Movie Review: Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures boasts a fantastic story. While I enjoy a great story about overcoming the odds playing a sport, Hidden Figures posits a more realistic, …
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Movie Review: Allegiant – Part 1
Allegiant will get my worst word to describe it: indifference. The movie so screwed up its logic, mythology, and character development that anything that happens …
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: Get On Up
It would seem the biggest risk for Get On Up should be finding someone who can capture the magnetism and style of James Brown, the …
Movie Review: Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer takes the concept of a model train to its craziest extreme. This bonkers dystopic future film by director Joon-ho Bong relentlessly hurtles forward despite …
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: Smashed
Smashed, like its protagonist, has two sides. One is a very realistic depiction of how hard it for someone to achieve sobriety, the other is …