Book Review: Miserere, an Autumn Tale
by Michelle Stettler-Gill, Books Editor Miserere is the debut novel by writer Teresa Frohock, a complex world done in parallel to earth referred to as Woerld. The novel is not so subtle in its religious overtones, in Woerld all of earth’s…
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Erin Hatch, Reviewer The Civil War may be the most traumatic event in American History, a bloody conflict that determined our national identity while leaving wounds that linger even in today’s contentious politics. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter turns this…
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln was one of the most important Presidents in our country’s history, which is why I imagine Seth Grahame-Smith chose to write a novel in his quirky style of serious-story-meets-pop-culture-fantastical-addition. He’s done this with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,…
Movie Review: Brave
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Brave is set in medieval Scotland where our new Disney Princess, Merida DunBroch (Kelly Macdonald – Boardwalk Empire, Harry Potter) is coming of age and is commanded by her parents King Fergus (Billy Connolly – X-Files: I…
Blu-ray Review: John Carter
Once in a long while a story comes along that changes the way certain stories are done… a story that inspires countless other stories after it for years to come due to how it changes things. Back in the 1920’s,…
Blu-ray Review: Men In Black I & II
Back in the mid-nineties, comic book adaptations-to-movies were still in their infancy. Hollywood was looking towards comics closely for inspiration, as several movies were vaguely adapted from comics around this time. Such titles as Mystery Men, Tank Girl and Men…
Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
by Chuck Lindas, Reporter Those of us who really enjoyed films such as Cyrus and Jeff Who Lives at Home, both written and directed by the brothers Duplass Jay and Mark, may have been very excited when we saw the…
Movie Review: Rock of Ages
What do you want to do with your life? by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief In the late 1980s I listened to classic rock and heavy metal all day long. I had long, bleached blond hair and even had a hair band…
Blu-ray Review: Meatballs (1979)
by Chris Learned Kane, Reviewer. One of the most perplexing and annoying (but nonetheless true) ironies of adulthood: walking down a candy aisle and realizing at once two things: you could totally afford to buy ALL of it; and that…
Wii Game Review: Pandora’s Tower
by Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor (Australia) Pandora’s Tower gives a new meaning to the term “Chains of love”, as players take on the role of hero Aeron (read: “bitch-whipped girly-boy”) as he uses his magical chain to vanquish monsters…
DVD Review and Giveaway: Phineas and Ferb: The Perry Files
by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief “There’s a hundred and four days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it. LIKE MAYBE…” So begins…
Movie Review: Prometheus
When filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the evolution of sci-fi suspense, Prometheus is the natural selection to show us the creation of horror and the horror of creation. by Matt Sernaker and Kevin Gaussoin, Editors The official synopsis says “Ridley…
Anime DVD Review: Mongolian Chop Squad S.A.V.E Edition
by Mike Favila, Reporter It’s been many years since I’ve sat down and watched Beck (or as it’s known here, Mongolian Chop Squad) and I was really excited to rewatch it and see how well it had held up. Would…
Blu-ray Review: One for the Money
by Karl Madsen, Editor I have to be honest, when I first heard that there was another Katherine Heigl project coming out I did what many others did – I had a few laughs at the project’s expense. Then I…
Comic Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Volume 3 – Issues 24 & 25
Have you ever been completely obsessed by a particular comic book series only to have it abruptly end without a proper sense of closure, with multiple questions left unanswered and various plot mysteries left unexplained? If you are anything like me you will have experienced this when Image’s run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to a sudden close with issue 23. As this leg of the turtles’ journey involved many drastic changes to the turtles and their universe it was considered to no longer be “canon” for Mirage’s TMNT universe, and when Volume 4 began all of the events from Volume 3 were ignored and forgotten about. Until now…