In 2008, two weeks before Speed Racer’s theatrical release, I was in an airport bookstore with limited selection, inflated prices [...]
Is the extra dimension worth it?
Thirteen years ago, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace came blasting into theaters as one of the most anticipated [...]
buzz’s most anticipated films of 2012
Welcome back! That is, welcome back to 2012, or campus, or reading buzz in general. Whatever the case, we waited [...]
Chocolate vampire explosion
When did Count Chocula stop sucking blood and start selling kid’s cereal? Perhaps he grew bored with the dreariness of [...]
Year of the Gosling
The Man Fun Fact! In 1938, Time Magazine called Adolf Hitler Man of the Year for leading Germany to economic [...]
Bah, humbug!
The Military-Industrial Complex and Practitioners of Conventional Morality (heretofore, The Man) says everybody loves Christmas and all its Yuletide cheer. [...]
Shakespeare live and uncut!
Let’s say you’re writing a final paper on Shakespeare. Are you going to waste two hours reading a complicated play [...]
Five mind-blowing science fiction movies
“The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our [...]
Know your director
Baltimore director John Waters has been shocking moviegoers since 1964 with his offbeat, exploitation-inspired and slightly disturbing films. But don’t [...]
Find the perfect guilty pleasure horror movie this Halloween
buzz just can’t get enough horror movies! This week, we’re taking a look at B-Movies: the genre of high-concept gimmicks, [...]
Menstrual blood splatter!
Feminists love talking about horror movies. Some of the angry ladies condemn horror for violent misogyny and sex-negative rhetoric; others, [...]






