This week, we take a look at life post-rapture, the struggle to find purpose in the day to day, and the battle between good and evil. Depending upon how you look at it, that description could have described any of these… The Leftovers: The Complete First Season – When You Get Left Behind Three years…
You might be convinced that evil is winning when you look around the world today. You might find yourself thinking that there’s nothing good or redeemable to be found on the news or the internet. You might have finally given up hope that there is anything people can do to stem the tide of depression,…
Is peace even possible? The Umpqua Community College has my Facebook feed in its grip, not because of its desire to “be the center for quality teaching and learning, and a key partner in the wellbeing and enrichment of our communities,” but because of the violence which encroached on the campus’ safety and wellbeing?last…
“Are you not sacrificing the greater good for the sake of your dignity and self-esteem?”– Bruce Wayne If you’re looking for a light-hearted (mostly) take on DC superheroes, go check out?The Flash. If you’re looking for a creative reimagining of Batman’s origins with humor, panache, and deep meanings that just might critique our society today,…
Watching?the second episode of FOX’s?Minority Report,?you quickly discover that the creators have a desire to feed us piecemeal sections of the backstory and overall mythos. Unfortunately, it remains to be seen if the banter between detectives Vega and Blake (Meagan Good and Wilmer Valderrama) and the cases solved thanks to precog Dash (Stark Sands) are…
Adam Sandler’s schtick is well-practiced. Whether it’s?Grown Ups, 42?or whatever other Happy Madison Productions flick he is pumping out, we haven’t seen much new material over the last decade. Still,?periodically, Sandler chooses to show us his depth, whether it’s in a live action film or something like?Hotel Transylvania 2. Yeah, I said it. Count Dracula’s…
Blindspot?attempted to tackle an issue facing us today politically and socially: the use of drones on American soil. Tackling this issue is the major ‘plot’ of the second episode in NBC’s new series, but I was drawn in more by the concepts playing out in the interaction of Sullivan Stapleton’s FBI Special Agent Kurt Weller…
Vincent Cassel made a splash with English-language movie fans in?Ocean’s Twelve?in 2005, while his Australian?Partisan?director broke through with an absurdist love story at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Now, the two of them have teamed up to deliver a haunting tale of obsession and love in their film about a young boy growing up under…
Manafest AKA Chris Greenwood has been rocking and rapping since 2000 after an accident robbed him of his one true love, skateboarding. Now, he’s set to release his eighth album, Reborn, the first one he owns independently. Working with producers?Seth Mosley (Newsboys, Audio Adrenaline, Sanctus Real) and Joel Bruyere (Thousand Foot Krutch), Manafest’s latest also…
In the latest mysterious television show from ABC–which is shockingly?not?produced, directed, or written by Shonda Rhimes–a new class of recruits arrives at the famed FBI training ground, Quantico. Several months later, New York City’s Grand Central Station lies in ruins and recruit Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra) wakes up amidst them, completely unaware of how she…
