Peter Jackson has been on the shame list since "King Kong." He has always come off as self-important and needs to be in charge of everything. Now, he's trying to bring "The Hobbit" to the big screen. Sound awesome? Hardly. Entertainment Weekly reported...

‘Footprints'-Miles Davis If you want to hear Miles Davis at the top of his game, look no further than "Footprints" from classic 1966 album, "Miles Smiles." The tune, written by Davis' saxophonist Wayne Shorter, is played with the typical freewheeling...

Rating: 9 / 10 Gavin Hood's "Rendition" is a film where simple legalities form an unstable foundation of misunderstanding, lies, and deceit. Reese Witherspoon plays Isabella El-Ibrahimi, a wife and mother whose Egyptian-American husband Anwar (Omar Metwally)...

There are a million ways to appreciate music, but there is nothing better than vinyl. People can talk all day about mp3s, or even CDs, but vinyl provides an all-around better experience and listen. Smaller bands, which may or may not be worth your time,...

Rating: 2 / 10 Director Tom Brady has released his disappointing sports movie comedy spoof "The Comebacks." The only thing worse than the over-abundance of reality shows is a parody movie gone wrong. With lame character names such as Coach Lambeau Fields...

Saturday night at Otto's Main Room, Halloween got started early with three rock bands reveling in the twisted. The showcase featured headliners Gabba Gabba Hey, a Ramones tribute band. Dressed in black leather jackets and wigs, they sped through a greatest...

8.5 / 10 "30 Days of Night" was originally an astounding graphic novel by Steve Niles. The cinematic adaptation of the same name centers around estranged-husband-and-wife sheriff team Eben and Stella Oleson (Josh Hartnett and Melissa George). The two...

As the seasons change, The Fray's song "All at Once" exceptionally explains how relationships change. The Fray is a duo from Colorado that formed in 2002, when Isaac Slade (piano/lead vocals) teamed up with Joe King (guitar/vocals), Slade's former schoolmate....

Rating 8 / 10 "Gone Baby Gone" is the film the Affleck brothers have been waiting their whole lives for. Ben Affleck, who directed and adapted the story from Dennis Lehane's novel, can finally be recognized as a credible filmmaker after such career choices...

4 / 10 Jimmy Eat World's sudden rise to fame is the kind of story that both the music industry and the press love. Essentially, four remarkably average looking guys from Arizona caught lightning in a bottle with a catchy single that promised its listeners,...

This season, the best part of Thursday nights has been going through some changes. Going on their fourth season, the ensemble of "The Office" has endured the threat of downsizing, a merger and their former temp being promoted as Michael Scott's (Steve...

Fred Thompson is not Ronald Reagan. To political gurus, perhaps this is redundant. For the politically apathetic, otherwise known as the other two-thirds of America, this discrepancy is in desperate need of clarification. Political analysts are questioning...