The Walking Dead Review: Episode 2.13 "Beside The Dying Fire"
The biggest complaint of The Walking Dead this season is that there haven’t been enough, you know, Walking Dead. It just wouldn’t be a finale, though, without a couple busloads of extras in makeup and a few dozen killshots. read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsAlan Wake's American Nightmare Review (XBLA)
Alan Wake understands the power of words. In 2010’s Alan Wake the titular best-selling horror writer lived through a novel he was forced to write by a black cloud dredged up from the bottom of a lake. In the downloadable follow-up American Nightmare he’s stuck in a TV show he wrote. We’re lucky he’s never written a videogame, or else the feedback would melt our 360s into toxic puddles.... read more
Found in: Games, ReviewsCommunity: "Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts" (3.11)
Like the rest of you, I’ve been impatiently waiting for Community to return. There’s been an incredible amount of support from its fanbase, as well as a smaller, but perhaps equally vocal, amount of criticism of the show. Community, it’s been said, is just gimmicks. It’s all pop culture parodies or in-jokes. It’s hermetic, only concerned with the small world within the show. These points have varying levels of truth to them, but one of the most important things that they miss is that there’s nothing else like Community on television. It’s not perfect, but it is original and unique.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsBruce Springsteen Performs with Members of Low Anthem, Arcade Fire at SXSW
It was only the second show of his tour with an expanded E Street Band—and almost certainly the smallest venue he’ll play this year. read more
Found in: Music, News21 Jump Street
I’ll admit it. I groaned inwardly when I first heard they were making a 21 Jump Street movie. There was even some communal, commiserative groaning in a conversation or two with movie-going friends. A movie based on a Fox television series remembered mainly for helping launch the career of Johnny Depp and briefly reminding the world that Dom DeLuise had a son—does it get any less exciting than that?... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsNatural Selection
Natural Selection starts with a boner. It’s an old boner, and it belongs to Abe (John Diehl), a Christian zealot who’s refused sex to his 40-year-old wife for nearly 25 years. So it’s an old, unused boner—one that sends Abe’s wife on the misadventure of her life, prods Abe’s illegitimate, cooked-out son to finally get his life in order, and nearly puts Abe in his grave.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe Deep Blue Sea
Terence Davies belongs to that select group of filmmakers—alongside Kubrick and Terrence Mallick—who get around to making a movie once or twice a decade and whose films become exemplars of a singular vision and immaculate craftsmanship. Since 1988’s Distant Voices, Still Lives, Davies has created five features and one documentary that, taken together, form a remarkable mosaic of Davies’ autobiography and memories of post-WW2 English life weaved into themes of heartbreak and isolation. His latest, The Deep Blue Sea, an adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play, fits neatly into that body of work as it follows Hester (Rachel Weisz), a... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe Kid with a Bike
The Kid with a Bike continues the Belgian writing-directing brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s extraordinary run of charting the lives of European down-and-outers navigating difficult moral and spiritual terrain. That time and again they’ve managed to do so incisively, yet with an emotionally detached tone, speaks to their ability to elicit complex audience reactions with a sure, minimalist style. The Kid with a Bike is no exception.... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsJohn Carter
Based on the series of not-Tarzan novels first written by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1911, Andrew Stanton’s John Carter is a disappointment over 100 years in the making. And considering how many established sci-fi/fantasy cinematic classics owe their very existence to Burroughs’ original stories, that’s really too bad. Many directors have attempted to get a John Carter film off the ground—most recently, Iron Man’s Jon Favreau—but only Finding Nemo and Wall-E helmer Stanton had been able to successfully convince the suits at Disney to back his vision to the tune of a reported $250 million. The money’s certainly accounted... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsNew Girl Review: "Control" (Episode 1.16)
On _New Girl_, no one has garnered more laughs from me than Schmidt. He’s a cocky, organized, control freak that is prone to making himself more so throughout every episode and unusual Schmidt witticism. Out of all the characters, including Jess, Schmidt has probably become the most fleshed out character. We know more about his past, his job, why he is who he is and his romantic life than any of the other characters at this point. It almost seems like Schmidt is becoming more of a lead than even Jess. While I have no problem with the switch of focus, it’s a shame that “Control”’s writing isn’t up to par with what Max Greenfield can do with this character. read more
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