By now, we’ve all barely started feeling like humans again after recovering from the four-five days’ worth of Wizard World Chicago activities we took part in. Now let’s recap what we learned, and who better to start off with than the…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Digging for Fire’
In Joe Swanberg’s latest mumblecore production, Digging for Fire, he continues to focus on the complexity of human and intimate relationships. If you’re familiar with Swanberg’s work, you probably have realized that this a major recurring theme in most his…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘American Ultra’
There are films made to enlighten and leave you with a heightened state of mind. Then there are films meant to be watched with an already “heightened” state of mind. American Ultra caters much more to one than the other.…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’
From the time we are children, our books contain some kind of moralistic lesson or cautionary tale that we may not fully understand. Whether it is Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go or Homer’s The Odyssey, or even the Christian bible,…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Straight Outta Compton’
Reaching legendary status in music is predictably difficult because of its unpredictable nature. NWA may not have been the first group of its kind, but it certainly was the group that did it best. Their anger and outrage reverberate from the…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘I Am Chris Farley’
Imagine a group of old friends reuniting after fifteen years to reminisce about the old times, in particular a shared friend they lost long ago. This is what I Am Chris Farley ultimately comes off as. It is understandably hard to…
