Movie Review: Upstream Color
Writer/Director/Producer/Editor/(Botanist?) Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is almost the opposite of his Sundance breakthrough, Primer. The latter is a verbose overly plot driven low-budget thriller about …
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Movie Review: Pitch Perfect
The Deltones. The Sig O’s. Purple Haze. These are some of the a cappella groups at my Alma Mater. Like Pitch Perfect shows the audience, …
Movie Review: Amour
Love means never having to say you’re sorry. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Love is …
Movie Review: Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow was riding high in 2010. She just became the first female director to win Best Director at the Oscars over her ex-husband, and …
Movie Review: Life of Pi
What audiences were waiting for: the cross between Cast Away, Contact, and Titanic. Life of Pi is a tremendous motion picture. It is equal parts …
Movie Review: Children of Men
Dystopian futures have been a staple in the movies since Metropolis in 1927. They can range from cutting edge (The Matrix) to ridiculous (Bill and …
Movie Review: Looper
Looper is a wonderful motion picture. Writer/Director Rian Johnson, much like Christopher Nolan’s Inception, has been penning this script for a long time. The time …
Movie Review: The Raid: Redemption
The Raid: Redemption kicks ass. No broken bones about it. It is a wall-to-wall masterpiece of fight sequences. Keeping non-fight sequences to a minimum, writer/director …
Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
The 80s have certainly been given primary treatment in 2012. Many movies have been resurrected from the past for a new generation of kids. There …
Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin must have read Huckleberry Finn before he directed Beasts of the Southern Wild. The setups are almost identical: they feature a younger protagonist, …