Written by Lily Davis. Meet the graduate; Benjamin Braddock. He’s 21 years old, fresh out of college and about to move back in with his parents to their middle class suburban nightmare. Ben, played by a young Dustin Hoffman, simply doesn’t have a clue what he wants to do now. Smothered by pressure from his …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. In the racing world, specifically that of Formula One racing, the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda is the stuff of legends. Their competitive battles began early in their careers, chasing one another as they progressed to be two of the best racers the world has ever seen. Their rivalry …
Written by Zac Platt. With only a few precious moments left with Dexter and Breaking Bad, the new offerings of this year’s Fall line-up have some pretty big shoes to fill. A few new series such as Blacklist and Almost Human have me intrigued, but if any show is going to fill the hole in …
Written by Matilda Mornane. In this fun, yet mostly predictable sequel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters will satisfy the minds of tweens everywhere. As the trend of fantasy films for kids and teenagers doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, Percy Jackson is just the latest to carry the adventure torch for the young everywhere. We …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. As we are routinely told by well-meaning parents and knowledgeable adults, high school is supposed to be the best days of our lives. For those of you who are normal teenagers like the rest of us, high school is anything but. Thankfully, the Silver Screen has always managed to perfectly capture …
Written by Cassandra Singh. Sarah Polley is mostly known as an actress. You may remember her from roles in Zac Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead and Vincenzo Natali’s Splice, but she proved that she was indeed a filmmaker to look out for when her screenplay for the critically acclaimed Away from Her (which she also …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. The Rest in Peace Department, or R.I.P.D., is the place where not only deceased police officers go to work, but also where interesting comic book adaptations go to die. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov, R.I.P.D. follows recently deceased Boston Cop Nick Walker (Ryan Reynolds), who is recruited into …
Those little blue people are back in this unfortunate sequel to a terrible children’s film. Yep, this is the type of film to make a grouch out of every poor adult – or person above the age of five – that has to sit through 105 minutes of smurf-tacularly bad filmmaking. The villainous Gargamel (Hank …
‘The Smurfs 2’ MOVIE REVIEW: Smurf-tacularly Bad Read More »
We open on our hero, battled and bloodied, making his way across a sun-scorched alien world. In his search for drinkable water, we see Riddick (Vin Diesel) snap his broken leg back into place, bolt a metal splint into bare flesh, and hide from a pack of hungry (alien) dogs in a stagnant pond, totally …
‘Riddick’ MOVIE REVIEW: Goofy, Over the Top… and Pure Fun Read More »
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Pedro Almodóvar is arguably one of the finest directors in the world. The Academy Award winner has provided cinema with melodramatic works of art with films like All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education and The Skin I Live In. Expectations are usually quite high for a writer-director of …
