TV Review: Girls 202 – “I Get Ideas”

Girls is all about break ups and “pretty people jobs” this week as characters start a new, cut the cords and go to jail.

Film Review: The Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back and his return is an entertaining action picture that is exactly what it thinks it is.

Film Review: Mama

Keeping with the theme, I decided to take my own mom to the screening of Mama. I’m not sure if she’s forgiven me yet.

TV Rants & Ramblings: Arrow 1.10 – “Burned”

Arrow is back after its winter break, taking the place of those holiday fireplace screensavers with a little fire of its own.

Book Review: Heads in Beds – A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky

Well, it is officially time to eschew the notion that your life must be interesting in some way to write a memoir. If Jacob Tomsky can do it, then anyone can do it. But I hope your attempt turns out to be more stimulating than Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and […]

For Your Renting Pleasure

This week’s “For Your Renting Pleasure” includes a remake/reimagining and a sequel, Dredd and Men In Black 3, both disappointing for numerous reasons.

Music Review: A$AP Rocky’s ‘Long.Live.ASAP’

One can’t really praise nor criticize Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky without sounding redundant from everyone else. I wasn’t the biggest fan of his when his first mixtape Live.Love.A$AP when it came out a couple of years ago – mainly because I wasn’t a fan of the cloud rap type of production. But in the time […]

Book Review: Brain on Fire – My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed with no recollection of how you got there or how long you’ve been there. Budding journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up to this nightmare when she was 24 years old. In her gripping memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, the reader is invited to journey with Cahalan to […]

TV Review: Girls 201 – “It’s About Time”

Girls is back for Season 2 and we more or less pick up right where we left off in both story and quality; top notch.

Music Review: Yo La Tengo’s ‘Fade’

No, I don’t know alternative darlings Yo La Tengo because of their massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) back catalog. No, I know Yo La Tengo for because of their music being featured in independent movie soundtracks, including Juno and Adventureland. I know that sounds awful, especially since the band has put out twelve albums […]