School 57, Where Are You?

by Ben Coffman

You don’t need Facebook in Moscow. Keeping track of classmates is easy — you simply stomp up the stairs to the cramped apartment where your old friend used to live and, odds are, they’re still there. What’s hard is keeping up with the capitalist pace of new Russia while having grown up back in the U.S.S.R., or feigning surprise when a documentary sheds light on this problem. In My...

Cutting Room for May 11

by Ryan Syrek

• Once I asked an ex-girlfriend if she liked Fellini and she said she preferred ravioli. If she’s out there reading this, I recommend highly that she check out Amarcod, director Federico Fellini’s 1973 Academy Award-winning flick, at Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater (filmstreams.org) on May 17 at 7 p.m. The film is a joint presentation with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and will be...

Mjolnir? I Hardly Knew Her!

by Ryan Syrek

Thor

Someone tell the soulless, suit-wearing executive of suck who perpetually insists upon shoehorning a wafer-thin, nausea-inducing love story into each and every action-heavy motion picture that he’s basically dropping a turd into a pool party. The lasses and dudes who comprise the core audience have never swayed an uninterested buddy into attending a comic book flick by promising an...

Movieha - Omaha’s Movie Podcast (May 6)

by Ryan Syrek

Welcome back!

If you're one of the folks who have been kind enough to give our teeny-tiny little ole podcast a chance, thanks so much. The response to the first episode was really great, and we hope to keep you coming back for more. In this week's episode, Matt has an epic giggle fit, I yell way too loud in at least 3 spots, and we battle over whether Badlanders is a terrible movie or whether...

Cutting Room for May 4

by Ryan Syrek

• This may seem random, but you should become a fan of Aksarben Cinema on Facebook (facebook.com/aksarbencinema). Unlike 90 percent of companies whose Facebook pages are as limp and timid as the “before” guy in a Cialis commercial, Aksarben regularly brings engaging content and near-daily updates and news. And sometimes that news involves cupcakes (as in, Jones Brothers), which as we all know...

Movieha - Omaha’s favorite movie podcast!

by Ryan Syrek

It's finally time, folks. Last week was just a warm-up, a precursor, an audio appetizer for the main entree your ear tongues have been waiting to feast upon: This is officially the first episode (first REAL episode) of Movieha! Featuring 100% less factual inaccuracies, this podcast is but the first of TWO you will be receiving as we endeavor to start a regular cycle of deliver podcastical...

The Bald and the Sweaty

by Ryan Syrek

Fast 5

In each installment of the long-running 007 series, you anxiously anticipate hearing the deliciously droll namedrop: “Bond, James Bond.” In each installment of the inexplicably long-running Fast and Furious series, you anxiously anticipate the moment in which the two bro-tastic, muscle-milk-enhanced non-characters look like they’re about to finally drop the pretense and make out. If...