Column

I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Shakespeare. He was full of interesting ideas and his plays contain “timeless” themes that show up in film even today, but he always comes across as so … uhh … stuffy. Even Robert De Niro’s friends refer to him as Bob or Bobby (the better to prove to […]

When I was growing up in Wisconsin I would often times kill time at my local video store. I would roam through the aisles, looking at the VHS boxes, searching for something interesting to watch. I was fascinated with genre mash-ups and Ralph Bakshi’s films and quickly immersed myself in them. But Waukesha wasn’t exactly stationed along the cutting

Warning – Due to the graphic content contained within the title of the film I will be reviewing this week I have decided that for one week, and one week only, I will remove my self-imposed language restrictions and allow myself to curse like a sailor if the mood strikes. Trust me, it will. This

The girlfriend and I had brunch at Gigi’s Cafe the other day and I had what one might describe as an epiphany. Gigi’s is a quaint little establishment that caters predominantly to those who are on the wrong side of thirty plus the occasional migrant hipster. Not exactly an eclectic clientèle but one that nonetheless

You know what sucks? Moving. You know what sucks more then moving? Unpacking. Sure moving during a snowstorm was annoying and unpleasant. But this eternal shuffling of boxes and furniture from room to room is unbearable. It starts out innocuous enough, boxes go in the rooms in which they designated until everything is unloaded and

Not wanting to run into the same issues as last week (delay in watching the movie/head cold from Hell), in which I watched Razorback and wrote the column in a span of roughly 24 hours I made plans this week to attend a midnight screening of A Boy and His Dog, and of course, those plans inevitably fell