Killers, Hot Fuss (2004)

Music

Popular music consists of a world of competing values. On one hand pop music reviewers, with their storehouse of knowledge about rock’n’roll history and…

Snow Patrol, The Final Straw (2004)

Music

On their website Snow Patrol’s bio describes this album as “raw emotion made flesh.” I think that is a fairly apt summary of the…

Linkin Park, Meteora (2003)

Music

A few years ago Rolling Stone reviewed the debut album of a relativity unknown southern California band. The review was unflattering, dismissing the band…

The Killers, Hot Fuss (2004)

Music

Don't let the name of this of this Las Vegas quartet fool you; they are not an ultra-aggressive death metal group. Actually they land…

Chevelle, This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In (2004)

Music

On their third full-length EP Peter, Samuel and Joseph (the three brothers who form Chevelle) deliver an aggressive powerhouse of an album. Chevelle’s third…

Everything is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber, 2005)

Movies

Everything Is Illuminated is based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer. The film tells of the author's search for…

Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)

Movies

Collateral is a fast-paced action film but it is much more than that. Director Michael Mann (Ali, The Insider, Heat) has a penchant for…

Saved! (Brian Dannelly, 2004)

Movies

A few years ago I had an epiphany. There was a period in my Christian life where I became extremely frustrated and upset about…

Wit (Mike Nichols, 2001)

Movies

"I am not in isolation because I have cancer, because I have a tumor the size of a grapefruit. No, I am in isolation…