Beyond the Rhetoric

As you may already know, I maintain an active presence at many different online communities. You may already follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my YouTube channel. Not all of that content ends up getting featured on Beyond the Rhetoric, so it’s quite possible that you miss a few of those updates. Flickr is [...]

Most people know about the most popular movie genres. You might say it’s an action movie, a drama, or a documentary. If you want to be more specific, you might say it’s a buddy comedy or a nature documentary. But then again, you can be even more descriptive and sometimes this requires coming up with [...]

Apollo 18 (2011) As a species, we’ve always been fascinated with Space. From Star Trek to Star Wars, we’ve always wondered about what is out there. That’s a big part of how the Apollo missions got off the ground (terrible pun intended), but did you know about the secret 18th expedition to the moon? That [...]

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011) The first movie in this trilogy, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, went on to become a cult classic. It was irreverent, nonsensical and hilarious. The sequel didn’t capture that same kind of magic, so I was cautiously optimistic at best when I heard that a [...]

Real Steel (2011) With an absurdly silly premise like this, you can’t help but to feel like the people behind this movie are playing a practical joke on the world. Strangely enough, though, Real Steel is mildly thoughtful, offering depth, humor, and plenty of robot-on-robot action. Yes, it’s easy to say that Real Steel is [...]