It's not that surprising to hear people make jokes about for-profit colleges like Devry, University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, and the like, and the illegitimacy of the type of education they offer.
By: James Daniels With Ron Paul’s second consecutive straw poll victory, are we seeing a beginning of a tide shift in US politics? Recent trends in the US have been toward bigger government with our latest President being a proponent of such. Talk of universal healthcare has been at…
By: EinsteinLite A colleague used to visit my cube and say something like “Hitch-em-up’s at it again” and we’d both chuckle with understated glee. By this he meant that the notorious Christopher Hitchens had penned yet another controversial article and that I must absorb it as quickly as possible.…
By: Thomas Hinderick It's an interesting question. One that perhaps has been widely publicized this past week on the Internet and other media by numerous pundits wanting to get in on the spectacle. What I'm talking about is the set in the Lionel Logue's office scenes in The King's…
By: Ingrid Munsil This will be a two part review. One part that reviews the movie for those of you who are interested, and the second part for those of you who are wondering why a movie review about Gnomeo and Juliet, a children’s movie for the most part,…
Since the inception of the Tea Party movement in late 2007, the protestors and members of the party have continually bastardized and misquoted the thoughts and theories of the Founding Fathers and other less capable thinkers, like Ayn Rand.
She grabs her son who's crying, lifts him forcefully up in this jerking motion, and then screams word for word, "You've ruined my life! You're always crying!" Right into the kid's face. She then promptly disappears back to her car, or wherever, leaving my friend and me to scratch our collective heads and wonder what the hell was that all about. And then we laughed.
...Wikileaks has been silenced. The contents of the leaked packets of information is unsettling enough and just about any media outlet with its finger anywhere near America’s pulse has jumped all over them and produced a cacophony of analyses and moral sentiments ranging from the outraged to the furious.
Like so many other games, Alice: Return to Madness plays with the theme of insanity not for any enlightened purpose—which, granted, neither did the Grand Theft Auto franchise either, and many others. So, how and why does that make it any different?
Taking the viewer from tragedy to comedy and then something in between—something we'll call tragicomedy for short—Exit Through the Gift Shop does so much more than your average documentary.