I’m going to have to plead ignorance when it comes to William Shakespeare’s tragedy, having sacrificed experiencing it in school so that Hamlet and Macbeth could be dissected one more time. I’m sorry I have, because even going on the fragments that John Logan was able to contract into a pretty tense narrative, Coriolanus is a bruiser (T.S. Eliot once declared Coriolanus superior to such tragedies as Hamlet or Macbeth). There are a few elements of the general plot that…

Whilst my film snob friends were bashing this movie before it hatched, I was tentatively defending the potential of the Tatum/Hill buddy cop television series reboot spinoff comedy. Little brother DC and I caught a show when I went to visit him the other day, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t enjoy the hell out of 21 Jump Street’s silly ass. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum are a stellar duo, rocking genuine friend chemistry and enough comedic timing to…

The story of one of music’s brightest stars, Joy Division, is as blistering in its brevity as it is in its honesty. Sam Riley is amazing as Ian, lead singer of the band who came to be synonymous with all that is amazing in post punk, and in music in general. Riley doesn’t concern himself with strict character impersonations, which makes his performance all the more powerful, but when he is on stage during the concert sequences it’s uncanny. Corbijn…