I’m always wary when watching the third installment (the three-quil, if you will) of a movie series. Think Godfather 3, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Spiderman 3, or the Matrix Revolutions. Then again, there has been a reverse in the trend recently with The Dark Knight Rises, and now, with Ironman 3.
Author: Wes
Review: The Dark Knight Rises
Has there ever been three movies so complementary of each other and so well executed that it has become the new standard bearer by leaps and bounds?
Random musings on Jeremy Lin leaving Knicks
Relative to his talent, Lin doesn’t deserve that contract. But Lin is not every other player in the NBA. The contract Houston offered didn’t operate in a vacuum.
Review: The Newsroom
The Newsroom is a perfect response to our present day struggles, which is why Sorkin has (finally) found the right premise.
Review: Magic/Bird on Broadway
Magic/Bird is a play that comes about 15 years too late, telling a story that has a definite beginning with a compelling middle, but struggles to find where to conclude.
Building the Syracuse lacrosse dynasty — Brad Kotz
Led by Brad Kotz, the Orangemen went 13-1, and was No. 1 for a stretch of the season before earning the No. 2 seed for the tournament.
Syracuse hurdler Jarret Eaton knows he can go faster
Eaton won the event with a 7.54 seconds, edging his nearest opponent by a scant .01 seconds, at the Indoor National Championships in Nampa, Idaho.
Can Jeremy Lin and Carmelo Anthony co-exist?
The question burning on everyone’s mind in the basketball universe recently centers around former Syracuse star Carmelo Anthony and current sensation Jeremy Lin. Anthony has been out for the majority of Lin’s amazing run with the New York Knicks—save six or so minutes—and everyone’s wondering what’s going to happen when Anthony returns. On the one…
Review: Mission Impossible 4 — Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol is an action movie that dazzles and captivates for the first hour and a half, and then overstays its welcome for the remaining 45 minutes. Because Ghost Protocol executes its first two action sequences so flawlessly, it ends up hurting itself in an anticlimactic ending. The first Mission Impossible came out 15 years ago and…
Review: Amazon — Kindle Fire
When Amazon announced in October that they were releasing a new tablet computer, many billed it as a main competitor to Apple’s iPad. Now that the Fire has been out for several months and has already had one major software overhaul, we have found out that, while the Fire is perfectly functional for many things,…