Film Review: The Change-Up

For the past few weeks I have agonizingly pouted over email after email announcing upcoming screenings that I could not make it to in my broken state, so by the time The Change-Up rolled around I was at my breaking point. With the giddiness of a child refusing to stop believing in Santa come Christmas […]

Motion City Soundtrack Retrospective

Usually, calling a band “immature” is a bad thing. This usually comes when an artist or band doesn’t branch out from their normal sound or material in which they record. Some bands mature in a drastic new direction (Linkin Park, for example) while others tend to stay in their comfort zone (All Time Low). However, […]

Delayed Gaming Response – Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

With all of the big name games stealing the public’s attention last year, from Mass Effect 2 to Red Dead Redemption to Call of Duty: Black Ops, it’s understandable that some pretty amazing games didn’t get the recognition they deserved on the grand scale. For me, the most overlooked would be Enslaved: Odyssey to the […]

Film Review: Attack the Block

Joe Cornish makes his feature debut with Attack the Block, a fun, fast paced, creature feature that any fans of the genre should rush out to see.

Gaming Review – L.A. Noire

The sweltering summer day’s perspiration trailed down the outside pane of glass, clinging to the hope of making it inside. The scene inside was not much better. The shadow of the day cut across the wounded body of the young woman, broken and bruised from the deep cuts in her abdomen as she waits for […]

Artists You Should Know Before Your Friends Do 2011

Have you ever listened to a friend talk about what “great new music” they have been listening to? That topic is usually followed up by saying that “They knew them first.” As annoying as that is, we all do it in our most subtle ways (like saying that “I love Three-Oh-H” instead of saying “I […]

Review of Sister City’s “Carbon Footprint”

About a year ago, I picked up an album that would later become one of my favorites of all time; Brand New’s 2001 release Your Favorite Weapon. The album was a breath of fresh air in a time where NSYNC was popular and Shaggy was a thing. Songs like “Jude Law and a Semester Abroad,” […]

Review of Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Debut

Yup, you are reading the title correctly; the band’s name is Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. Now luckily, if you think that is too long to say, you can always call them by their abbreviated name, D.R.U.G.S. That’s right, if you have to explain who you are listening to, you can say that you are […]

Review: Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh is an incredibly sweet and charming reboot of the classic series that is full of some great songs, by the cast and She & Him, and some beautiful animation. This telling of Pooh is a throwback of sorts, aiming to recreate the look and feel of the original animated works by the […]

Review of Alkaline Trio’s “Damnesia”

MTV sure knows how to beat a dead horse. In the late 1980’s, MTV came out with UnPlugged, a television show that gave artists a chance to sit down, and play their favorite songs to a very small crowd of people. Bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and most infamously Nirvana, have all graced […]