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by Kyle Armstrong
The beginning of the Flood Tide performance showed what would seem to be random short films, that is until you actually get into the film itself, that is when it starts making much more sense. As seen in the beginning of the film, it is shown in more of an American Be…
by Kyle Armstrong
For the October season, why not go for something creepy, something eerie. How about a musical? As for modern day, live action musicals, Sweeney Todd may possibly be my favorite. It is weird to compare Oliver! to Sweeney Todd, but when I think of the two, I think of how …
by Kyle Armstrong
Here it is, the film that started a new kind of franchise for Marvel movies. Iron Man, like Blade, X-Men, and even Spider-Man, gave Marvel the fighting chance to offer us a movie franchise. But "Iron Man" is what it needed to start it all! As apprehensive as the company may h…
by Cameron Ross Price
I’m going to be perfectly honest with you: I had no idea that Guardians of the Galaxy existed before I watched the trailer for the first time. I’ll pause to let the comic book enthusiasts boo (it’s ok they’ve earned it). Yet, while I was clearly missing o…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Directed by: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper
A talking raccoon and a tree.
That just can’t work.
Marvel’s lost it.
The big, goofy guy from “Parks & Rec” is going to star?
A wrestler …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Director: Luc Besson
Starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman
There’s a good idea at the heart of Lucy, and some really good concepts. The performances are fine and it’s much more of a “thinking” movie than we’re used to during the summer months,…
by Kyle Armstrong
Here is the Batman that inspired a new generation of the characters adaptation into media. And here is the most mysterious and unsuspecting Batman of them all, seeing that not even the audience could see Michael Keaton portraying Batman as well as he did.
There is a …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Directed by John Carney
Starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo
Despite my complete lack of musical talent — or maybe because of it — I’m a sucker for the “songwriter/creative process” kind of film, and “Begin Again” falls squarely into the “Once” genre. A…
by Cameron Ross Price
When DreamWorks released How To Train Your Dragon four years ago it was met with immediate critical and commercial success. When I went to see the sequel How To Train Your Dragon 2 this year, I was ecstatic to find that my new favorite DreamWorks franchise had brok…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and Gary Oldman
To avoid the “uncanny valley” — that zone where things seem both too real to be fake and too fake to be real for the movie audience to accept — filmmakers have to get the …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
One of the first images we see of Roger Ebert in the documentary Life Itself, based on the critic’s autobiography of the same name, is of a man ravaged by cancer, lower jawbone removed and currently bedridden from a fractured femur.
It’s hard to squar…
by Kyle Armstrong 
Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolfman, etc. had been pushed aside to bring in the new monsters. Like Jason Vorhees, Freddy Kruger, and Michael Myers, but were the classics forgotten? Here is a film that says “No, and they should not be”. What makes these c…
by Kyle Armstrong
Here is… the X-Men reunion fans have been waiting for, mixing more recent actors with older more established ones, and even adding a few new characters to the mix along the way. Here is… the X-Men storyline many have been waiting for; and as far as I know many went home pleased…
by Bryan Renfro
This… this is the reason I go to the movies. Every once and a while I see something that is so captivating as a movie-going experience that I am reminded why I love it so much. Johnathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin” is such an undertaking, both visually and structurally, that it…
So since we are geeks, who quite often stray from one area of pop culture into another...
It's time for a TV Tangent... from Violet H
Since I forget to turn the television off when I go to bed some nights I occasionally awake to unknown TV in the morning, such as the Hulu comedy series "…
by k.k.
Well, things have been pretty bleak out here in LA for post-production digital FX folk. Many more facilities have been closed. More people competing for fewer jobs. The feeling is that soon the movie industry will no longer exist in LA. There is still TV but a lot of that has been outs…
So since we are geeks, who quite often stray over from one area of pop culture into another - we're going to start
featuring some written thoughts on television as well. So with that having been stated...
It's time for a TV Tangent... from Violet H
Reasons to watch (or not watch) Community …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
My wife and I recently attended the "The Yeti Spaghetti Show", where the audience was asked if they would like to see a “bad” film or an “epically bad” film. The crowd, as was its nature, chose the “epically bad” film. While I would agree with the word “epic…
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
Directed by Jose Padilha
Starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton and Samuel L. Jackson
Rated PG-13
It’s pretty easy to determine if a reboot film is a financial success. For the film to be considered an artistic success, however, it has a little …
by Dave "The Conduit" Davis
The difference between a symbol and a hero is that a symbol isn’t real — its value is solely made up by what those who believe in it impart to it. A hero is a person who does the right thing at the right time.
In The Hunger Games: Catching F…