From the elementary school kids bum-rushing the dodgeball courts to see a lunchtime throwdown to the most affluent Vegas high rollers sitting ringside at the MGM grand, Americans love watching a good fight. Myself included, as I found out while getting hooked on Discovery channel’s ineffable “Fight Quest.”
Author Archives: Jake Ayres
Screen Scene: “Charlie Bartlett”
If there’s one thing that Hollywood thinks Generation Y teenagers are, besides utterly debauched, it’s medicated. Regardless of the truth or falsehood of that assertion, several movies have been produced echoing this belief, such as 2005’s similarly-named “Thumbsucker” and “The Chumscrubber.”
Top 5 things I’ll miss about the writers’ strike
Breathe easy.
Aggregators make sense of wild Web
Nearly everyone, especially students, has had the frustrating experience of sorting through page after page of Google results to no avail.
“˜Truth’ of TV hard to swallow
Way back in the good old days of 2007, folks used to talk about what a godforsaken wasteland TV would become, if the then-only-rumored writers’ strike were to come to fruition.
Sound design student’s electronic band sails to success
Jonathan Snipes had a song featured in “Snakes on a Plane,” another song featured on “The Office,” and is poised to tour Europe with his band.
He also might be your TA.
It’s raining Internet celebrities
A deep voice cuts through the silence.