Articles by Bjorn Olson

The 5th Quarter

Rick Bieber

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2011

There are two kinds of bad movies. On the one hand, there are movies that are incomprehensible, illogical, cheaply made rush-jobs usually c...

The Elephant in the Living Room

Michael Webber

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2011

The explosion of reality TV has created an insatiable appetite for crazy people doing crazy things, and while the candy-coated sound bite a...

The Guard

John Michael McDonagh

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2011

If there is a renaissance in the talkative cops and robbers genre right now it's being led by a pair of Irish brothers: Martin and John McD...

Our Idiot Brother

Jesse Peretz

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2011

The nebulous nature of family is explored in Our Idiot Brother, a funny film that loses a bit of its charm via some one-dimensional charact...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Manos: The Hands of Fate"

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011

Easily one of the most popular of the cinematic disasters revived by Mystery Science Theater 3000, the abominable Manos: The Hands of Fate...

Force of Nature

Sturla Gunnarsson

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011

On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Dr. David Suzuki (the avuncular face of environmentalism in this nation since the '70s) delivered wha...

Battle for the Planet

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011

So, apparently we're in the midst of an environmental crisis. Committees have been formed, leaders have been petitioned and brows have been...

Repeaters

Carl Bessai

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2011

It's nearly impossible to talk about Repeaters without at least offhandedly mentioning Groundhog Day. While the two films are vastly differ...