Music
Mike Robertson
The story of the individual caught between duty and desire has been told in a thousand ways, but it's a story that still has the power to captivate.

Music
Mike Robertson

Music
Mike Robertson

Comedy
Mike Robertson
Nostalgia is a reductive, lazy and ultimately boring activity that reductive, lazy and ultimately boring people use to shirk responsibility for the supposedly sucky present.

Music
Mike Robertson
It's difficult, if not impossible, to predict whether a movie will be good or bad. Sometimes you hear about a movie that just sounds stupid ("Avatar" comes to mind), and then it makes a billion dollar...

Music
Mike Robertson
Over the last 25 to 30 years, we in the United States have become increasingly aware and fascinated with Japanese pop culture. Anime, manga, Pokémon, Dragonballs, Airbenders and all manner of odd, wha...

Music
Mike Robertson
Sequels usually maintain a certain consistency from their source material. Even if it isn't a direct continuation of the original story, the characters and their places within the fictional universe a...

Music
Mike Robertson
In "Mother," 20-something Yoon Do-joon (Bin Won) lives with his mom (Hye-ja Kim), still sharing a bed with her and allowing her to treat him like a boy. She watches Do-joon while she works, worries ab...

Music
Mike Robertson
As we've seen several times over the last 30 years, adapting sketches from "Saturday Night Live" into full-length movies is a hit-and-miss proposition. For every "The Blues Brothers," we get five "Con...

Music
Mike Robertson
Art, in its purest form, isn't about money or fans or Facebook liking or even about making sense to anyone in particular. It's about the artist doing whatever he or she feels like to move an inner vis...

Music
Mike Robertson
While people of a certain mind-set view making and enjoying art as a lazy, self-indulgent and ultimately wasteful activity, a lot of other people view it as absolutely necessary for preserving identit...

Music
Mike Robertson
On its surface, fame seems like a straightforward proposition: Someone does something that is spontaneously recognized by a large number of people. These people all agree together that this person is ...

Music
Mike Robertson
The end of the world is one of those subjects that people everywhere simultaneously fear and can't stop thinking about. Our mixed reaction to the world's death is a reflection of a struggle with o...

Music
Mike Robertson
Each United States war has produced its own kind of war movie. World War II films generally celebrate the virtues of heroic sacrifice; the Cold War warned against the soul-vampirism of functional Comm...

Music
Mike Robertson
Francis Ford Coppola is an odd duck. Insofar as he has the same type of name recognition and public persona as Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg and many other directors of his gen...