TV Review: Skins 7×01 “Fire” Pt 1

by Jachelle Overstreet, Reporter For the past six years, the UK drama Skins has followed the lives of a group of teenagers as they navigate their way through Roundview College. For its seventh and final season, the series deviated from…

Blu-ray Review: Mad Men Season Five

 by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief When we last saw the staff of Sterling Draper Cooper Price, Don (Jon Hamm – Sucker Punch, Robot Chicken) and Betty (January Jones – X-Men: First Class, Love Actually) had split and moved on to separate…

Blu-ray/DVD Review: War Horse

by Karissa Barrows, Editor

Albert Narracott (Irvine) and Joey

When you think “horse movie”, what do you think of?  Black Beauty?  Seabiscuit?  Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron?  Typically, I usually think some movie that’s going to make me cry because of shameless horse-killing, the overplayed horse-separated-from-loved-owner-and-later-reunited storyline proven to elicit tears, or some cowboy movie.  War Horse, Steven Spielberg’s newest film, uses those first two, mixed with a little Seabiscuit-style “miracle horse” aspect, and a little bit of storytelling I thought slightly reminiscent of Tarantino – and makes for a huge success.