THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

By Jarrod Jones. It requires very little patience to wait for the carnage to ensue in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Picking up just seconds after last year’s Desolation of Smaug, Jackson’s third – and final –...
FOXCATCHER

FOXCATCHER

By Kyle G. King. The director’s responsibility to a film, among others, is to blend a world of fiction within a semi-logical world of reality. Bennett Miller is a director who is unwilling to commit completely to one style of filmmaking, but rather finds his comfort...
ROSEWATER

ROSEWATER

By Kyle G. King. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart blatantly brands itself as “a fake news program” (running recurring segments with nonsensical headlines like “Clusterfuck to the White House”, “Gaywatch / We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Newsed to It”, and...
RETROGRADING: LICENSE TO DRIVE

RETROGRADING: LICENSE TO DRIVE

By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “A Tale Of Two Coreys.” Growing up in the 1980s meant witnessing a unique era in Hollywood, following the end of ‘70s realism and grit and...
UNCULTURED: THE CROW

UNCULTURED: THE CROW

By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we attempt to shed a new light on some of our favorite misunderstood and often overlooked films. In this week’s installment, we discuss the 1994 film adaptation of James O’Barr’s The Crow. In the late...