The Star Wars series is a benchmark of modern film, helping to define the meaning of the summer movie. Its special effects, storyline and self-contained world was brand new to audiences and the whole picture fit together so well that it virtually defined cinematic success…
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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:…
When it comes to comedy longevity, few top prop comic Gallagher. Famous for smashing watermelons, candy and all manner of other items with his patented Sledgomatic, Gallagher honed his act in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Gallagher’s manic energy on stage helped him reach…
NBC made its first cut of the season this week, giving The Playboy Club the axe. The show did its own bunny dip in ratings, hitting just 3.4 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the adult demographic in its last episode. The Parents Television…
Two years after their reunion, Blink-182 returns to recording music with the release of their new album “Neighborhoods,” bringing back the music adored by so many. Known for their songs “What’s My Age Again,” “All the Small Things” and “Feeling This,” and the band’s vibrant…
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:…
Despite the fact that many of the biggest shows of the fall season have returned, many fans are still waiting for the dead to shamble back onto the small screen. I am not one of them. AMC’s The Walking Dead was one of the runaway…
The rate our society demands, chews up and spits out culture has accelerated to a point where we don’t even take in what we’re given. One song is as good as the next, a movie as meaningless as the one before, television that’s forgettable as…
The Maine are a pop punk group on the rise with two albums and multiple EPs released over the past four years, They will open for Taking Back Sunday next Saturday at the Renaissance Coliseum for Homecoming, so Voice is taking a look back at…
Nearly 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” showed us what computer-generated images could do on a movie screen. As far as anyone watching the movie could tell, the dinosaurs were real; the level of detail put into an individual creature’s textures was mind-boggling. Now,…