Hunter M. Daniels

January 7, 2010

Lil Wayne Denied Rebirth *

By Hunter M. Daniels

PREFACE: Lil Wayne's newest record, Rebirth, was accidentally shipped to some 500 Amazon customers who had preordered it. I was lucky enough to track down one of the physical copies. It appears that this leak has caused ...

November 12, 2009

Mickey Avalon Really Is Mr. Right

By Hunter M. Daniels

When Mickey Avalon took the stage Sunday at Velvet Jones co-eds started making out, tattooed women began to dance on their beau's shoulders and spastic groupies began to writhe and grind up against anyone in sight. Meanw...

October 29, 2009

Hacky “Saw” Flicks Mature ***

By Hunter M. Daniels

"Saw" was never designed to become a franchise. The first film made a point of killing off all its main characters, save for one who was already dying of an inoperable brain tumor. But when a movie grosses 100 times its ...

October 22, 2009

Foxy Sounds at the Hub

By Hunter M. Daniels

The line formed early for The Sounds' Monday-night gig at the Hub, which was a fortunate thing, because the real show was over by the time the headliners even took the stage.

October 22, 2009

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: [REC]

By Hunter M. Daniels

1968's "Rosemary's Baby" featured a shot of a woman sitting in a bedroom on the phone with her face blocked by the edge of the doorway. Legend has it that at the first screening, nearly the entire audience leaned forward...

October 15, 2009

Will The Real John Leguizamo Please Stand Up?

By Hunter M. Daniels

John Leguizamo is a complicated man, a man full of contradictions and seemingly mutually exclusive ideas. He has turned this premise into a long career as a character actor and performance artist.

October 8, 2009

“Zombieland” Brings Vibrancy to the Undead ***

By Hunter M. Daniels

"Zombieland" features decapitations, mutilations, lacerations, disembowelments, exploding heads, dead children and about 400 on-screen deaths. It is also laugh-out-loud funny.

October 1, 2009

Filmic Future Looks Bleak **

By Hunter M. Daniels

Remember that one movie where everyone is plugged into machines that created a large-scale simulacra of the world until a single man rises up and frees all human consciousness? Or how about the one where the cop searches...

September 24, 2009

“Meatballs” Provides Large Serving of Fun ****1/2

By Hunter M. Daniels

In the fall of 2002, MTV premiered "Clone High," a deliriously funny spoof of teen dramas and world history. Less than 4 months later the show was canceled due to the fatal combination of mediocre ratings and a hunger st...

September 24, 2009

Off The Beaten Path: “Brain Damage”

By Hunter M. Daniels

This year, Artsweek will be trying out some new columns and features as a way to better serve you, the student. This column is the first in a series designed to alert students to films that they might otherwise miss. Gen...

September 17, 2009

Let’s All Go To The Movies: Fall 2009

By Hunter M. Daniels

The summer of 2009 was Hollywood's most profitable ever, with studios raking in over $4.3 billion. Of course, most of the movies sucked. From the obnoxious "Wolverine" to the soporific "Transformers: Revenge of the Falle...

May 28, 2009

“T4” Is Mechanical As They Come *

By Hunter M. Daniels

When it came out back in 1984, "The Terminator" was a wild ride full of action and adventure with killer science fiction hook.. It was so good that few people noticed that the sequel, subtitled "Judgment Day" was ostensi...

May 28, 2009

“Brothers Bloom:” Con-ning Linguists ****

By Hunter M. Daniels

In a summer full of dumber-than-dumb spectacles, and subtext-free action-porn, "The Brothers Bloom" is a breath of fresh air.

May 21, 2009

Extravaganza 2009

By Hunter M. Daniels

Hot off the heels of the one-two punch of its 2008 EP, The Bake Sale, and its 2009 mix-tape, Gone Fishing, The Cool Kids played a mid-afternoon set at this weekend's Extravaganza.

May 14, 2009

No Moldy Peaches Here ***

By Hunter M. Daniels

In essence, Peaches is a woman, playing as a man who is dressed as a woman. "You're staring at my ass / and my beard / and my moustache," she taunts on "Serpentine," a track from her latest album, I Feel Cream, a sleaze ...

May 7, 2009

“Terra” is a Rarity Among Kids’ Films

By Hunter M. Daniels

"Battle for Terra 3D" is an imaginative children's film about a race of aliens who make first contact with a new species -- humans. Humans have abandoned Earth after destroying the ecosystem during interplanetary warfar...