Articles by Scenome Staff

"I supposed if there’s a lesson to glean from experiencing The Nut Job, it would be: never see a movie on a Saturday, with Brendan Fraser, and animals, unless you’re fixing to step in skittle-peppered, slushy-vomit. And perhaps one more: in Capitalism, everyone wins, except art, which finds itself more and more pitifully prefixed with an F." [...]

"Ultimately, RoboCop’s flimsy attempt to balance artistic/intellectual integrity and lucrativeness plunges it into a half-hearted no man’s land, where it, attempting to embody the jack of both trades, becomes a master of neither. But hey, at least it ‘tried’." [...]

"For all its potentially game-breaking deficits, Tank Battle: East Front 1941 is a clever step in subtle, hand-held and fun education so imperative to a rising politically-apathetic youth who—while launching birds into pigs with the flick of a finger—should be now, more than ever, privy to the fact that history can and does repeat itself." [...]

"Have you ever witnessed a television show that was so good it frightened you, regardless of genre? I’m talking about that sort of five-minute, post-credit paralysis where your mind is storming, anxious, almost invaded, molested—where you find yourself plagued by the relentless quandary, bubbling up from somewhere deep-seated, 'How does this show know so much about my life'?" [...]

"Remember that adrenaline rush you used to get while playing hide-n-seek at your cousin’s place, where you’d find a nice elusive spot to hole-up and you kind of whizzed your pants a little? Thief is like that, but it won’t let you change your underwear." [...]

"If you’ve never watched the television series, the film Veronica Mars will let you down. If you have, the filmVeronica Mars should let you down, because it exists to pander to your most basic of human desires in the same league and with the same depth as your average porno." [...]

"The Grand Budapest Hotel may not be the perfect film, but it may well be the perfect motion picture. An hour-n-a-half anthology of meticulously composed portraits, each one more than a thousand words affluent, can probably take this cake." [...]

"At its core, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey’s mission is simple—one of which the pilot episode absolutely accomplishes: to make The Cosmos cool again, to emphasize the value of education, and to see the world, once more, through Sagan’s eyes." [...]

"Bad Words is all right, but for all the wrong reasons. It’s very good at being very bad where it shouldn’t and pretty good at being decent elsewhere—it’s kind of difficult to put into words." [...]

"There is something eerily Shakespearean about Dom Hemingway. Its protagonist is a profanely poetic, soliloquy-spitting incarnation of hubris, the supporting cast are no more than archetypal accompaniments — harlots, harlequins and muses — and even thunder ‘n lightning portents forthcoming doom." [...]