Movie Review: Jurassic World
Dinosaurs tap into that part of your child that never left. They trigger giddy guttural reactions with each T-Rex, raptor, or now, Indominus Rex that shows …
Sci-Fi
Movie Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a dare for a director. Try to make a 2 hour car chase film with downtime under 10 minutes, …
Movie Review: Ex Machina
Artificial Intelligence is insanely fun for moviemakers to study, and actors to attempt. Playing a not-quite person imitating humanity and studying societal implications is too …
Movie Review: Insurgent
The biggest critics of Divergent, the prequel to Insurgent, accused the movie of being Hunger Games lite. I can’t disagree with them: most of Tris’s …
Movie Review: Jupiter Ascending
If halfway through making a film you realize the movie is kinda crappy, might as well make it as bonkers as possible right? Jupiter Ascending …
Movie Review: Predestination
I know it is early, but Predestination is a strong contender to end up on my Top 10 list for the best films of 2015. …
Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
It is unfair that the Hunger Games gets lumped in with Twilight, Divergent, and other wanna-be franchises because it has similar elements. Suzanne Collins’s novel …
Movie Review: Interstellar
Of the films this fall, the one people seem to be most excited about is Interstellar. Not a big surprise: Christopher Nolan has ripped the …
Movie Review: The Maze Runner
2/3 of the way through, The Maze Runner was beyond impressive. In fact, it was very near the peak of the young adult dystopia films: …
Movie Review: The Giver
I feel bad for The Giver. Being released in the immediate success of movies like The Hunger Games or Divergent reeks of a cash grab. However, …