Movie Review: “Soul Surfer” with Carrie Underwood
Soul Surfer is the kind of movie that will be described with words like “touching“, “heartfelt”, “uplifting“, and “inspirational”. It is all those things, but it’s pretty sappy too. Soul Surfer tells the true story of Bethany Hamilton, a young surfer who loses her left arm to a shark attack and finds the courage to […]
Movie Review: “Hop” with Russell Brand and James Marsden
There is no doubt in saying that Hop is the best Easter movie you will see this year and probably the best Easter movie since 1983’s Easter Parade. If you haven’t figured it out by now, it’s also practically the only Easter movie since 1948…barring any of the actual Jesus related films like Passion of […]
Movie Review: “Sucker Punch” by Zack Snyder
Sucker Punch marks the first major release of an original work from writer/director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen). It tells the story of a young girl, who after attacking her cruel step-father finds herself admitted to a mental institution. It is at this mental institution where she uses the imaginative powers of her mind to escape […]
Blu-Ray Review: “Skyline”
Some have said Skyline is possibly the worst movie ever made. It is not. Skyline is not even the worst movie released this week. That honor would go to The Tourist. With that being said, Skyline is poorly acted, directed and written. But it is not without its strengths. Skyline stars Donald Faison (Scrubs) and […]
Videogame Review: Homefront – Multiplatform
With the rise of cinematic video games it isn’t a mystery why Homefront has garnered so much buzz. Advertised as “from the writer of Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now”, St. Louis native and Oscar nominee John Milius takes the helm of this story about a potential future in which Korea becomes the new world power […]
Weekly Gleek Report “Sexy” with Guest Star Gwyneth Paltrow
After a week off, Glee returned tonight to teach us about sex. Substitute teacher Holly Holliday (Paltrow) returns to McKinley High after the sex-ed teacher got a bad case of the “herps”. All in all, I gotta say this episode about sex was actually kind of…boring. Tonight’s episode primarily involved the glee kids’ feelings and […]
Matt’s 76% Accurate Oscar Picks for 2011 – UPDATE
The following is a comparison of my Oscar picks from February 15th and the humble realization of what actually transpired. Winners and new commentary have been added in italics. Oscar picks are to some, what track betting is to others. I have never made formal Oscar picks like this before, so it is very possible I […]
Weekly Gleek Report – “Blame it on the A-A-A-A-A-Alcohol”
Underage drinking is bad. Right? Well, according to this week’s Glee…maybe not so much. Tonight Glee’s “very special” episode took its turn at the time honored tradition of dedicating itself to the epidemic of teen drinking. Roseanne did it, The Cosby Show did it and Growing Pains did it. Glee kind of side stepped the […]
Weekly Gleek Report – “Comebacks”
Tonight’s Bieber-licious episode of Glee was sadly lacking in several areas. The fact that they included two Justin Bieber songs didn’t help. The title of tonight’s episode, “Comeback” seemed fitting as Glee came back to the poor plot devices and fragmented story lines that nearly defined the first half of this season. Somewhere in the […]
