Author: Amanda Rossenrode

Look, I like money just as much as the next guy. It buys you swell things, like food and jaunty hats. In fact, I would go so far to say I would like some more of it.  I keep spending mine on stupid stuff like utilities and new tires. I’m a business savvy enough person to understand that sequels make lots of money. The next Avengers movie could just be the extended cast playing Mario Go Kart for three hours and it would still make all the money in the world on its opening day. We’d have to go back…

I had planned to buy a black-market wristband for this weekend’s Coachella (or Coachella 2, as the cool kids call it) but I got a message from my landlord that if I bounce another check due to wristband related problems, then I can take my problems to the streets (and not in a funky Step Up way).  So sadly, this year I will not be able to partake in the magic of what reviewers called a breathtaking and near religious experience of the performance of the yodeling kid from Walmart. If you too cannot afford a month’s rent to sweat…

On Monday in a Reddit AMA, Westworld showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy threatened/promised to post ALL of the spoilers and plot points of Season 2 before the shows release in an effort to quell spoilers and fan theories. : “[Fans theorizing] creates a larger problem for us, though, in terms of the way your guesswork is reported online. ‘Theories’ can actually be spoilers, and the line between the two is confusing. It’s something we’ve been thinking about since last season. The fans of Game of Thrones, for instance, rallied around and protected the secrets of the narrative in part…

When I saw that there was a trailer for a new installment of Karate Kid starring Ralph Macchio and Billy Zabka I figured it was a joke. Some Jimmy Fallon sketch that was floating around. Upon further investigation I discovered it is in fact genuine. Genuinely badass. Now, even after discovering it wasn’t some talk show host being cute, I hesitated to watch it.  It still whiffed of a little sadness.  The Karate Kid series was taken out back and beaten to death with a shovel by Karate Kid III. I don’t even care what happened in the Jaden Smith…

In 2010 Michelle Obama introduced the “Let’s Move!” campaign, encouraging children to put down the controller, go outside and kick a ball or talk to another kid without the use of a headset. In 2016, Pokémon Go encouraged kids again to go outside and run into the street in search of Squirtles. Now Netflix is introducing Patches, which encourages children to stay inside and watch as many hours of TV as possible until their parents drag them kicking and screaming to bed, and then some. Anyone who’s ever been a kid or met a kid knows that kids love worthless…

When I first read that Netflix was coming out with a movie by the director of Moon (Duncan Jones), set in the same universe and with Sam Rockwell returning under a shroud of mystery, I immediately texted my husband and sister, the latter having enthusiastically recommended Moon to the former, and then on to me. My sister texted me back after a few minutes, “Uh…the reviews aren’t very good.” That is putting it kindly. The opening lines of the reviews I scanned contained words like “Failure” “Misstep” and “Disappointing”. I then made the noise a child does when unwrapping a…

Valentine’s Day is approaching. Time to romance your sweetheart with flowers, a nice lobster dinner, and the undented box of wine. Light some candles, watch Titanic and dry each other’s tears as you vow that you will always check for a pulse before shoving them into the depths of the ocean. Then again, flowers die, Titanic gets a little cheesier with each viewing and some people are allergic to lobster. I know this and now my husband knows this, because I once accidentally poisoned him with a homemade lobster dinner that left him with a closed up throat, gasping for…

Not everyone is a diehard football fan but that doesn’t mean that you need to stay locked in your room watching TBS’s Katherine Heigel marathon! Who doesn’t love a championship game? It’s a socially acceptable excuse to day drink and sample many different types of chips without judgmental people asking you to please leave the grocery store. There are plenty of ways to get the most out of the game without being one of those jerks who repeatedly declares that they are “only watching for the commercials”. Place a Wager on the Game. Nothing makes a game more interesting than…

Hey guess what guys! They’re rebooting Greatest American Hero, that show you saw clips of on I Love The 80’s! If that’s not you’re cup of tea, you can look forward to reboots/revivals of Charmed, now with more feminism, because I guess that was a problem with the first one, or Murphey Brown, or Roseanne, or Magnum PI or Cagney and Lacey. If you can’t wait for all that nostalgia, you can currently watch Fuller House, (which made the sage decision that Kimmy Gibbler was not a bigger character in the original), The X-Files, Will and Grace, Twin Peaks, Gilmore…

I recently took out a payday loan to see The Last Jedi in the theater. If I didn’t have a big purse to sneak in sodas and candy it would have been two loans.  Now, enough words have been written on the Last Jedi to fill every book in the world so I will be brief in my review. I liked it. That said, during one scene, it looks like a character may be about to meet the Jedi Temple in the Sky. As the tension built on screen, my cold practical mind obliterated it with the thought. “No way.…