0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/23/2015
When the U.S. economy began its collapse in the fall of 2008, I remember talking to someone who worked as a financial adviser. “The media’s blowing this whole thing out of proportion,” he said. “It’s not nearly as bad as they’re making it out to be.” I asked him if that’s what he really believed […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Going into Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the trailers, posters, toys and myriad promotional materials presented new characters and questions about them. Who was the Stormtrooper experiencing a moral and identity crisis, compelling him to change sides? Who was the scavenger on a desert planet living off scraps but feeling the pull of a greater […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/22/2015
The made-for-TV movie is a lost art form. (Thankfully so, due to the advent of the golden, #TooMuchTV era of excellent programming on the small screen.) But one of the classics has to be Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, if for no other reason than its title. The movie, which broadcast on NBC in […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
How will director Richard Linklater follow up his critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated 2004 film Boyhood? Depending on how you look at it, he’s either going back to his roots or sort of continuing the story from his last movie. Everybody Wants Some looks like the spiritual sequel to 1983’s Dazed and Confused (which […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Captain America first appeared in comic books back in 1941, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Marvel Comics didn’t even exist back then. The company was known as Timely Comics. That makes 2016 the 75th anniversary for the character and as you can imagine, Marvel has a few things in mind to celebrate the occasion. […]
0 comments by Andrew Bucholtz
Last Friday (Dec. 18) saw the official determination that former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland’s Dec. 3 death at age 48 on his tour bus was from an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and that further spotlights a theme in the remembrances of him. While many praised Weiland’s talent, […]
0 comments by Dan Levy
The greatest thing about making a movie that’s the first installment of a pre-ordained trilogy is that episode one—or in this case, Episode VII—can ask more questions than it answers. One of the biggest questions coming out of Star Wars: The Force Awakens—other than is the Supreme Leader Snoke really 50 feet tall or is […]
0 comments by Joe Webb on 12/21/2015
Kevin Hart has seven shows remaining in North America before going overseas to entertain countries in Europe during his What Now? Tour, which will make comedy fans from each hemisphere laugh equally hard. Of the seven shows remaining in North America, six performances will take place before the calendar year is over. On the secondary […]
0 comments by Dan Levy
If you haven’t seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, stop reading this now, crawl out from under your rock (congrats on getting wifi on the rock, I know that’s hard for them to install) and go see the movie. Then come back and read this, as there are spoilers abound. Star Wars is back, and […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did exactly what everyone expected them to when they hosted the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. They did a Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin sketch, they showed up on Weekend Update, and they were funny. It might not have been the funniest episode of the season so far, but […]
0 comments by Jeremy Klumpp on 12/18/2015
In August 2012, the Savannah stoner rock group Baroness was in the middle of a European tour supporting the album, Yellow & Green, when their bus plummeted 30 feet off a viaduct near Bath, England. In total, nine people were injured (including all four members of the band), but thankfully no one was killed. Lead singer John […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is really good. If that’s the first thing you’re worried about, relax. Even if you searched your feelings and knew that this new movie couldn’t possibly be as bad as the three prequels, let go of that fear. Besides, you remember what fear leads to. If the second thing you’re worried […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 12/17/2015
In the first episode of Serial season two, we learned that Sarah Koenig and her staff would be investigating the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was soon captured by the Taliban, who imprisoned him for five years. The opening episode gave us […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
With 2015 coming to a close, it’s time to reflect on the past year in sports and entertainment. You know what that means: Lists! We’ll be rolling out plenty of year-end lists for you here at The Comeback during the next couple of weeks that sum up the best we’ve seen this year. First up, […]
0 comments by Tyler Lyon
We’re approaching the end of the year and with that comes plenty of awards contenders as well as the decade’s most anticipated movie in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Yet when you’re not off in a “galaxy far, far away” or catching up on the typical awards fare, there are plenty of great films you may have […]
