Author Archive
While many people are at home enjoying new episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy,” “CSI” and “The Office” every Thursday night, others flock to Third Street Bar in downtown Reno. The bar is drawing a unique crowd with its own toe-tapping form of entertainment. Featuring local residents of all ages, social classes and musical prowess, Thursday Night Blues Jam is one of Reno’s most welcoming musical events.
Tags: bands, blues, clubs, dancing
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Breaking News, Music, The Scene
Oh, the B-grade horror movie genre … It is the only genre in which films are not made with the intent to acquire profits, but merely for the craft of showing clever and often gruesome human mutilation. Produced on pathetic budgets and rarely starring any recognizable cast members, these movies are made for two reasons: 1. Someone has an interest in filmmaking and some extra money to waste, so why the hell not? And 2. There is a dark urge to see those willing to act in the movie violated in ways only seen in Rob Zombie’s nightmares.
Tags: B-horror, horror films, John Smihula, The Long Island Cannibal Massacre, They Don't Cut The Grass Anymore, Weasels Rip My Flesh
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Attention all horror junkies — a new drug, “Paranormal Activity,” has just been released and is guaranteed to sustain your unruly urges. Recommended by industry professionals and users alike, this drug is the best available on the market today. Warning — side effects may include: spontaneous loud screaming, high blood pressure, the urge to leave bright lights on and, in extreme cases, the uncontrollable release of bodily fluids.
Tags: horror, Paranormal Activity, scary movies
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Pain is a feeling rarely experienced in theaters today. It takes a certain special kind of movie to invoke such an intense sensation. In this case, it is “Couples Retreat,” a film about paradise that has never felt so hellish, that manages to make it happen.
Directed by Peter Billingsley (“Four Christmases”), “Couples Retreat” tells the [...]
Tags: Couples Retreat, Inside Look, movie review, movies
Posted in Inside Look
According to zombie survival rule #32 in “Zombieland,” one should enjoy the little things in life. With relentless waves of laughs, zombie obliteration and outrageous action sequences, “Zombieland” is one not-so-little film that is impossible not to enjoy.
Tags: horror, Zombieland, zombies
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Playing to a specific audience, “The Informant!” is a unique comedy that will have many cheering its departure from mainstream cinema. For those not familiar with director Steven Soderbergh’s (“The Girlfriend Experience”) style though, the uniqueness may appear nonsensical.
Tags: Matt Damon, The Informant!
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Directing a multi-million dollar Hollywood film about the end of the world and living potato sacks trying to save humanity is a big task. For special effects creator, recently turned director Shane Acker, it appears the task was too big.
Tags: 9, apocalypse, movies, Shane Acker
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
By:
Jay Brissenden -
Comments Off -
Monday, September 7, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Filled with the same dry and subtle humor you’ve come to expect from Mike Judge (“Idiocracy”), “Extract” is a solid, if unmemorable, comedy that tries too hard to copy the bitterly sarcastic tone that made Judge’s “Office Space” a cult classic.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Extract, Jason Bateman
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Relying purely on the success of the first three in its series, "The Final Destination" takes the low road by sacrificing the creepy feeling created by the first three films and filling the screen with cheesy 3-D thrills and effects. Does any of this come as a surprise, though? Yeah, no.
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
Clergy-killing psychopaths, possessed, talking goats, annoying, racist robots, retarded lizard people and a dildo-flailing Austrian. These are a few of my favorite things. Without the help of Hollywood this past summer, I would have never known I enjoyed the above so much.
Tags: StarTrek, summer movies, The Proposal, UP
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Look, Movies
