Video Game Review: PayDay 2

After driving all over the city to find a copy, I finally got to sit down and enjoy PayDay 2. However, enjoyment only comes when the right conditions are prevalent.

Film Review: Short Term 12

Short Term 12 reaches perfection for nearly 2/3 of its run time before giving over its natural storytelling to forced drama that just doesn’t work anywhere near as well as the rest of the film.

Book Review: Through The Door by Jodi McIsaac

Between all of the stories of the Greek and Norse gods, there’s hardly enough space in my brain for anything else out there when it comes to the old beliefs of cultures.

Music Review: Now Voyager’s ‘Tell Tale Hearts’

Two year ago, Belgian mathcore outfit Now Voyager wowed me with their tight musicianship and interesting ideas. Those ideas are turned up a notch on Tell Tale Hearts, a four song EP that doubles as a metal wake up call.

TV Without Commercials: The Newsroom 2.3-2.7

It took more than three quarters of the season to learn why everyone on the News Night staff has been getting interrogated by the mean spirited lawyer lady, but now we finally know the truth. It’s not the Genoa story that’s making them seek legal council, it’s Jerry Dantana.

Book Review: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter

I have a friend that has been singing the praises of Terry Pratchett for as long as I’ve known her, sharing little moments from the novels that make the stories he has to share sound like fantastical joyrides. Yet somehow I have put off experiencing what this man has to offer until I saw the […]

Film Review: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is an impressive debut from David Lowery and is just a smidgen shy of complete excellence.

Dissecting You’re Next: A Strong Reminder To Lock Your Doors

Lauren: It’s hard to beat The Strangers when it comes to terrifying home invasion films. Just ask The Purge from earlier this year, which lost itself in the bog of a message forced into what should have been a scary fun film of a family defending their own. What a disappointing fail. Good thing You’re […]

Dissecting The Spectacular Now: Coming of Age the Wrong Way

The Spectacular Now, from James Ponsoldt, is a grounded look at the coming of age story, but it comes apart when you realize it doesn’t have much depth or anything new to say in the genre.

Film Review: The World’s End

Edgar Wright’s latest, The World’s End, is fighting to not be his weakest film overall, yet it’s still great and one of the better films of the summer.