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I am a 32 year-old artist living in the thick of madness in Los Angeles. I have worked so many jobs, it's not worth going over here, but suffice it to say I've been a writer since around age 4, an actor since 14, an artist since 10 or so, a fire eater since

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Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: There Will Be Blood: 3 of 24

This week marks the arrival of yet another of last year's Oscar contenders for Best Picture to the DVD shelves, There Will Be Blood (Paramount, 2-Disc set MSRP: $34.99 / single disc: $29.99). Paul Thomas Anderson's turn of the century American epic is a curious beast, a story of greed, religion, and obsession, which shines a...
Entertainment > TV Genres & Trends What makes a great reality TV show?: 3 of 20

Listen, I'll be honest here, I don't like reality TV. It's lazy, cheap, puts writers and actors out of actual work, and worst of all, it highlights the worst aspects of humanity. Seriously, in a time where we are, as a culture, besieged by war, corrupt government, and celebrity scandals, do we really need an art form that pu...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Southland Tales: 1 of 5

It's the near future, 2008. There's been another terrorist attack on American soil prompting the creation of a more powerful, more invasive Patriot Act producing an omniscient government company that controls the internet (finally), and sees and knows every single thing we do: USIDent. Los Angeles is on the brink of social a...
Entertainment > Movie Genres Have Hollywood horror movies gone too far?: 7 of 33

The idea that Hollywood horror movies have gone too far is incredibly misleading as while the current trend of "torture porn" is rankling the hides of our presiding conservative political environment, the majority of horror films today are a far cry from the controversial fables they used to be. Legendary filmmaker George A....
Hobbies & Games > Video Games (Other) Young people and computer games: 4 of 14

There is an inexplicable cloud of criticism that hovers over the head of the video game industry. Whether it be the issue of violence or "sex" or too real or if it's good or bad for kids, for whatever reason, video games have been set aside from all other forms of entertainment and is undergoing increasingly close scrutiny. ...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Charlie Bartlett: 2 of 6

Charlie Bartlett, oh Charlie Bartlett, what do you want to be? Do you want to be just another light teen romp through John Hughes Land, or would you like to grow up and hang out with edgier teenage fare like Pump Up The Volume? You have clever dialogue that is occasionally very funny, there are predictable, tender moments su...
Entertainment > Movie Genres Do movies rated PG-13 have a place in the horror-movie genre?: 3 of 7

A movie rated PG-13 cannot be defined as a horror film, it's that simple. There can be thrillers that are PG-13, there can be teen scare films at PG-13, but a true horror film can never be rated PG-13. A horror film, by definition, is an adult movie that is terrifying or disgusting, and deals with things of an adult nature. ...
Entertainment > Movie Genres The worst movies ever: 16 of 33

I have seen my share of movies, good and bad. Throughout college, I was a movie production major so I watched them in scads, and now I review movies for a local web site, so I see scads more. In between these two major events, I've had a life full of movie watching. Over these years, there have accumulated 5 movies of which ...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Assessing the Manhunt 2 controversy: 3 of 6

Manhunt. Just the name gives you an idea as to what the game could possibly be about, right? Man, a human being, probably of the male variety. Hunt, to find and kill. So it shouldn't come as a shock that the content of the game would not be child friendly. I was late jumping on the Manhunt wagon, only having picked up the ga...
Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry When movie violence becomes a form of pornography: 2 of 4

Pornography - obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit. The above definition is taken from Dictionary.com, perhaps not as definitive as being from Merriam-Webster, but you get the point. Pornography is, in essence, obscenity without merit. Saying that movie violence ...