Who would’ve thought that a movie about Barbie would actually have something profound to say? — When I saw some paparazzi photos of Margo Robbie and Ryan Gosling in their Barbie movie costumes on the Venice Boardwalk, I rolled my eyes and felt annoyed. I thought the movie was going to be dumb, and I mean dumb in a bad way. Then I saw the teaser…

Big decisions in August. That New Car Smell Well, I did it, I bought a new car. Technically, I put a down payment on a car and my bank gave me a loan, but you know the deal. I’ve been thinking about buying a new car for a couple of years…

They’re out there, but do we care? M. Night Shyamalan did. — The U.S. government had a revelatory hearing where they *gasp* confirmed that aliens are real! Cue the crickets as well as not a single American soul giving a fuck. Did they think we didn’t know? It wasn’t really a big reveal to be informed that the government has known about…

I’ve got 54 problems, and this movie is all of them rolled into one. — The disco era was one of excess and indulgences in drugs, sex, and dancing. It was a brief era, only about 10 years or so, but people are fascinated by it. Within this era, a dance club was opened by the name of Studio 54. It was a notorious disco…

Can you run when you need to? — “You want one?” It had been almost two years since she’d smoked a cigarette, and he caught her at just the right time. She’d had a shitty week that left her feeling defeated. Her conference call with the corporate office had gone south, her landlord was going to raise the…

Summer break is in the bag. Where is my sugar daddy?! Dragging My Feet Is it time to go back to work? Sadly, yes. My summer break is swiftly coming to an end and I feel both ready and not ready to head back to work. I feel ready because…

I know why this movie is no longer good. — Do you remember what you did last summer? Did it involve hitting someone with your car while your friends were with you, and then dumping the victim in a harbor and pledging to never tell anyone? Hopefully your previous summer didn’t involve murder, or maybe, hopefully it did. I don’t…

It strikes that perfect comedy balance between silly and soulful. — It’s summertime, although you wouldn’t know it by this oddly cool and cloudy weather So Cal has been experiencing since the end of May. When I was a kid, my parents would take my brother and I on some kind of vacation for a week during the summer. We usually…

I wish my life was just endless days of summer break. Please Don’t Go, Summer Break I’m halfway through my summer break and already feeling the blues about having to go back to work. I had a handful of stress dreams in the first couple of weeks after school got…