Movie Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Fire fire everywhere, and no water to put it out. The pop culture zeitgeist has been swirling around The Hunger Games: Catching Fire for months …
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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 …
Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World
Thor doesn’t deserve a franchise: Loki does. Thor: The Dark World is a stop-gap Marvel film padding future superhero adventures with some post-credits action and …
Movie Review: Ender’s Game
It’s tough for me to write about Ender’s Game, since it holds such a strong place in my heart. As a kid, it was the …
Movie Review: Blue Is the Warmest Color
First love is a ubiquitous experience. During the honeymoon phase, the feelings it generates create a high that is impossible to maintain. As the real …
Movie Review: Gravity
The vastness of space is something movies will talk about, but usually struggle to show, the best examples being Star Wars or 2001: A Space …
Movie Review: All Is Lost
Tom Hanks and a tiger have done it, so why not Robert Redford? All Is Lost is about a man lost in the Indian Ocean …
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: About Time
It’s not a time travel story of love. It is a love story with time travel. With all the romantic clichés and plot devices in …