A feeling of paranoid nostalgia swept across me during a screening of World War Z. An hour into the movie, which I caught with my family at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Theater, someone in the audience coughed. This is not what you want to hear when the movie in question is a virus-oriented horror movie. It made me remember seeing Outbreak when I was in high school and, at the same … [Read more...] about WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
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MAN OF STEEL New Movie Review
The most interesting thing about Superman has always been his unacknowledged status as the American Jesus, a figure defined by his genuinely good character and compassionate nature. Most superheroes are far more interesting when out of their spandex disguises and revealed for whom they are. Batman and Iron Man are striking by themselves by Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are … [Read more...] about MAN OF STEEL New Movie Review
Your Horoscope
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Bulls are famously good confidence-keepers, and for being tight-lipped about stuff like your income or emotions. But you’re lousy at tolerating secrets you’re not in on. Still, won’t you consider the possibility that you’re better off not knowing? Mystery is often preferable to certainty; the former can be alluring and glamorous, the latter dreary. … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Michael Bay’s first movie, Bad Boys, opened worldwide in 1995, introducing audiences to his style of flashily frenetic editing and deafening explosions, matched with awesomely moronic storytelling and dialogue. His brand of making louder, thrilling and infinitely stupid action movies was marked from the beginning. Meanwhile, at around the same time, a horrific crime was … [Read more...] about PAIN AND GAIN New Movie Review
Your Horoscope
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Let it get scary. I know, scary doesn’t exactly fit in with your view of a harmonious and sweet life. But it should; because when things start getting really close and really real, they also get at least a little terrifying. Don’t settle for mediocre pleasantry, not when the real deal is so close you can touch it. It may seem like trouble—hell, it may … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope