Movie Review: Dallas Buyers Club
Alright alright alright. Dallas Buyers Club posits Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) as an Oskar Schindler type for AIDS patients and homosexuals against the FDA. That …
Biopic
Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
Slavery is an unsettling part of Americana most people like to sweep under the rug. Until recently, the horrors of the institution were relegated to …
Movie Review: Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips should not work. In today’s version of a thriller, you need crazy stunts, over-the-top dialogue, and a mono-e-mono battle between the lead villain …
Movie Review: Rush
Living on a lighted stage approaches the unreal. Like the Rush song Limelight, James Hunt and Niki Lauda would agree but bicker about how to …
Movie Review: Jobs
Steve Jobs is as amazing an innovator as they come. His ability to look past the possible and create something people themselves didn’t know they …
Movie Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The Butler serves the same purpose as Forrest Gump: it tells the story of America through the eyes of one person. In this case, the …
Movie Review: Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is coming out at a time where it is extremely relevant in society today with the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case. Oscar Grant’s personal …
Movie Review: The Bling Ring
Hermione Granger in da club!! The Bling Ring is about a group of teenage kleptomaniac so obsessed with seeing and being seen, that they decided …
Movie Review: 42
42 is perpetually on the cusp of greatness, but never quite gets there. More interested in deifying Jackie Robinson, 42 executes some really intense scenes …
Movie Review: Bernie
Bernie is a delicious reminder of how much writer/director Richard Linklater can elevate a film. Jack Black has a tendency to ratchet up his enthusiasm …