Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
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On March 6, “Mass Effect 3,” the final game in the space opera trilogy, was released. The series has been popular from the beginning due to its interactive storytelling which gives each individual player control over many choices that affect the course of the game.…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
There are three things in this life that are all but certain: death, taxes, and Hollywood pandering to itself at the Academy Awards. Hollywood once again proved its vanity by awarding the art-house films with the big prizes while ignoring the blockbusters that delighted audiences…
It can be hard out there in the post-grad world. It can be even harder when booking Daytrotter sessions, getting married, releasing singles, writing an album, having a baby, touring the east and west coasts and preparing a brand new tour with accompanied by a…
I desperately want to remake “Gone.” It’s been out for a week, but I think America is ready for a good version of “Gone.” Movie theaters could have posters up that said something like “See the original version of ‘Gone’” and right next to it,…
People have been reading and performing Shakespeare for centuries. No writer has been studied more in schools or adapted into more films. Every English major at Bradley (including myself) has to take one Shakespeare course to graduate, sometimes leading to either love or hatred of…
When popular music historians look at the greatest musical innovation of the 2000s, they’re going to point to the garage rock revolution. In those years, bands like The White Stripes, the Shins, Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs helped to free rock from riff-less indie pioneers,…
Batman Returns Did you think we were going to go with “The Dark Knight?” No, that’s far too easy and really, it barely feels like a sequel to “Batman Begins” and it doesn’t entirely work as a follow up. “Batman Returns,” on the other hand,…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…