After X2, the (at-the-time) amazing second entry in Fox's X-Men movie series, came out in 2003, it raised the bar in such a way from the first film that we could only be tickled with excitement for the third. I dreamed of just how epic and badass it … [Continue reading]
Anyone who has used Netflix knows this inherent dilemma: having so many choices and yet not knowing what to pick. But another side effect of having such a deluge of choices is that your brain never quite buys competely in to your … [Continue reading]
I will always appreciate this book for it's opening chapter. I gave it a shot one night, curious if the large print copy I had found at the local Goodwill would help me read faster. I wanted to start and finish a book at some point, I thought, and … [Continue reading]
When we first meet Sam White (Tessa Thompson), she's speaking on her college radio show, Dear White People. She's got opinions about the racial culture of her Ivy League college, and the serve both as a manifesto for the black students who want to be … [Continue reading]
There's a moment where I thought the film lost me. Driving on a long, empty road, with one-word-mumbling beat poet Johnny Five (Garret Hedlund) steering beside him and jazz musician Roland Turner (John Goodman) in the back seat punctuating … [Continue reading]