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Movie Review: Elysium

In the future, things aren’t going well for the people of Earth. Over population is rampant, while healthcare and quality of life are at an all time low. With things taking a turn for the worse, mankind’s elite have decided to abandon life on Earth, and now live in a giant space station called Elysium. This floating paradise in the sky can only be accessed by “citizens” (aka the wealthy), while the working class remains down below on the dying planet. Only one man can make a difference and restore balance to this dystopian future, and that one man is…Matt Damon? Matt Damon (The Bourne Trilogy) stars in the new futuristic tale Elysium, from Director Neill Blomkamp (District 9).

DVD Review: Another

Does the idea of witnessing a classroom full of terrified Japanese students desperately trying to survive a deadly curse sound like fun to you? If the answer is “yes”, then check out our review of Another.

Movie Review: Blue Jasmine

There are so many thoughts rushing through Jasmine’s head that she can’t help but spout them out. She needs to voice her story, needs to say it even if nobody wants to hear it, or even if there is nobody around to hear it at all. Blue Jasminethe latest film by prolific filmmaker Woody Allen, tracks the scrambled thoughts of a thoroughly broken woman who tries to pull her life back together. Woody Allen theoretically still has a reputation for being a comedian, and this movie could theoretically be called a comedy, but despite how funny this movie is, it’s actually a full-on modern tragedy.

Blu-ray Review: Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

The DC Universe is known for hosting some of the most iconic characters in comics. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, the Canterbury Cricket… the list goes on. Fans of DC and Warner Brothers’ animated series have seen the Justice League work together to fight impossible odds time after time,  always moving past their personal differences in order to save the day. Now, in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, it’s time to see them in a slightly different light: emotionally scarred and desperately trying to kill each other.

Recap: Video Game High School Season 2 Episode 1

After having raised over $800,000 for the new season, Freddie Wong, Matt Arnold, Will Campos and Brian Firenzi are bringing us a new season of video gaming goodness in six TV-length episodes of around thirty minutes each.

Movie Review: The Wolverine

When is a super hero movie not a super hero movie? Does the inclusion of characters with strange and supernatural powers automatically consign a film to the increasingly dominant sub-genre mixing the most potent aspects of the science fiction and action categories, or is there wiggle room for a film to defy the tropes of the comic book super hero film as popularized by Marvel and DC in recent years?

The Wolverine evokes those questions despite the comic book origins of its characters and their super human abilities, because at its core it is an action film with a theme that questions the nature of mortality and immortality.

Blu-ray Review: 6 Souls

It might not have been quite what I signed up for, but it was still a pretty good ride by the time I’d reached the end. The plot doesn’t smash you upside the head with the paranormal the way other films in the genre sometimes do. In fact, the paranormal elements really don’t come into full play until almost three quarters of the way through the movie. I’d venture into saying that up until that point, Moore’s character doesn’t even believe them to be occurring (and not in the way some horror films fall prey to, with her disbelieving things that are right in front of her).

DVD Review: Trek Nation

Chelsea Doyle goes where many men and women have gone before to watch the birth of Star Trek in the documentary Trek Nation. From the 60s to right this instant, the popular science fiction series has proven the power of fandom and imagination. Join Eugene Roddenberry, son of Gene Roddenberry, as he steps into his father’s intense past and tries to find the man only other people knew.

TV Review: Skins 7×01 “Fire” Pt 1

by Jachelle Overstreet, Reporter For the past six years, the UK drama Skins has followed the lives of a group of teenagers as they navigate their way through Roundview College. For its seventh and final season, the series deviated from…

Movie Review: Despicable Me 2

Written by: Jennifer Bay, Editor The colorful sequel to one of Universal DreamWorks’s most loved movies is finally here, with more minions than ever!  Despicable Me 2 shows us what happens when an evil villain leaves the game to be…