‘The Kings of Summer’ Live Up To Their Name

In the thick of adolescence, wanting to escape the clutches of parental oppression is about as innately human as that post-puberty awkward phase we all strive to expunge from our memory. It’s a time when many of us...

‘Maniac’s’ Jan Broberg Talks about How She Turns Tragedy into Triumph

‘Breaking Bad’ DVD Provides Fix before Series’ Final Episodes

As any seasoned drug addict knows, sometimes you have to pace yourself to get the most out of each individual high. The DVD release of Breaking Bad: The Fifth Season displays that good things come to junkies who...

‘The Bling Ring’: Lifestyles of the Rich and Those Who Rob Them

Pop open any one of the designer handbags displayed proudly on the hips of The Bling Ring and the only thing that won’t come tumbling out is a functioning moral compass. Their story is a true crime ripped from the...

‘Man of Steel’: Truth, Justice and the Kryptonian Way

For years, continuing on the legacy Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster began in 1938 has been a tricky matter. While the tagline for the first big movie based on their work asserted we would believe a man can fly, another...

‘Monsters University’ Scares Up an Enjoyable but Inferior Prequel

In 2001, Pixar (still in its infancy) released their fright-tastic Monsters, Inc. and introduced us to a world where the screams of little children were harvested as an energy source for the city of Monstropolis,...

Primary Colors: Orly Genger’s ‘Red, Yellow and Blue’

It was a rainy day across New York’s five boroughs — nothing new, considering a steel-studded sky had covered the Northeast for what seemed like a hundred years of glum. But unlike any of the dozen days...

‘Far From Heaven’: The Music of What Happens

To most, the Fabulous Fifties bring to mind images of girls in poodle skirts and pancake makeup, diners and juke boxes, a time when Elvis first gyrated into our living rooms on TV and being named prom queen was the...

‘This Is the End’ Burns Bright at the End of the World

Who knew the end of the world, with all the proverbial fire and brimstone, could be so hysterical. At least that’s how it’s made to seem in This Is the End, a rousing and shamelessly hilarious end-of-days comedy...

‘Maniac:’ A Visceral Trip through the Macabre

They say it’s often times the quiet ones. The ones you would never expect. The ones that seem harmless. Maniac’s Frank Zito (Elijah Wood) is one of “those.” The lone owner of a mannequin restoration shop,...