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Chief Art Critic

Sandra Bertrand

Chief Book Critic

Lee Polevoi

Chief Film Critic

Forrest Hartman

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Beth Kaiserman

Chief Music Critic

Sandra Canosa

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Angelo Franco

Senior Writer

Ulises Duenas

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‘Fool’s Paradise’ Struggles to Make Its Silent Protagonist Truly Relevant

by Ulises Duenas

Charlie Day plays a man recently released from a mental institution who has no ability to communicate with people and is largely unaware of the things going on around him. Making the character mute could have been done well, but when that character is also incapable of communicating, it makes it difficult to find him compelling. Even though his body language can be funny, it’s mostly up to the rest of the cast to deliver jokes -- which has mixed results.

A Look at Hyperviolence in Media

by Garrett Hartman

Countless videogames, films, and television series utilize this shorthand. Think of almost any piece of media set in World War II; the countless zombie films, games and TV shows. Demons are admittedly less utilized outside of games; however, trade them in for generic “aliens” in Hollywood and you have a pretty close match. We are then allowed to be happy to kill these “enemies,” and see them die in horrific ways because they are morally bankrupt.