Penny Dreadful Recap: Episode 1.03 “Resurrection”

Sorry everyone that this recap is late, but last weekend I was away and was super busy this week with work and other stuff. So today you will get two recaps for last week’s episode and later on tonight for the new episode. We start the episode with a young Victor walking around he stops

Review: The Normal Heart

About 3 years ago I found myself in the DC area to see the sights and watch The Dark Knight Rises with a good friend. As I found myself searching for things to do while on this trip I stumbled upon the Arena Stage website and saw that they would be performing The Normal Heart,

Cast This Bitch: Oklahoma!

Normally I do these types of posts on Fridays but since I was having wordpress issues as well as traveling all day to spend the Memorial Day weekend at home, I figured I’d just make this a fun little side post for the weekend. My good friend and fellow Awards Circuit writer Kristen wrote about the film the other day and it inspired this post. There are few musicals that I feel warrant a remake, but one of them is definitely Oklahoma. Not because its bad mind you, in fact the film is quite good, but that the movie with its “shot on a movie set” feel makes the material seem so dated when the music is so timeless. So I’ve decided to put my casting cap on and try and figure out what a modern day Oklahoma might look like.

Film Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Is it possible to create an engaging film, set up new mythologies, retcon and reboot an entire franchise in one film? The answer, if X-Men: Days of Future Past is any indication, is a resounding yes. Much was expected of this film. This movie had to balance a ton of X-Men actors (all but two

Penny Dreadful Recap: Episode 1.02 “Seance”

The episode begins with a lady of the night sitting alone on a bench, she unwraps an apple and she sees that the newspaper she had the apple wrapped up with reads with a headline of Jack is Back and about the carnage. She starts hearing noises and she gets frightened, we see it’s a

Game of Thrones Recap 4.07 “Mockingbird”

Last week’s Game of Thrones episode set up some nice game pieces and gave me an excuse to deliver a rant I’m sure Tyrion would be proud of. Tonight’s episode was a good one to leave off of before the Memorial Day break and gave us all some catharsis and emotional content. -Jaime and Tyrion

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