09 May 2013
Ender’s Game: Trailer Watch
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
To say that I love Ender’s Game would be an understatement. It is one of the books (along with The Giver, Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, and The Prydain Chronicles) that really …
08 May 2013
READ THESE: YA Beach Reading Edition
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
In honor of the upcoming release of the cinematic rendition of Divergent (a book series I really enjoy, but don’t quite love), I figured I’d point out some under-explored gems …
22 February 2013
Read This: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
By Rachael Nisenkier // Books
The Fault In Our Stars is a book that goes exactly how you expect it to, and yet breaks your heart in ways you never could have guessed. In that …
13 February 2013
Soderbergh’s Side Effects
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
I wasn’t sure what to expect walking into Side Effects, Steven Soderbergh’s supposed last feature film. I went due to a never-ending love of Soderbergh, and a desire to see …
04 February 2013
Series Wrap Up: 30 Rock
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
For a period in the show’s 4th and 5th seasons, it became incredibly hip to decry the downfall of 30 Rock. But suck it haters, because they just managed to …
02 February 2013
“There’s Nothing Hotter Than A Girl With Brains”
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
Warm Bodies is a movie simultaneously blessed and cursed by Twilight. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that the widescreen release of the Nicholas Hoult-starring zombie-romantic-comedy owes its budget, …
01 February 2013
Faces of the Young and Stupid
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
I’ve written previously about my connection with the Girls’ character Hannah. It is not a connection I made up – I have literally received phone calls and texts from many …
01 July 2012
Brave, a Pixar Film
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
I wish I knew what it would feel like to walk into a screening of Brave knowing nothing. Although I would miss out on the little somersault my stomach does …
28 June 2012
Season Wrap Up: Girls
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably admit that I feel a greater connection with the characters on Girls than I probably have with any characters since Freaks …
28 June 2012
Summer Movie Preview- July
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
How has your summer movie season been going? Despite an early high, I’ve been in a bit of a movie slump of late, with a string of films that failed …
14 June 2012
Season Wrap Up: Mad Men
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
Matthew Weiner said that this season of Mad Men was about the unhappiness at the center of contentment. The season finale, “Phantom,” dealt with this idea explicitly – making that …
13 June 2012
Prometheus
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
I recently read an article on Cracked about the way that many classic sci-fi and fantasy films disguise incredibly straight forward stories with amazing worlds. Take Avatar. The movie itself …
12 June 2012
Season Wrap Up: Veep
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
When Veep first premiered, Kelly took the show to task for being endlessly cynical and overusing “shocking” profanity. She also admitted to being a West Wing-raised idealist. I’ve never seen …
09 June 2012
Season Wrap Up: Game of Thrones
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
After last week’s (sadly unreviewed by me) action battle awesomefest, I spent most of this week’s Game of Thrones wanting to hug the characters. Maybe that’s not the right reaction …
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