I got to watch an early screening of the indie dramedy Smashed, which hits theaters this weekend. The movie stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead like you’ve never seen her before. She plays a first-grade schoolteacher who…
Can you imagine Princess Leia without her hair bun headphone covers? What if she had been introduced with some simple pig tails or just plain loose hair? Oh the travesty! We’d be living in a…
I miss title sequences. I realized this while watching The First Wives Club two weeks ago. (Have you seen that into? It’s so colorful and inspiring!) Movies nowadays skip the opening credits, and jump right…
Confidence can be a hard thing to come by, but whenever I’m feeling a little down, I look to the power of movies. The characters films give us can boost our morale, take us out…
The other day, while re-watching the awful, but wildly entertaining The Faculty, I noticed something: geeky characters love photography. Peter Parker is not the only nerdy high schooler who likes to snap, snap, snap. There…
Sometimes summer is not all it’s hyped up to be. Sure, you’re out of school (if you’re still in school), the days are longer, and there are better movies in theaters, but TV sucks and,…
This past week I watched a ridiculous amount of deaths via The Walking Dead. I waited for season three to be over to catch up; and now that it’s all behind me, I’m convinced that…
W.C. Fields was totally right when he said never to work with children or animals. If you do, you run the risk of being completely overshadowed by their innocent charisma. Kids and pets will always…
There’s a lot of things that I miss from the 90s, like Tamagotchis, gangsta rap and Power Rangers. While I’ve proudly replaced most of these fads with modern ones, one obsession that I can’t renounce…