Summer Movie Grades

As the summer movie season winds down and we get ready for fall, here are the grades for the summer’s films.Harry PotterGrade: B+Reason: Fitting end to the franchise, some awesome momentsGreen Lantern Grade: C-Reason: Tries to do too much with an already cosmic scopeCaptain AmericaGrade: BReason: Solid entry to the Marvel franchise and great period fluff,

Top 15 Best Actress Winners

In honor of all the great actressing in The Help, I decided to create a list of the Top 15 Best Actress Winners of All Time. This proved to be very difficult for a few reasons, chief of them being I’ve seen so few of the winning performances. I’ve actually seen more of the losing

Album Review: Watch The Throne

After months and months of anticipation, Kanye West and Jay-Z unleashed Watch the Throne on the masses on August 8th. I was traveling during this time so I waited to download the album for a few days, but I checked out the reaction from my Twitter timeline. Judging from their enthusiastic proclamations (someone said it

What makes a Best College?

Earlier this morning, I ran across an article that has inspired me so much, I’ve decided to write about something that isn’t movie flavored. Forbes.com came out with the list of 650 Best Colleges (which you an view here). While best lists are very commonplace, the creators of these rankings used a very interesting scale.