Posts tagged "movie reviews"
"The Great Gatsby": Movie Review

“The Great Gatsby”: Movie Review

Great book, good movie.

The Spectacle That is Oz the Great and Powerful

The Spectacle That is Oz the Great and Powerful

Mila Kunis is even hot in green-and it ain’t easy bein’ green.

Birth of a Nation: Before  Lincoln, There Was...This

Birth of a Nation: Before Lincoln, There Was…This

A look back at “Birth of a Nation,” one of the most controversial movies in film history.

Pass the Popcorn: The Dark Knight Rises

Pass the Popcorn: The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy has drawn to a close with “The Dark Knight Rises”. How does it fare next to 2008’s titanic “The Dark Knight”?

Pass The Popcorn: Ted

Pass The Popcorn: Ted

Seth Macfarlane’s “Ted” proves that the “Family Guy” creator can bring his talents to the big screen.

Pass the Popcorn: "The Woman in Black"

Pass the Popcorn: “The Woman in Black”

A small part of me feels sorry for Daniel Radcliffe (at least as sorry as I can be for someone who, at nearly three years my junior, has already made more money than I will ever see). After starring in the monolithic Harry Potter series for a whole decade, it’s hard to imagine he’ll ever be able to break free from that iconic role. So when trailers began appearing for the new film The Woman in Black, I think everyone’s […]

Pass The Popcorn: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

The first trailer for the “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” was released this week and it can be described in one word: EPIC. The film acts as a prequel to the J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and Peter Jackson returns as the director, producer, and co-writer. Guillermo del Toro also joins the team as one of the film’s co-writers, and it’ll definitely be interesting to see his take on this well-known fantasy story. The film was shot in […]

Pass The Popcorn: “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn”

As you’re probably already aware of, the latest Twilight movie, “Breaking Dawn: Part 1” was recently released in theaters. The fourth (and second to last) movie in the Twilight Saga tells the story of vampire, Edward Cullen, and his mortal fiancée, Bella Swan, finally tying the knot. Since I have this sort of OCD thing going where I can’t start a series without finishing it (so yes, I’m admitting that I’ve seen all the other Twilight movies…shut up), I went […]

Pass the Popcorn: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Call me old fashioned, but sometimes I think the modern day slasher formula has ruined the contemporary horror film. While some movie makers adhere to the Hitchcockian pillars of suspense and atmosphere, it seems far easier to scare by showing rather than implying. On one hand I can understand: dread, especially of the supernatural variety, can be so difficult to manufacture consistently. It’s far easier, and far more instantly gratifying, to scare the audience on the most basic of grounds: […]

Pass the Popcorn: Fright Night

Whatever happened to the Nosferatus of the world? Sometime between that 1921 masterpiece of gothic horror and today, vampires ceased to become cold blooded monsters and started to become the creepy fixation of adolescent girls (not to mention soccer moms) everywhere. The modern day vampire is brooding, sexy, and urbane, more interested in passionate affairs with young, bored women than with devouring the life blood of peasants. The gnarled, bird-like face created by F.W. Murnau has somehow transformed into the […]

Pass The Popcorn: “Final Destination 5”

A good critic is essentially a reductionist, distilling popular art and entertainment into its most basic components and highlighting which parts add to and which parts detract from the final product. It’s easy to take a movie like The Social Network and sing high praises for the hauntingly ambient soundtrack, the laser precise direction, and the compelling performances, just as it is easy to take a movie like Vampires Suck! and rake it over the coals for terrible writing and […]

Pass the Popcorn: “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest”

If you’re a regular reader of this site, you’re aware of my extreme excitement regarding the debut of “Beats, Rhymes & Life”, the Michael Rapaport-directed documentary about the lives and careers of rap legends A Tribe Called Quest. You’re probably also aware of the controversy regarding the film. The group members-Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Jarobi White and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, have not presented a united front on the film, and Q-Tip in particular has not been supportive, claiming that he’s cast […]