CHAPPiE

CHAPPiE

By Jarrod Jones. Take a moment and picture this: Cool as Ice, starring Vanilla Ice, as Vanilla Ice. No thinly-veiled artifice here, no “Vanilla Ice stars as Johnny Van Owen.” The actual film Cool as Ice actually starring Vanilla Ice as himself. As...
FOCUS

FOCUS

By Kyle G. King. Well-dressed, attractive people driving expensive cars and exchanging witty dialogue in a battle of smarts: It’s not the most original premise for a film, but in the right hands it can be a damn entertaining one. Those particular hands that craft...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Our Week In Review serves to fill in the gaps our frequently verbose comic book coverage leaves behind. Each week, we take a brief look into the books that demand attention. Lady Killer #3 Dark Horse/$3.50 Story by Joëlle...
DONNA WATCHES BUNCHES OF MOVIES (PART 2)

DONNA WATCHES BUNCHES OF MOVIES (PART 2)

By Donna Bourgois. Good thing I was so ahead of schedule last month, because wow, I needed that buffer. I lost a week due to travel, I flew up to Michigan to surprise a friend at his send-off party to Japan. Of course flying up to Michigan also means visiting the...

TUBE ROCKET: GOTHAM

Season One, Episode Eighteen – “Everyone Has a Cobblepot” By Jarrod Jones. Not to be outdone by the seventeen episodes that preceded it, the latest episode of Gotham is a reliably mixed bag of an undercooked procedural and a downright surreal gore...
UNCULTURED: JUST, MELVIN: JUST EVIL

UNCULTURED: JUST, MELVIN: JUST EVIL

By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we shamelessly promote and defend some of the “worst” films ever made. This week, we attempt to dissect, and maybe even start to understand, one of the most disturbing documentaries we could find,...