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[MOVIE REVIEW] The Wolfman: This Move Is Fun!

By Miguel Guadalupe • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

The Wolfman (Rating: R) Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving Director: Joe Johnston Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman breaks the remake mold and has brought back the popcorn thriller in an unexpectedly refreshing way. The story is based on the 1941 classic. Del Toro (Che) plays Lawrence Talbolt, who in trying to solve [...]



[MOVIE REVIEW] Couples Retreat: Is It One?

By Miguel Guadalupe • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

One would think that a movie titled after marriage and relationships would be the ultimate chic flick, but having been written by Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, this story is very much from the men’s point of view.

Vaughn (Four Christmases) plays Dave, the anchor of a group of friends at varying stages of married bliss. He has the most stable of the unstable relationships…



[OPINION] Why This Health Care Debate Is So Personal

By Miguel Guadalupe • Aug 15th, 2009 • Category: Opinion & Commentary

I am mentally exhausted. I am horrified by what I see on TV and by what I witnessed at my own town hall meeting – these rabid detractors of health care reform who have been led to believe that covering 47 million people so they can see a doctor is somehow a threat to the [...]



[MOVIE REVIEW] Funny People: Funny Enough?

By Miguel Guadalupe • Jul 29th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Funny People (Rating: R) Cast: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman Written/Produced/Directed by Judd Apatow Funny People does a lot of things. It officially welcomes the new crop of young movie comedians into Hollywood’s funny fraternity, it gives a peek into the supposed everyday life of a special breed [...]



[MOVIE REVIEW] Brüno: Can You Handle It?

By Miguel Guadalupe • Jul 6th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

How can you top a foreign “journalist” who comes to America and brings a bag of his own feces to the dinner table of Southern socialites? How about an Austrian “fashionista” who tries to make a sex tape with former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul?



[REVIEW] Public Enemies

By Miguel Guadalupe • Jun 26th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Features

Public Enemies (Rating: R) Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephan Lang Director: Michael Mann “Tommy-gun” gangster movies seem to be a requisite for every Hollywood movie maker, and Michael Mann gets his street cred with Public Enemies. The movie is a bit misleading, as it says Enemies plural but [...]



[REVIEW] The Hangover

By Miguel Guadalupe • Jun 5th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

OMFG! Can you imagine a scenario where four men go to Las Vegas and commit almost every act of hedonism possible short of those leading to jail and/or death? Apparently, the writers of The Hangover have, and bring it to you in all it’s glory. This eye-popping, gut busting film allows you to



[REVIEW] Terminator Salvation

By Miguel Guadalupe • May 23rd, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

The much-anticipated next chapter of the Terminator series does not disappoint. In this episode we are introduced to Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) a cop killer with a conscious who signs away his soon to be remains while on death row



[REVIEW] Observe & Report

By Miguel Guadalupe • Apr 11th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Entertainment

Seth Rogan’s black comedy does for the mall what Heathers did for High School. The movie takes you to the edge and violently throws you over the precipice. In Observe and Report, Rogen takes on flashers, skateboarders, and kiosk vendors as Ronnie Barnhardt, a disturbed mall security guard who believes he is the one thing standing between order and anarchy



[DVD REVIEW] The Tale of Despereaux

By Miguel Guadalupe • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

I really wanted to like this video. With a voice cast such as Broderick, Hoffman, Weaver, etc., I thought it would light up the screen, and besides, who doesn’t like a small mouse with big ears?