CD/DVD Review The English Beat Live! at the US Festival
by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter “There can only be one truly great festival of a lifetime, and it’s the US Festival.” – Homer Simpson. “What’s your best band?” was a common question heard round the playgrounds and municipal swimming pools…
Book Review: District Comics: An Unconventional History of Washington, DC
by Mike Favila, Reporter Recently, I was reading my neighborhood’s message board and our moderator Mike Rhode mentioned that he had written a story for a new comic anthology about Washington DC. I’m always interested in all things comic, so…
Blu-ray Review: The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor The Walking Dead have returned! The second season of the hit series from AMC and mastermind Robert Kirkman has finally made it’s way to our homes, just in time for marathons before the new season starts…
Blu-ray Review: Once Upon A Time-The Complete First Season
I can haz her jacket? Doubles as a cosplay for Rose Tyler. Win. Once upon a time, two fairy tale-based television shows were set to premiere in the same fall season. One was called Grimm, the other Once Upon A…
Movie Review: A Hit & Run look at the film – “Hit & Run”
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor If you are looking for something entertaining to watch at the theater this weekend, then Hit & Run is definitely a fun way to spend an evening. After being placed in witness protection following a bank job…
DVD Review: Power Rangers Seasons 1-7 (Part 2: Zeo – Lost Galaxy)
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor After exciting children every weekday afternoon for 155 episodes, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were no more. Goldar and Rito had accomplished the impossible and placed a bomb under the Command Center. Moments before it…
Movie Review: Total Recall
by Brian Burgoyne, Reporter Before I saw Total Recall, I thought that all remakes were just overdone, over-hyped movies bent not on telling a story but on making money for the studios. After watching the movie, my opinion has not changed….
Blu-ray Review: The Hunger Games
by Dan Stewart, Guest Reporter The latest craze earlier this year was the new film adaptation of The Hunger Games. It’s the story of a future United States, now called “Panem”. In this future, the government and upper class have…
Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy
by Kendrick Gaussoin, Junior Editor After 10 years, it may be that the original Bourne Trilogy was only a prequel. We were told The Bourne Ultimatum was the end, but instead it led us to this awesome, sick, fight-filled chase movie. Jason Bourne ended…
DVD Review: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Complete Series
by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor Back in 1993 when Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first premiered, it was uncool to be a fan of the show. A group of teenagers are given powers by an alien wizard, and told to go fight…
DVD Review: Transformers Prime – One Shall Stand
Transformers fans have had it pretty well within the past few years with the complete pop culture onslaught the Transformers license has been doing. The newest iteration of the TV show Transformers Prime has been knocking it out of the…
DVD Review: The Glades Season 2
by Karl Madsen, Editor How is it that there can be so many police shows on T.V., and yet every fall new cop shows get aired and every spring some of those shows get renewed? Do you ever wonder if…
DVD Review: Jiro Dreams Of Sushi
by Mike Favila, Reporter Jiro Dreams Of Sushi is centered around Jiro Ono, arguably one of the greatest sushi chefs EVER. Even at 85, he is still working and perfecting his craft, crafting the best sushi out of the finest…
Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
It’s no secret America loves to watch a hero fall only to rise up again like the proverbial phoenix and surpass the overwhelming odds stacked against them. It’s also no secret that with a title like The Dark Knight Rises,…
TV Review: Arrow “Pilot” Review
Ever since Smallville started branching out and including live action versions of the heroes of the DC Universe, fans of the hit television superhero show have clamored for a spinoff to feed their hunger of weekly comic book battles. One…