By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [Editors note: A version of this post appears in the Sept. 18, 2014, edition of the Rutland Reader.] The first season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was a mixed bag. After a slow start, the back end of the season took off after Captain America: The Winter Soldier turned the Marvel Universe’s…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF Editor’s note: This review contains major spoilers for both Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. just wrapped its first clunky, wildly uneven season last night with a strong finale that sets up a number of interesting stories for season two. While much of this…
By JIM SABATASO | WRITER Earlier today, comedian and Twitter Jedi Patton Oswalt took to his feed to apologize for a series of offensive Tweets he never tweeted. Here’s a taste: The FUCK is wrong with me? Last Tweet deleted. The victims of the Holocaust deserve our highest respect, not penis limericks. — Patton Oswalt…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Rated: PG-13 Directed by Marc Web Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Sally Field The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has the unfortunate luck of being the first superhero blockbuster to follow Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the best Marvel flick since 2012’s “The Avengers.”…
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [This interview originally appeared in the January 24, 2013, edition of the Rutland Reader.] Caitlin Canty doesn’t get stage fright. Behind her guitar, the Proctor-born singer-songwriter is all confidence and grace — comfortable in her own skin and her own voice. Fearlessness is a quality that serves a professional musician…
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