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Films On HBO: “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” (2015)
Read more: Films On HBO: “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” (2015)Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) feels like the mildly cynical indie alternative to the already indie-feeling The Fault in Our Stars (2014), a film which, if you remember I loved, and I loved quite a bit. Fault came out in June 2014 and Earl only a few months later in January of 2015.…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Read more: Star Wars: The Force AwakensSpoilers The hinge on which the Hero’s Journey turns is the Crossing the Threshold. The moment the hero makes the choice to answer the call to adventure. This is dramatically compelling. A character, having already refused this call due to fear or some other impediment, actively chooses to engage danger and adventure. This choice is…
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”: Flight and Empathy
Read more: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”: Flight and EmpathyHere’s the one with all the spoilers! Because you love me, you’ve hopefully read my generalized, vaguely non-spoiler review of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, in which I spoke lightly about the movie’s flaws and even lighter about the film’s greater triumphs. But here, we bring you the real deal. There are two things at battle…
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“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is a Force to Be Reckoned With (Spoiler-Free Edition)
Read more: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is a Force to Be Reckoned With (Spoiler-Free Edition)Pun intended. What I really hate is when critics that positively review a space sci-fi story call it “stellar”. Isn’t that just terrible? The funny thing about this review was that I wrote a large chunk of it the other day, well before the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was based off…
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“American Ultra” Review
Read more: “American Ultra” ReviewAmerican Ultra is a hyperviolent and marijuana infused action film written by the stoner (assumed) nerd who brought us Chronicle and directed by the dude who did Project X. You know, that terrible, soulless party movie. This entire movie basically takes place in an alternate universe of NBC’s Chuck around the time season 2 kicks off. American…
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Netflix Review: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”
Read more: Netflix Review: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby”It takes a lot for me to be surprised by the way a movie is made. I’m not talking about jump-scares or even the horror genre; I’m talking about the process of filmmaking and how even with a budget differences in the millions, whether you’re on the set of the third Avengers movie or the latest…
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“Ex Machina” Review: Unsettling Techno-Cautionary Tale
Read more: “Ex Machina” Review: Unsettling Techno-Cautionary TaleImagine if a brilliant wunderkind founded Google at the age 13. It’d make Mark Zuckerberg look like a chump. Now imagine it’s a near future, in a time where this kid is now at a nice medium age where day drinking is on the cusp of being cool, just about to fade out of style…
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“The Avengers: Age of Ultron”: A Delightfully Familiar Novelty
Read more: “The Avengers: Age of Ultron”: A Delightfully Familiar Novelty“Ultron” is the kind of movie that needs no introduction. Even if you’re a lazy MCU fan like myself and skipped “Thor: The Dark World,” you know what’s going on here, and you know how the story will end. Though the unity of the Avengers is tested by Ultron and the Scarlet Witch’s mind games…
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Furious Seven Review
Read more: Furious Seven ReviewThere are a lot of things I thought a Fast and Furious film could achieve. Making an audience weep was not one of them. As if to prove me wrong, James Wan delivered Furious Seven, the most ridiculous and most heartfelt entry in the series to date. The Toretto Family returns to action when Deckard…
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Netflix: “One Day” Review
Read more: Netflix: “One Day” ReviewMessing with time is a funky thing. The Doctor would have us believe it’s all wibbly wobbly and very dangerous, yet storytellers have been playing with it for as long as stories have been around. For those that craft the stories, it’s one thing to span decades in a novel to convey the course of…
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