Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance — Didja notice that when Nicolas Cage was on SNL last week to hype this thing, they changed the wording of their “Get in the Cage” boilerplate just a smidge? Instead of saying that the Ghost Rider sequel has “the two key qualities of a classic Nic Cage film,”...
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True confession time: Somehow, I missed the news that Orlando expat Brian Bradley has a hand in Only Fools and Horses, a stateside adaptation of a British sitcom that’s going to pilot at ABC. Since I ordinarily monitor Bradley’s comings and goings with the obsessiveness of a proud grandma or a twice-detained stalker, this...
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island — Dwayne Johnson continues on his selfless quest to introduce the children of America to the works of Jules Verne, without ever actually mentioning Jules Verne. Or the act of reading. (PG) Safe House — See, now this is the sort of movie that tests your commitment to popular...
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How many years has it been since “I only watch the Super Bowl for the commercials” became a hipster cliché? A few years ago, I attended a party where the betting action was not on the outcome of the game itself, but on how many advertising tropes (incorrigible pets, anthropomorphized beverages) would be seen...
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Hey, see the title of this blog? It means we’re going deep into rumor and speculation about the arcane plot points of one of this year’s most anticipated releases. So if you want to maintain your innocence and avoid disappointment, you know what to do, right? Right! Don’t enroll at Full Sail. I mean,...
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Albert Nobbs — Reviewed this week. (R) A Dangerous Method — Reviewed this week. (Link pending.) (R) The Grey — Now fully into his second career as the world’s least likely action hero, Liam Neeson has to brave the punishing weather and vicious predators of the Alaskan wild. Or, as Todd Palin calls it,...
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My Dad once said that, if he had to pick any career other than teaching, he would have been a “futurist.” His reasoning was sound: You get to use your imagination, everybody treats you like you’re terribly smart, and by the time you’re proved wrong, you’re already dead. But that was before the advent...
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Tom Hanks dies in the World Trade Center collapse, leaving his son to sift through the emotional rubble in search of meaning. Directed by Stephen Daldry of The Hours and The Reader, which leaves absolutely no chance that anything about it will be overwrought. (PG-13) Haywire — Steven...
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You really know the classic Van Halen lineup is back to firing on all cylinders when they’re being pilloried by people who just don’t get it. Back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, the house critics at esteemed scholarly journals like People lambasted the group as lame inheritors to the throne that had...
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Beauty and the Beast 3D — Believe it or not, it’s been 21 years since Disney showed the world that Richard Nixon didn’t own a copyright on talking to china. Now the movie’s back in 3D, so everybody can have a good 360-degree chin-wag with the dinnerware. (G) Carnage — Reviewed this week. (R)...
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Fringe Fest 2013 reviews Arts & Culture: Our top seven picks By Jessica Bryce Young 5/22/2013
The Survivors Project News: Excerpts from ebook that gives sexual-abuse survivors a chance to tell their stories 5/22/2013
Album Review: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Daft Punk ascends to new heights of what-the-fuck on arguably the year's most anticipated release. By M.T. Richards 5/22/2013
Mills 50/ViMi Annual Manual 2013: From soup to beer-nuts 4/12/2013
This Little Underground Music: Our live music columnist talks about a new record club and reviews Tera Melos and Blood Ceremony. By Bao Le-Huu 5/22/2013
Attorney John Morgan backs marijuana legalization News: Local celeb-attorney is new chair of statewide marijuana advocacy organization United for Care By Billy Manes 4/24/2013