Why are this summer’s movies sucking so badly? This week we trace the cause back a few months to Valentine’s Day, when Rafe warned everyone that Taylor Swift was sucking the talent out of the room. See how many of those cast members are in today’s duds. Also, contrasting reviews of The A-Team, The Karate Kid, looks at Jeff Bridges’ Tron and Wild Bill, and the introduction of... 

I don’t know that there’s been an overwhelming desire for the 1980s television series The A-Team to have a big screen adaptation. Looking at old shows that would be ripe for adaptation, the series that made Mr. T a star does seem like a natural fit, with the potential for crazy action sequences and a quantity of explosions that would make Michael Bay envious. Now the movie is here, but in a summer... 

Closing Tabs started as a weekly look at news we didn’t cover on the site throughout the week. As the site has grown, however, we’ve moved away from reporting most news (you can catch most of it regurgitated on other sites anyway) in favor of more original opinions and editorials. Still, that news is out there, clogging up the tabs on our browsers, so now we offer the column as a Tuesday/Thursday... 

Each week we take note of some stories circling the Internet that for some reason, whether it be time or fate or lack of personal interest, we don’t wind up covering on the site. By the end of the week, we wind up with a bunch of tabs open on our browsers and newsreaders that just end up sitting there waiting for more attention. Here’s our attempt to put them to some use, allowing us to close the... 

Science fiction is always at its best when it serves as social commentary. Giant robots and nanotechnology are fun, but, as a genre, science fiction is capable of so much more than just entertainment, opening an eye on society’s shortcomings and even offering solutions. District 9 may not offer any solutions, but the social commentary is nearly impossible to miss, and the movie is a clear example...