Today is the fourth of July, which means that in the United States, we’re celebrating Independence Day. In honor of this most American of holidays, I’m highlighting some of my favorite scenes from movies and TV that are designed to inspire, uplift, and generally make the viewer explode in a red, white, and blue confetti […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Today’s 5xF is a topic near and dear to our hearts: film scores. When done well, a movie’s music can end up being just as important as the characters or script. It sets the mood, tugs the heartstrings, and the best scores can instantly transport us into their world in just a few […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Today marks a day that’s twenty years in the making! All three of us are enormous fans of Independence Day and alien films in general, and today Independence Day: Resurgence is finally hitting theaters in the US. The original is in common rotation in all three of our households (we tip […]
Today marks the first official day of summer, (though if you live anywhere like us you’ve already been experiencing summer levels of heat for a few weeks now) and thoughts start to turn to vacations and relaxing instead of work or school. And while I’m not in school anymore and summer vacations seem like nothing […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! Sunday is Father’s Day here in the states and in honor of that, today’s Five By Friday is all about our favorite fictional Fathers! There’s a lot of them, but often, they’re not actually all that great of dads. Fiction is filled with parents who leave their children to their own devices, […]
We’ve tried to keep our discussion broad, but it goes without saying that there may be spoilers in this post for all shows listed. Tread carefully, ye who enter here. Before the 2015 TV Season began, we posted about our hopes for the season’s new and returning shows. Now that the season has come to […]
We’ve tried to keep our discussion broad, but it goes without saying that there may be spoilers in this post for all shows listed. Tread carefully, ye who enter here. Before the 2015 TV Season began, we spent some time outlining our hopes and excitement for new and returning shows. Now that the season has […]
Welcome to Five by Friday! In honor of X-Men: Age of Apocalypse hitting theaters this weekend, today’s Five By Friday is all about our favorite X-Men! And while we absolutely enjoy all the X-Men movies (with the obvious exception of X-Men: The Last Stand, because really, who liked that one?) we’re including any characters who have ever been a member […]
WARNING: Spoilers for Captain America: Civil War, Agent Carter, Ant-Man, and Avengers: Age of Ultron ahead. Proceed at your own risk. Like many of you, we saw Captain America: Civil War on opening weekend, and haven’t stopped discussing it since. While the internet is abuzz with speculation about the big questions raised by Civil War’s somewhat open ending […]
If you’re anything like me, you can’t get anything done in a soundless vacuum. The opportunity for distraction is far too great. Someone walking by, the sound of construction nearby, a conversation at the next table… no matter where you are, the possibility of your focus being anywhere but on what you’re working on is […]