X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest (last?) of the First Class reboot of the X-Men franchise and while it has its moments it never really excels above being average superhero fare.
Read more "Film Review: X-Men: Apocalypse"Serena doesn’t work on almost any level, as the filmmakers let down their stars and an interesting source material.
Read more "Film Review: Serena"Don’t get me wrong, I love The Hunger Games series. However, I equally hate books being broken down into multiple movies. So as much as it pains me to say it, it comes as little surprise that on its own, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 just doesn’t get the job done.
Read more "Film Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1"Bryan Singer returns to the director’s chair of the X-Men franchise and Days of Future Past is right there with First Class and X2 in quality; very, very good.
Read more "Film Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past"One quarter down so far this year, three to go. Here’s our list of what is peaking our excitement in the next few months.
Read more "Looking Ahead to 2014: Second Quarter (April – June)"American Hustle has a lot of great things going for it, but David O. Russell’s hesitance to just do his own thing keeps the film from reaching its utmost potential.
Read more "Dissecting American Hustle"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire saves the franchise from being an outright atrocity, it’s even a very good film at times, but I fear the source material is going to keep the series from greatness.
Read more "Film Review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"With only a couple of months left on the 2013 film calendar it has become increasingly clear that this has been a great year for women in film. Sure, it would be great if we had more big budget fare starring women, but the opportunities in smaller films are becoming more plentiful and taken full advantage of.
Read more "2013: A Great Year For Women In Film"With the end of the year heading this way, there’s only so much time to cram in all forms of entertainment from this year before it’s too late (if you’re writing an end of post, that is). With that said, there are still plenty of new releases heading this way competing for your attention.
Read more "Looking Ahead To 2013: Quarter 4 (October – December)"I’m not going to do my typical breakdown for this trailer because I did one for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire teaser trailer when it was released and a lot of the footage is the same, but there is definitely enough new stuff in this original trailer to make it worthy of being shown off. […]
Read more "The Breakdown: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Official Trailer"The first trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was released earlier this week, and though it doesn’t actually show a lot of what the whole film will contain, it shows enough to tide us over until the next trailer comes along.
Read more "The Breakdown: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Teaser Trailer"Silver Linings Playbook is an interesting spin on the romantic comedy that keeps its feet firmly grounded before giving into some of that genre’s conventions in the final act.
Read more "Film Review: Silver Linings Playbook"Alright people, it’s almost the end of the year – which means some big releases are coming out. Some of the biggest albums, movies, and video games are slatted for release, making for one incredible last quarter in 2012. Enough of this, let’s get to our selections.
Read more "Looking Ahead to 2012 – Quarter 4 (October – December)"Neighbors can be scary people. The neighbors I have to pass everyday to get to the stairs leave their door partially open, and I am just expecting them to come bursting through one day and attack me. Ok maybe not, but their little girl sure does creep up out of nowhere more often than I’d […]
Read more "Film Review: House At The End Of The Street"For those of you not keeping track we are about to enter the second half of the year, full of just as many exciting things as the first half. So far some entries have disappointed, some have surprised, and some have lived up to and surpassed expectations so far, so lets keep our fingers crossed […]
Read more "Looking Ahead to 2012: 3rd Quarter (July – September)"The Hunger Games is among the year’s most anticipated films, but I have to say I thought it was mostly awful from start to finish.
Read more "Film Review: The Hunger Games"A child crawls out of the forest, looking for help that will never come. Instead he is skewered and beaten to death. Because he didn’t have the conch. Yep, that’s how Lord of the Flies worked. Ok, so maybe not, but this was still a rather gruesome thing to read even as a high schooler. […]
Read more "Film Review: The Hunger Games"Like Crazy is a very well made and acted romance that is a narrative mess and could have used a script instead of just an outline to frame the film around.
Read more "Film Review: Like Crazy"Sometime within the last year my sister bought the three books that make up this trilogy. Starting with book 1, The Hunger Games hooked me right away, and I was already tearing up 20 or so pages in because of how quickly I had attached myself to the characters. It is an addictive read, to […]
Read more "The Breakdown: The Hunger Games Trailer"The thing about romantic comedies is that they’re the safer bet when it comes to love stories. On Valentine’s Day the sappiest girl is not going to put in something that ends tragically, they are going to put in something where it is pretty much a guarantee that the two will end up together; the […]
Read more "Film Review: Like Crazy"X-Men: First Class is a great comic book film that is anchored by a fantastic cast and resets the X-Men universe in an era ripe for potential future films. The film opens up right where the franchise did, with Erik Lehnsherr being separated from his family at a Nazi concentration camp and ripping a fence […]
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