Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu “Deadpool” takes tongue-in-cheek to a whole, other-worldly level. Instead, it takes the tongue, attaches a samurai sword to it, gouges it through the cheek causing blood to spray everywhere and then laughs gleefully as it skips down the lane. In short, “Deadpool” is one crazy-f***ing movie. And it’s all thanks to the…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu Walking out of The Revenant there is one major takeaway, wrapped around one lingering, awe-inspiring question: How the hell did he do that? “He” of course refers to director Alejandro G. Inarritu and “that” would be every single frame of this epic tale. The task seems so tremendous that Neil DeGrasse Tyson…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu With all the new bits coming out about marginalization of groups and people I would like to point out something that is very hard for young, college-aged adults to believe: just because someone does not like the things you do or treats you like a huge tool, because you…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu My chest felt like it was about to cave in. The sheer force pressing was like The Hulk slowly pressing his massive fist, trying to squash my heart as I lay on a brick wall. I wasn’t being attacked by a giant rage monster in an old shoe factory, but was hanging…
Selfie-sticks are for the self-indulgent Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu Things I think selfie-sticks should be used for: 1.) Mega back-scratcher; 2.) Reaching cookies on the top shelf; 3.) Lightsaber battles and; 4.) Fending off perverts. One thing they should not be used for is attaching your phone to and then taking more pictures of your big…
Like “Interstellar” before it, “The Martian” is the kind of movie where people will walk out going, “it was good, but that could totally never happen.” Oh are you one of the renowned astrophysics of the world, like Kip Thorne, who consults on these motion pictures? No? Your knowledge begins and ends with freshman physics?…
Marvel movies have transcended what is known as cinema today and it will continue to do so for years to come. In “Avengers: Age of Ultron” Joss Whedon delivers on everything you hope the movie would, creating a milestone in comic book film history that ranks up with “The Dark Knight” and “The Avengers” as…
In the words of the Almighty Louis C.K., “It’s really easy to have the body you want; you just have to want a shitty body.” Now that may sound like I struggled for a way to start this piece, but trust me, it has a point. Depending on where you’re from you may have had…
Being a nerd is not cool. It means dealing with pimples till you’re 40, being passionate about things that make others think you’re weird, dealing with rejection from the opposite sex all while being absolutely terrified of the world for the aforementioned reasons. The myth is that being a nerd is cool, when really it’s…
If you think writing Hallmark level messages in chalk on the sidewalk will change anything you’re a fool, a silly fool. People with a real problem probably find it pandering, useless and if anything, causes incessant eye rolling. Recently a movement on campus allowed students to write brief messages of love on the ground in…
The trick behind any good horror movie is to target the modern fears of the audience. Great films of the genre have in some way tackled the anxieties of whatever that generation (and even future generations) is going through. In this regard, “Unfriended” works as an enticing, engrossing and effective 80-minute stir-fest that aims its…
Last week an 8-to-1 vote was cast in favor of a Laramie Non-Discrimination Ordinance designed to stop businesses and organizations from discriminating against members of the LGBTQ community. Needless to say with all that’s going on in states like Indiana this should be chalked up as a big win for our little town. One of…
