Posts by James Roberts

[rating=7.00] I’ve got a friend who argues that superheroes are one of the few common bounds that connects the young and the old. I can’t really disagree with that. The eight-year-old little girl and the 80-year-old man can find a lot of common ground, as far as interests go, with the increasingly growing world of […]

[rating=10.00] As moviegoers, we’ve been burned so many times by buzz that many of us are left jaded and wary of the pre-release hype machine. It’s hard, really, to take these things seriously anymore. Personally, I add to this mix my natural inclination towards cynical skepticism about anything that anyone tells me is a definite […]

As the music world mourns the loss of rock and roll pioneer Jack Bruce, we decided to take a look back through the master’s long and storied history to examine the legacy he left behind. To call him monumental would be only to scratch the surface of his influence and impact on the state of […]

[rating=7.00] The revenge thriller is, by nature, a limited genre. Sure, you can play with tropes and flip the script as much as you like; in the end, though, your basic structure is still going to come down to “You wronged me; I make it right.” After seeing it a thousand times, the story itself […]

[rating=7.00] Primus has always been one of the weirdest bands out there. In a post-Frank Zappa world, they’re the closest thing we’re ever going to get to the granddaddy of musical freaks. This is a mantel they’ve always worn well, even if it’s never talked about or spoken aloud. Anytime Primus releases a new record, […]

[rating=9.00] Written and Directed by: David Ayer Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman It’s easy for us, as civilians, to regard a returning solider as a hero. From the comfort of our couch, it seems like such a simple equation. “That guy,” we tell ourselves “is a hero.” We aren’t wrong, of course, in our […]

[rating=3.00] Earlier this month, a bemused Roger Waters reminded fans via Facebook that he hasn’t been a part of Pink Floyd for nearly three decades. This was in response to a barrage of questions he’d received regarding the upcoming Pink Floyd record, The Endless River, the band’s first new material in 20 years — and, reportedly, their […]

[rating=2.00] At some point in the future, some bright eyed and rosy-cheeked young film scholar will sit at his computer and write a paper on the current period of cinematic history. By that time, I’m sure, the era we’re living through will have become known as “the shared universe period” and much ink (digital or […]

Despite the film’s simplistic plot and overall predictability, Fuqua and Washington have once again struck cinema gold.

With ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Marvel and Disney have shown the world that the appetite for grand space epics still exists — and it’s voracious.