Film: Adult Beginners Starring: Nick Kroll, Rose Byrne Directed by: Ross Katz Nick Kroll has finally hit his mark. Following years of making a living from stage to television and back again portraying an asshole in one way or another, comedian turned producer and actor, Nick Kroll has developed something undeniably great with Adult Beginners. […]
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A Complete List Of 2015 Academy Award Nominees
January 15th, 2015 
James Shotwell The nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards were revealed this morning during a live webcast from Los Angeles. Many of the nominees were fairly obvious, with Boyhood and Birdman commanding a large amount of nominations, but there were several good (and strange) surprises along the way. Whiplash, for instance, walked away with five nominations, including […]
A Complete List Of 2015 Golden Globes Winners
January 11th, 2015 James Shotwell The Golden Globes were tonight, and if you’re anything like the UTG crew you didn’t have the time or desire to watch the three-hour telecast you could just as easily follow on Twitter. We paid attention to winners as they rolled in, but out of thirty contributors I would wager no one on our staff […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife’ Delivers Big, Inconsistent Laughs
December 29th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife Starring: Donald Faison, Patrick Wilson Directed By: Scott Foley Following a long tradition of comedic films about murder that never find the right groove, Let’s Kill Ward’s Wife is an inconsistent romp that works more often than not. Ward is a full-grown man with a decent job, a beautiful new […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Iranian Journalist / Writer Maziar Bahari Talks ‘Rosewater,’ Jon Stewart, And Risky Journalism
November 13th, 2014 Sam Cohen Rosewater, the new film directed by The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart, is based upon a real man’s incarceration and torturing for reporting objectively during a dark time in Iran in June of 2009. Maziar Bahari is that man and UTG got to sit down with him to talk about the film, its production, and his […]
He Is Legend’s ‘I Am Hollywood’ Turns 10 Years Old
November 2nd, 2014 Brian Leak On August 5, 2005, I was sitting in a chair in a stranger’s apartment in Bakersfield, CA, 6 hours from my own home. The apartment belonged to the members of a local punk band called Gramercy Riff; a band I didn’t know existed before that night. Sitting directly across from me was one of my […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Fury’ Offers A Haunting and Thrilling Vision Of World War II
October 17th, 2014 James Shotwell Film: Fury Starring: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman Directed By: David Ayer Fury is a violent film about bad men doing bad things in the heart of Nazi-occupied Germany at the tail end of World War II. It’s the complete opposite of a feel-good film, but it just might be one of the year’s best cinematic […]
REVIEW: Jason Aldean – ‘Old Boots, New Dirt’
October 7th, 2014 James Shotwell Artist: Jason Aldean Album: Old Boots, New Dirt Genre: New Country After weeks spent atop the country music charts with his hit single “Burnin’ It Down,” Jason Aldean has prepared a hit-and-miss collection of material for his sixth studio album. Looking at Jason Aldean it’s hard to believe he has been a music industry mainstay […]
‘Clerks III’ Moving Forward As Financing Is Secured
September 29th, 2014 James Shotwell Kevin Smith has been teasing and talking about planning to make Clerks III for over a year at this point, but it was not until this week that the man behind the View Askew universe offered any hard evidence (outside his own tweets) that the film was moving forward. Speaking to a packed house during […]
RIOT FEST CHICAGO: The Good, The Bad, And The Totally Weird
September 22nd, 2014 Matthew Leimkuehler Alternative music fans far and wide congregated in The Windy City Sept. 12-14 for the greatest punk rock show on Earth, Riot Fest Chicago. The weekend was imaginably filled with amazing sets, carnival rides, beer, and deep fried everything. This year’s Riot Fest Chicago was comprised of hundreds of bands, 7 stages (8 on Friday […]
‘Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle’ 10 Years Later: Still High After All This Time
August 1st, 2014 James Shotwell In the summer of 2004 I was seventeen and living a life that could best be described as straight edge. It’s not that I lived in a world thriving with drugs and alcohol that I fought daily to avoid. On the contrary, I came up in a modest, middle class household in a tiny rural […]
UTG TV: Warped 2014 With Yellowcard
July 24th, 2014 Derek Scancarelli “I hope that somewhere, whoever is sitting in an office, looking at the internet and counting his money, that he decides that this is a good year for a new Yellowcard record.” It’s hard to believe that Yellowcard released their classic record Ocean Avenue a decade ago. I’ll spare you the redundant “list-blog” type of […]