Moneyball (2011): “What are you really worth?”

Ed. Note: Hey, all. James here. This is the debut of our new writer, Bryan Sibbitts. Where did he come from? What does he want from us? Only time will tell. For now, maybe just search for clues hidden in his review of Moneyball. Perhaps every capitalized letter spells out a message or something. Who knows? What…

Netflix Review: ‘The Warriors’

The Warriors (1979): The Plot: In a vaguely “futuristic” New York, bathrobe-clad super-gangster Cyrus (Roger Hill) calls a summit to unite all of the city’s gangs in a war against the NYPD. He gets assassinated, probably because his vision was too beautiful for this world. The Warriors, a gang from Coney Island, get blamed for…

SciFridays: “The Raven” (2012)

Baddie – Johnny Depp/Robert Downey Jr. Lesson – If necessity is the mother of invention, reinventions are the weird offspring. I think it’s safe to say that there is a trend in Hollywood to create zany reiterations of things in the past. Sherlock Holmes (RDJ) and the BBC Sherlock, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, for example. I…

Second Breakfast Tries to Make Sense of Oldboy

Some of you may have heard of the upcoming film Stoker. Those of you who actually write for this blog may not have heard that I called dibs on reviewing it. I did. I did call dibs. Well, watching the trailers and looking at ads for Stoker, I’ve been intrigued, but I haven’t really known…