I Kent Believe It Got Better!

by Ryan Syrek

Man of Steel

Superman is lame. Fight it all you want to, DC Comic loyalists, but there’s a reason people cheer whenever Batman bests him. Consumed by a fetishized, flag-waving patriotism that makes his status as a full-fledged illegal alien somewhat hilarious these days, Superman is basically an American god. Invulnerable, infallible (at least in terms of his moral compass) and inapproachable to most of us...

No Love for this Deuce

by Ryan Syrek

Venus and Serena

It’s about hunters and gatherers: A good documentarian hunts the truth, stalking prey at camera-point, ready to spear any accidental insight and overlooked perspective that is scared out of the bushes. Directors Maiken Baird and Michelle Major are mere gatherers, collecting whatever the legendary Williams sisters drop down to them and presenting it to the audience as if we should be thankful...

Blas-funny

by Ryan Syrek

This is the End

Let’s talk about rape jokes.

Yes, you’re reading a review for This is the End, a comedy so profane it manages to defile Satan. Think about that for a second; this is a comedy so epically vulgar, so cataclysmically obscene that it defiles the greatest fictional defiler. It is the furthest point on a map from Puritanical. Reviewing a comedy is hard; you don’t want to just repeat and reveal...

Movieha! Your Favorite Movie Podcast

by Ryan Syrek

On Your Radar: Blackfish

Netflix Roulette: Kill List

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Cutting Room for June 7

by Ryan Syrek

• Yo, lissen up: On Thursday July 11 at 7 pm, Shakespea-zy is in da heezy! Film Streams is goin’ hard for The Bard, pairing a screening of Joss Whedon’s upcoming adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing with a post-show discussion, featuring the University of Nebraska at Omaha professor D. Scott Glasser and Nebraska Shakespeare’s artistic director, Vincent Carlson-Brown. That way, you can ask...

Hippie! Hippie! No Way!

by Ryan Syrek

The Source Family

Often culturally glamorized for establishment bucking, innovative musical clucking and free-spirited…lovemaking, the hippie movement of the 70s had a darker edge that tends to be glossed over. Sure, part of the poor remembrance can be blamed on a certain herb’s side effects, but it also speaks to our tendency to reduce history to broad brushstrokes when the real meaning is in the little nuances...

Locally cinematic: Get to Aksarben Cinema for Burn!

by Ryan Syrek

It's the middle of the week. You've got nothing to do but pine away for the weekend and endure whatever slop the networks throw on their free airspace during the summer months. Well, that...OR you can go to Aksarben Cinema for Burn, which is an experience not as uncomfortable as the documentary title suggests. Wednesday (June 5) and Thursday (June 6) at 7:30 pm, Aksarben is showing this...