Film Reviews

[rating=8.00] As we move through the stages of our lives, each and every one of us carries our own personal baggage – the weight of our sins and our misgivings, learning as we do that the burdens of our pasts are ours and ours alone. At the end of the day, no one can pick […]

Whereas the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy introduced a new generation to the wonders of fantasy, ‘The Hobbit’, as a whole, feels like exists only to capture the dollar of a demographic.

[rating=4.00] Look, Hollywood, can we talk? This is getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous. This trend of splitting the final entry of a beloved franchise into two movies is a dangerous pit, and you’ve fallen into it. It was sort of understandable with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Coming in almost 900 pages, the book certainly […]

[rating=5.00] A lot has changed in the last 20 years — looking back on it now, the 90’s feel almost quaint. It was a time when the internet was a novelty (a fad, they said, on par with the HAM radio phase of the 70’s), the economy was booming, a robust middle class served as […]

[rating=6.00] After I attend a movie screening, I typically like to sit and marinate for a few days before I crack open the laptop and sit down to write a review. I’m sure some critics like to rush home and get it all out in a quick burst so they can, if nothing else, stop […]

[rating=7.00] I’ve got a friend who argues that superheroes are one of the few common bounds that connects the young and the old. I can’t really disagree with that. The eight-year-old little girl and the 80-year-old man can find a lot of common ground, as far as interests go, with the increasingly growing world of […]

[rating=10.00] As moviegoers, we’ve been burned so many times by buzz that many of us are left jaded and wary of the pre-release hype machine. It’s hard, really, to take these things seriously anymore. Personally, I add to this mix my natural inclination towards cynical skepticism about anything that anyone tells me is a definite […]

[rating=7.00] The revenge thriller is, by nature, a limited genre. Sure, you can play with tropes and flip the script as much as you like; in the end, though, your basic structure is still going to come down to “You wronged me; I make it right.” After seeing it a thousand times, the story itself […]

[rating=9.00] Written and Directed by: David Ayer Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman It’s easy for us, as civilians, to regard a returning solider as a hero. From the comfort of our couch, it seems like such a simple equation. “That guy,” we tell ourselves “is a hero.” We aren’t wrong, of course, in our […]

[rating=2.00] At some point in the future, some bright eyed and rosy-cheeked young film scholar will sit at his computer and write a paper on the current period of cinematic history. By that time, I’m sure, the era we’re living through will have become known as “the shared universe period” and much ink (digital or […]