Movie Review: The Past
Asghar Farhadi is one of the best directors out there that can inject suspense out of an everyday problem that people have to deal with. …
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Movie Review: Her
Her will be remembered as Spike Jonze’s masterpiece. Jonze doesn’t work often in movies, but when he does, they are usually something interesting (Where the …
Movie Review: How to Survive a Plague
AIDS was a plague for the gay community. When you are infected with a plague, you become ostracized, victimized, and isolated by the general populous …
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: 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: 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: 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 …
Movie Review: Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is Pixar’s piece de resistance. Coupling the originality of the first Toy Story with the pathos of the second one, Toy Story …
Movie Review: Les Miserables
Les Miserables is less a musical and more of an opera. Most of the lines are sung, and there are no breaks for big dance …
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 …