‘Fellowship of the Ring’ review and commentary

NDSU Spectrum: Movie review ‘Fellowship’ more long-winded than epic By JOHN HANSEN Jan. 11, 2002 There have been plenty of films over the years to provide heroes for oppressed groups — women, blacks, teenagers — but “The Fellowship of the Ring” is one of the first to provide heroes for nerds. That’s essentially what the

The really cool stuff of the Aughts wasn’t found in the mainstream (Commentary)

Time Magazine called it the “decade from hell,” but Entertainment Weekly argued, in its latest issue, what about the entertainment? However, they failed to make their own case. The Aughts really was a bad decade for mainstream entertainment. Although not, certainly, for entertainment overall. This was, after all, the decade when TV and music became