$9 Movie Trailers: Django Unchained
[$9 Trailers is a feature that examines movie trailers, and judges how well (or poorly) they execute their job of making me want to shell out nine bucks to see them.] In today’s installment of…
Four Criminally Underrated Cartoon TV Shows
There was a period of time in my life where nothing, not even my favorite baseball player ringing my doorbell and asking if I wanted to hit some batting practice with him, could stop me…
The Unreality Reading List (Based on Movies You Love)
While I’ve certainly seen my fair share of film and television, my true love is the written word. I’ve worked in bookstores for the past six years, interviewed some really cool authors (shameless plug), and…
Moonrise Kingdom and the Truth of Young Love
Midway through Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, young Sam sneaks his way into the girl’s dressing room. The three girls he finds inside are dressed as birds, awaiting their cues to take the stage in an…
$9 Movie Trailer: A Tale of Two “Braves”
Since they first dropped Toy Story on the world, Pixar has been like the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2: above the law. And deservedly so. With the exception perhaps of Cars 2, the animation studio…
Six Movie Bars Where I’d Like to Order a Drink
Booze may be universal, but where you drink it certainly isn’t. Cinema has afforded us with plenty of places to nurse a beer or start a brawl, but few bars are as memorable as the…
A Crude Masterpiece: The 10 Best Moments of South Park
Every generation is defined by certain pop culture phenomena. In the 1930s and 1940s, there was the Jack Benny radio program. In the early 1970s, we had The Brady Bunch. For Generation Y, there is…
In Defense of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Character archetypes are as old as the movies themselves. There’s the strong, brooding male; the precocious, insightful child and in recent years, the advent Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG). The term was first coined by…
Seven Horror Films That Defy Their Genre
After seeing Cabin in the Woods this past weekend, I was reminded of how great a horror film can be when it steps outside the confines of its genre. This isn’t to say that “traditional”…