Get On Up | Rating: 11/11 | “It doesn’t matter how you travel it, it’s the same road. It doesn’t get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.” – James Brown James Brown was way ahead of his time, he invented the terms of his game much like B.B. […]

B.B. King: The Life of Riley | Rating: 9.8 / 11 | This is the story of one man who single-handed shaped the face of many musicians (and as a result, a few music genres) past, present and future. He overcame hardship by not acknowledging its existence, he dealt with segregation by blurring the lines and he never stopped chasing […]

A Million Ways To Die In The West | Rating: 7.9 / 11 | You’re probably thinking, do we really need another western comedy? It’s hard to fill the shoes of a Blazing Saddles or City Slickers (which A Million Ways‘ score may have been slightly ripped off from). But A Million Ways To Die In The West isn’t so […]

Blood. Everywhere. Within the first few moments of Fall Out Boy’s The Young Blood Chronicles, it seemed a minor miracle that the stuff wasn’t dripping from the very walls of the theater. The concept was simple: mini features for every song off the album Save Rock And Roll. Before the lights went down in the theater, Fall Out Boy gathered in […]

Neighbors | Rating: 7.2 / 11 | Comedy is a very subjective thing and while many American comedic films can sometimes lack flavor with their sophomoric humor, Neighbors aims to rise above. It’s a story as old as Dennis The Menace, the bothered neighbor and the nuisance. The introduction to Delta Psi’s heritage (that’s the frat in this story) brings […]

Amos Lee: Live From The Artists Den | Rating: 8.2/11 | The unassuming and gentle ease with which Philadelphia’s Amos Lee wields his talents is something of a gift in this musical climate of technological treatments and penchant for over-emoting. As pairing music and historic architecture is The Artists Den’s MO, this session was recorded in August 2011 at the […]

Just came from an advanced screening of Hyde Park on Hudson. What a fabulous little film. The film most likely won’t do big box office numbers… and it wasn’t as moving as The King’s Speech, but that’s no reason to disregard it. Hyde Park on Hudson is highly amusing! Blindly going into this screening, I really had no idea what […]