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Stick To Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers (Album Review)

Jeannie BlueJeannie BlueJanuary 5, 2025

The first American Hardcore band to play in East Africa, Stick To Your Guns are no mere tourists when it comes to breaking down boundaries. Known for their ability to incite intellectual thought as they inspire sweaty moshpits, this Orange County quintet has blazed a ... Read More

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Movie Review)

Jason RhodeJason RhodeJanuary 5, 2025

When many people hear about J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in terms of cinema, they immediately go to Peter Jackson’s two trilogies that spanned between 2001 and 2003 (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, ... Read More

Y2K (Movie Review)

Jason RhodeJason RhodeJanuary 4, 2025

It is the year 2025… so why are we just now getting a movie named Y2K? Remember at the turn of the century when all the ‘professional’ techies said – electronics made from the mid-90s and earlier were going to, at the least, the time ... Read More

The Damned (Movie Review)

Kaitlin CushmanKaitlin CushmanJanuary 3, 2025

Thordur Palsson makes a chillingly memorable feature debut with The Damned, a Psychological Horror that plunges audiences into the icy, isolated world of a 19th-century Icelandic fishing village. Released on January 3, 2025, by Vertical, this atmospheric, slow-burn Thriller draws its power from both its ... Read More

Tremonti - The End Will Show Us How album cover

Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How (Album Review)

CrypticRockCrypticRockJanuary 3, 2025

The story of Mark Tremonti is truly one of the most compelling in modern Rock music. Famously recognized as the lead guitarist for the platinum-selling and award-winning Creed, Tremonti swiftly turned his attention to Alter Bridge in 2004. With fellow Creed members Brian Marshall and ... Read More

Final Destination 2 / New Line Cinema (2003) art

This Month In Horror Movie History – Final Destination 2 (2003)

CrypticRockCrypticRockJanuary 3, 2025

This month in Horror movie history, Final Destination 2, released in 2003, proved just how daunting it can be to try to beat death’s design. The story began in 2000 with Final Destination, the original story written by Jeffrey Reddick, which interjected some much-needed interest in ... Read More