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Yesterday, I went on Twitter and was instantly spoiled about the results of the first Phelps-Lochte showdown, roughly nine hours before the race was broadcast. Among the Tweets instantly broadcasting the results were thoughts from fans expressing their disappointment in Phelps’ performance so far (for the record, he came in fourth in the 400M Individual … Continue reading
I don’t remember what I was doing circa the Athens Olympics in 2004. I was thirteen so I can’t imagine it was anything particularly earth-shattering. The 2008 games in Beijing were another story. I was seventeen, about to start my senior year of high school and for some reason, Michael Phelps became the poster boy … Continue reading
For starters: a mild SPOILER ALERT to anyone who has not seen The Dark Knight Rises. I’ve been interested in The Dark Knight Rises for a while, probably since the untimely death of Heath Ledger almost five years ago. How were they going to handle it in the six-months-off The Dark Knight? How would this … Continue reading
As I drove through the woods of New Hampshire back to the city lights of Boston this evening, a funny thing happened. As I checked the clock against my GPS to see how far away I was, a song came on shuffle and suddenly, without warning, I was eighteen years old again. The song in … Continue reading
Five years, two months and three weeks ago, I went to a movie theater and sat down to watch Spiderman 3. Now, these five years, two months and three weeks later, a reboot of the franchise has been released, the love interest changed and I feel like I can honestly say after watching it that … Continue reading
I remember the day the phrase “TomKat” became a part of the pop culture vernacular. I was fifteen years old, beginning the final stretch of my freshman year of high school. As a jaded teen, I informed my mother that their “love” was nothing more than a publicity stunt: each had major films coming out … Continue reading
I love Aaron Sorkin. This is not necessarily something I keep secret. I was obsessed with the short-lived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip during it’s run and The Social Network is one of my favorite movies. I love television. Again, not a deep, dark secret. There are a lot of new shows I love … Continue reading
I will admit that when I first heard about Magic Mike, I was not expecting great things. The first articles about it read like a standard stripper film: all surface, never going any deeper than the male lead’s washboard abs. Then the trailers came out, and I saw traces of promise among the inserts of … Continue reading
Jennifer Connors 