The Backstreet Boys loom large in America’s pop culture pantheon, but what most people don’t remember is that the band truly got their start in Europe. Formed by Trans Continental Records founder (and Ponzi schemer) Lou Pearlman in 1993, the…
Movie Review: Armed Response
On the day that I watched an excellent Polish documentary feature film from director Maciej Adamek titled Dwa Swiata (Two Worlds), I also had to endure a vastly lesser movie called Armed Response. The first movie I highly recommend you…
Movie Review: The Only Living Boy in New York
While he displayed flashes of inspired creativity with a slew of music videos and the clever, genre-bending (500) Days of Summer, it seems as though director Marc Webb’s inventive spark was only a fluke. After two less than spectacular Spider-Man…
Annabelle: Creation Movie Review
The upsurge of horror in recent years (both in independent and major studios) has been crucial to the development of the genre, not just as an exercise in pure terror, but in the conversion of big studio projects into individual visions.…
Orphan Black 5×09 Review: “One Fettered Slave”
Origin stories: it’s the gift that keeps on giving for character development. Orphan Black finally treated us to the long overdue backstory of Helena. In fact, it took us all the way back before she had ever met Sarah and…
Big Brother 19 Review: “Week #5”
How low can these houseguests go? Apparently, it’s even lower. The fifth week of Big Brother 19 was mob mentality at its finest. There was fighting, there was yelling, and there was some outright bullying. Whether you were watching the…
The National release new single: ‘Carin at the Liquor Store’
It’s been a while since we talk about The National. Their last album, Trouble Will Find Me, was released way back in 2013, receiving highly positive reviews from music critics around the world. Four years have passed and the band is…