New September Releases Make The Back To School Experience A Little More Tolerable By Jeff Feuerhaken Pack up your schoolbooks and break out your warm jackets, because Fall has fallen upon us. Don’t be too sad while you’re sitting in class listening to some harebrained professor monotonously drone on about logarithms though, because you can…
Sausage Party Is A Value-Pak Of R-Rated Humor, And It’s Smarter Than You Think By Jeff Feuerhaken The early buzz on Sausage Party, the new animated comedy from the minds of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Jonah Hill, among others, was that it was a raunchy subversion of the tried and true Pixar formula, but with food characters…
The Loud Feedback Episode 8 (The Gomes Choke Out Special Edition) In this episode, the guys do a special Comic Con edition of Stoked/Not Stoked, plus discuss things like Suicide Squad, the new Descendents album Hypercaffium Spazzinate, burrito joints, and Gomes getting choked out at a Jesus Lizard show. -Jeff and Mike catch up and…
DC’s Suicide Squad Is Typical Comic Book Movie Fun, No More, No Less By Jeff Feuerhaken DC comics and Warner Bros. found themselves in a peculiar place after their latest megablockbuster, Batman V Superman, was met with unprecedented polarity from fans and critics alike. Some loved it, some loathed it, and despite the fact that…
Some New Newness Coming In August Gives Us Reason To Celebrate By Jeff Feuerhaken Sad, sad times are upon us, as summer is beginning to wind down. But figuring I’m an actual adult and haven’t had a real summer off in dog years, then there’s not much difference between summer and any other time of year,…
Despite Its Best Intentions, Ghostbusters Is Ultimately A Missed Opportunity By Jeff Feuerhaken Unlike a large and very vocal percentage of the moviegoing population, I was rooting for Ghostbusters, the Paul Feig-directed reboot of the 1984 action/comedy classic, to succeed. This project had been exiled to development hell for a seemingly indefinite amount of…
Free State Of Jones Is An Engaging, Albeit Problematic, Glorification Of A Civil War Hero By Jeff Feuerhaken The War Film, like war itself, has become something of an American tradition. Whether the film’s focus is on the war itself, or is merely a story set against the background of war, we as filmgoers have become acclimated…
July Fireworks On Screen And Stereo By Jeff Feuerhaken Beach days, barbecues, late sunsets, and heaps of new movies and albums can only mean one thing: summer is in full swing! July brings us more of those summer blockbusters you all love so much. I’m talking about The BFG, The Legend Of Tarzan, (female) Ghostbusters,…
The Loud Feedback Podcast Episode 7 (The Intercourse Awakens) In this episode, hosts Jeff Feuerhaken and Mike Gomes welcome guest Steven Juliano to discuss the I Am Ghost reunion and his new novel, as well as review Alice Through The Looking Glass and the brand new Thrice album, To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere…
Despite Cringe-Worthy Depp-shtick, Alice Through The Looking Glass Actually Isn’t Terrible By Jeff Feuerhaken And the award for the most irritating character to ever grace the screen goes to… Ok, I get it. There is a ton of hate floating around on the interwebs for Disney’s Alice Through The Looking Glass, the late-to-the-tea-party follow up…