Grand Theft Auto look like Super Mario Brothers and existential crises so bleak they give new meaning to the term “Great Depression.” read more
Star Trek Review (Multi-Platform)
It's the Star Trek V of games. read more
Rectify Review: "Modern Times" (Episode 1.03)
While Daniel Holden might now be free, much of the community has doubts about his innocence. read more
Post Tenebras Lux
Fading Away Only a dream Just a memory Without anywhere to stay -Neil Young Carlos Reygadas’ fourth film, Post Tenebras Lux begins with what, in retrospect, appear to be two dreams. They both become nightmares.... read more
Game of Thrones Review - "Kissed By Fire" (Episode 3.5)
Beginning this week, Shane Ryan and Josh Jackson will team up to review each new episode of Game of Thrones. read more
The Good Wife Review: "What's in the Box" (Episode 4.22)
You know when you cook Thanksgiving dinner and everything on the table looks beautiful and delicious? But if you go into the kitchen, it’s littered with dirty dishes, open bags of flour, and basically looks like a disaster area? read more
Mad Men Review: "The Flood" (Episode 6.05)
I'm not sure how this would have played last week. read more
42
The entire life of Jackie Robinson is a rich subject for a film adaptation, not that this would be obvious after viewing 42, Brian Helgeland’s fourth feature film. The youngest of five, Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers in 1919. As a youth, he was a gang member (briefly), an accomplished track runner, football, tennis and baseball player, as well as a military man. (He was a member of the 761st “Black Panthers” Tank Battalion.) Robinson often spoke out against racism and suffered as a result. Long before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Robinson was courtmartialed... read more
Graceland
Take the worst day you’ve ever had at your job and multiply it by ten. That still probably won’t compare with the day that Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes) is having in Graceland.... read more
Community: "Basic Human Anatomy" (Episode 4.11)
At this point in time, I'm well aware that it's too much to ask for an episode of Community to completely forego pop culture parodies, so the question is really what makes some of these good and others, almost exclusively in this fourth season, awful read more
Mud
Mud combines the poignance of a boy coming to terms with life’s realities with the excitement of top-notch suspense. read more
Kon-Tiki
If the mission depicted in Kon-Tiki had a motto, it’d be, “Here’s hoping this works.” Much of the film takes place on a primitive balsa-wood raft that’s meant to float 5,000 miles from Peru to the Polynesian islands. The vessel’s course relies on ocean currents to make the journey, and if anything goes wrong, six men will be stranded in the middle of the ocean.... read more
Upstream Color
If Shane Carruth’s time-traveling debut Primer was about outthinking what you might do in the future, his second movie, Upstream Color, is about deciphering why you feel the way you do right now. This is not by any means an easy question to answer, and Carruth measures the distance from our actions to our understanding with all the confusion and swirls of emotion that accompany our worst decisions. He does so in a way that taps into some of the best elements of the current American moviescape—the editing is crisp and pushes the story along at a clip, the performances... read more
Battleblock Theater (XBLA)
You do stuff, and it's fun, so you keep doing it. read more
The Big Wedding
Don’t be fooled by the marketing campaign for The Big Wedding. The pastel-hued poster may look as sweet as a wedding cake—it’s even tiered—but the screwball comedy from writer-director Justin Zackham (scribe on The Bucket List) contains unexpected layers of salty language, bitter political incorrectness and pungent sex that your mother may not be aware of when she deems it appropriate for her movie group. It’s not. Seriously, Robert De Niro goes down on Susan Sarandon in the very first scene.... read more
The Americans Review: "The Oath" (Episode 1.12)
As much as The Americans is about marriage and espionage, it is also the story of two women being used as pawns in the Cold War. Martha and Nina are each being duped by men who claim to care deeply about them. Both of them made big moves in “The Oath.” read more
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