“Some men just want to see the world burn…” Let me just say right off that with The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan and company have made the best superhero movie ever. Yes, better than Spider-Man 2. Yes, better than Superman: The Movie. And yes, better than Batman: Mask of the […]

I don’t really understand concert reviews. Reviewing something that happened once is, I don’t know, more like bragging. Will a good review convince you to travel back in time to see Tom Waits at the Ohio Theatre? And on a tour that’s already sold out, either you’ve already got a […]

So what if Wall-E has been in theaters for 10 entire days and is yesterday’s news.  We here at spunkybean don’t review things in a knee-jerk fashion in advance of a movie’s release.  No sir.  We watch movies.  Meditate on them.  Watch them again.  And again.  We sneak around the […]

It is without exaggeration that I say that the FOX Network’s cancellation of Futurama was one of the great injustices of our time. A sci-fi comedy from Simpsons creator Matt Groening, starring an alcoholic robot, it is quite frankly, one of the greatest things ever. Finding new ratings life on […]

Most attempts to turn classic TV shows into movies fail horribly. It’s a dangerous proposition. It’s especially dicey when the original series was based around an iconic performance, like the original Get Smart. Don Adams was the show. Turning it into a movie is silly, quite frankly. But the equation […]

The Wealthy Street Microcinema, in association with spunkybean, is pleased to bring you “spunkybean Night at the Movies”.  Friday, June 27, the Microcinema (located within the actual Wealthy Street Theater) will be presenting a showing of the Bruce Campbell classic Army of Darkness for just 3 bucks.  Hilarity and skeletons abound! As […]