Epic

Seeing the forest for the trees full of tiny soldiers.

Movie Reviews & Stories The words “from the makers of Ice Age and Robots” and “starring the voices of Beyoncé, Pitbull and Steven Tyler” don’t exactly inspire confidence in a summer animated release. In fact,    More

 

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 AP KRYZA

Warp Speed: Star Trek Into Darkness Reviewed

Movies & Television Despite having been released in countries across the universe (well, world) to enthusiastic response, Paramount refused to screen Star Trek Into Darkness before WW press deadlines. (We revisited some Star Trek flops.) Critic AP Kryza deems it worth the wait.   More

 

Thursday, May 16, 2013 by AP KRYZA

The Iceman

A true-crime nightmare that’s completely cold.

Movie Reviews & Stories Michael Shannon—whose hot streak of late includes 2011’s best (and most overlooked) performance in Take Shelter—has steadily built a catalog that dips into a huge swath of roles, from heroes   More

 

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 AP KRYZA

Man in the Can

Marvel kills it with the terrifically entertaining Iron Man 3.

Movie Reviews & Stories The modern superhero trilogy has a very specific arc. There’s the origin story, in which an everyman stumbles into great power. In round two, the world turns on said hero as he faces greater t   More

 

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 AP KRYZA

Mud

Growing up in a swift current.

Movie Reviews & Stories As with many stories about coming of age under harsh circumstances, a mighty river runs through the center of Jeff Nichols’ Mud, a Southern-fried fable about two adolescent Arkansas boys whose c   More

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 AP KRYZA

Room 237

All theory and no play makes Jack an obsessive.

Movie Reviews & Stories We tend to project ourselves onto art. We take a story as a reflection of our own experiences, or we interject our own theories about what an artist really means. Every English teacher does it,    More

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 AP KRYZA

Album Review: Old Light

Time (Self-Released)

Album Reviews [CABBIE TUNES] Portland’s Old Light has been on one hell of a weird trajectory. The project started as a series of autoharp-intensive recordings frontman Garth Klippert played for passengers i   More

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 AP KRYZA

42

Swing, and a miss.

Movie Reviews & Stories Jackie Robinson is an American legend: The first black player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier, he shouldered the hopes of a generation, weathering a flurry of abuse to open the ga   More

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 AP KRYZA

A Tapestry of Mediocrity

The Place Beyond the Pines bites off too much and accomplishes too little.

Movie Reviews & Stories Among the things that made director Derek Cianfrance’s breakout feature, Blue Valentine, so powerful, touching and ultimately devastating was its extremely limited scope. This was an autopsy of    More

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 AP KRYZA

Brew Views: Beer and Movie Fest

Beer me.

Brew Views Some things are just better with a beer or six. Take, for example, the sight of a shirtless Patrick Swayze ripping out a dude’s throat. Or a gigantic bug sucking out a man’s brain with what ap   More

 

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 AP KRYZA