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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“The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” Due to the size of its map and the amount of things there are to do in the world, “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” is not meant to be finished. Instead, it is the greatest time thief ever created. Even…
There may be no greater feeling than slaying a dragon. The giant beast flies above and around you while you look for a weak point on its body. As its underside is exposed, you quickly fire arrow after arrow, hoping for any of them to…
Despite its notoriety for being the home of snow storms, small towns and isolation from the rest of the United States, Bradley’s latest play almost made me want to move to Maine. “Almost, Maine” is a romantic comedy centered on a variety of characters, performed…
Let’s make no mistake about it, Brett Ratner earned his membership in the Smiling Douchebag Hall of Fame years ago. His movies are big, loud messes of awkward race jokes and poorly handled action sequences. His “Rush Hour” trilogy is little more than a collection…
No superhero has experienced a greater revitalization over the past decade than Batman. 2008’s “The Dark Knight” grossed $1 billion in worldwide box office revenue and is the highest-rated superhero film of all time on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes. Now he is the main…
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:…
With the recent success of films like “True Grit” and the video game “Red Dead Redemption,” it was only a matter of time before the Western returned to television. Unfortunately, AMC’s new series Hell on Wheels hits too many clichés of the genre to be…
DC Comics’ ambitious relaunch of their 52 titles in a post “Flashpoint” world was a bold move, both financially and creatively. Restarting the timelines of their biggest characters such as Batman and Superman didn’t inspire a lot of confidence in readers, but has had a…
One of music’s biggest acts, Coldplay, returns with their fifth album, “Mylo Xyloto.” Over the span of the British rock group’s career, they have sold 50 million albums worldwide, won seven Grammys and had headlining spots on some of the biggest music festival stages.…