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By Chris Beauchamp

Bodies piled upon each other are left to rot in the sun like overripe vegetables. Dead women, children and men–most of them dispatched with hacking blows from a machete or a gunshot to the head–litter city streets and the countryside. The dead, too numerous to bury individually, must be burnt or shoveled into mass graves.… Continue reading Movie Review: Return to Rwanda-Rwanda land

By Kenzie Love

Ignore the lame rhyme at the end of Assault on Precinct 13: “Wow, what an ending!” It’s an ill fitting description for Jean-François Richet’s film, only the beginning of which has anything going for it. The camera narrows in on Ethan Hawke delivering a profanity laden rant while conducting a drug deal in a Detroit… Continue reading Movie Review: Assault on precinct cinema

By Kyle Francis

“Shabbat Shalom, motherfuckers,” says the Hebrew Hammer, pulling dual shotguns on a room of Neo-Nazis. It would be hard to call this scene anything but badass. It’s wonderful to see an artist pull off something like this, creating quirky characters despite a low budget. He’s a dual pistol wielding, trash talking, elf busting, Semitic stallion.… Continue reading Movie Review: The Hebrew Hammer ain’t no schmuck

By Jaime Burnet

All your Spongebob paraphernalia is laid out on the bed like it’s a drug bust: the taped episodes, Patrick Star cuddle pillow, Bikini Bottom alarm clock, Spongebob Squarepants pajamas, the rug you spent hours hooking those tiny bits of wool into so that gap toothed grin would welcome you every morning. You are a self-admitted… Continue reading Movie Review: Sponge tasted better on television

By Joy Syratt

Christmas is fantastic for most people, excited by the lights, family, glitzed up tree and crowded malls. Even the more overly commercial aspects can be enough to tip us into a holiday cheer tizzy. Unfortunately, the early holiday movie, Christmas with the Kranks, proves to be not as nearly exciting. Although a heartfelt tale of… Continue reading Movie Review: Christmas with the Kranks mildly not crank inducing

By Jaime Burnet

If we’ve learned anything from cartoon characters, it’s that you can’t be stubborn and you can’t be static if you want to succeed. Countless movies have an immature child take on mature traits to save the day, or a stuffy adult embracing their inner child so he or she understands how things must work out,… Continue reading Movie Interview: The unbearable lightness of Spongebob

By Kyle Francis

Deep within the Himalayas, movies like Catwoman, Spawn, and The Punisher, gather in a cave far from justice to form THE SHITTY SUPERHERO MOVIE LEAGUE… OF EVIL! For years they ravaged the hearts and minds of steadfast comic book nerds with their taint, challenged only by competent film renditions like Spider-Man and X-Men. Until now!… Continue reading Movie Review: The Incredibles truly… uh… incredible

By Ashley Spinella

Resist. Occupy. Produce.Mantra of Argentina’s fabricas occupadas, it’s also the theme for director Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein’s The Take, an ambitious documentary of a movement as it unfolded. Anti-globalization protests have become a universal cry of frustration for the second-class citizens in the global world order. Not just documenting a movement, The Take is… Continue reading Movie Review: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein’s Take it to the people

By Peter Hemminger

On the phone from his Seattle hotel room, director James Wan sounds abnormally chipper. It’s baffling, not only is it 9:30 in the morning where he is, but he’s already done a number of interviews. Even more so, after seeing the gruesome crimes presented in Saw, Wan’s directorial debut, the sunny Australian voice coming through… Continue reading Movie Interview: James Wan shoots Saw on pure guts

By Peter Hemminger

Forget about what could have or should have been, missed opportunities and unfulfilled promise, you’ve got to hand it to director James Wan for having the confidence to make a debut like Saw. It’s a gritty, dark, David Fincher-esque thriller not afraid of the gore or cranking up the tension. But when headstrong confidence meets… Continue reading Movie Review: Saw twists and twists and twists…