“What Do We Call It?” “I Don’t Know, Just Add a T to Las and Let’s Go to Lunch”
It doesn’t fare well for a film when the two-minute pre-credits sequence clues you in to every single thing that’s going to happen in the next hour and thirty-eight minutes. Last Vegas opens with four friends at age ten, living in Flatbush, NY, hanging out at a soda shop with a girl their age. There’s the token black friend and the stock Jewish friend, who in this kind of film are obviously not going to be contenders for the girl’s...
The Walking Dead (Half Season Finale)
This episode was good. But it wasn’t perfect. In fact it was far from perfect. It’s good for a few reasons that make me hopeful for the return in February. It’s flaws however might just be some things that we’ll just have to get used to. Either way there’s some interesting events that need to be digested and a few lives left hanging in the balance. Good Day Governor This was a bitter sweet end...
Kill the Messenger
Last year’s Hollywood Oscar contenders were marred by a spate of controversy. It seemed like every single high-profile film was taken to task for some politically incorrect issue or another. Lincoln got heat for its historical inaccuracies; Zero Dark Thirty allegedly condoned the use of torture; Argo jingoistically re-wrote the Iranian revolution; Silver Linings Playbook soft-pedaled the issue of mental illness; Django Unchained and...
Survivor: Blood vs Water Episode 11 Notes
Redemption Island: Mothers United The duel is between Vytas, Tina, and Laura. It involves knocking blocks out of a long, tubular net. There are different color faces on each side of the blocks. As such, each contestant needs to solve the puzzle and insert the blocks so that only one color appears in each column. Laura is great at challenges and easily finishes first again. While Vytas tries to glance over at Laura’s completed pieces...
Breaking Breakdown: Turkey, Football, and Walmart Fights
Here at Rookerville, we are astute observers of the news. But while most periodicals, radio shows, and TV programs focus on the gloom and doom of the national and local headlines, we get more of a kick out of the overlooked oddities found buried several pages deep. Enter our series, “Breaking Breakdown”, a closer look at the everyday silliness of the not-so-breaking news stories that make us shake our heads. Today’s article comes to...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Score: 10/10 Simply put: amazing. It is the best movie I have seen in 2013. I had low expectations going into the first movie. I came away blown away and in love with the story. I had high expectations for the sequel after reading the books and my expectations were significantly exceeded by the movie. Do not get me wrong. The book is much more thorough and detailed. However, it would have taken a much longer movie to cover everything...