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Great Chemistry Can’t Save the Day in Poorly Scripted “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”
Read more: Great Chemistry Can’t Save the Day in Poorly Scripted “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”The Amazing Spider-Man 2, much like its predecessor, is a colorful comic book movie that stands apart from the recent slew of common hyper-realist superhero films, but not necessarily in a good way. In the rest of the Marvel Universe, superheroes are used as the gimmicked premise for which a logical, compelling, and otherwise realistic…
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“12 Years a Slave” Review
Read more: “12 Years a Slave” ReviewA black slave is called to the master’s house just before sunset. It has been a long day’s work. The slave, Platt, engineered a new means to transport logs via the swampy river rather than carrying them by land and he spent the day working with others to ferry logs down the river. The entire…
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“Muppets Most…” Disappointing
Read more: “Muppets Most…” DisappointingThere was a time I never thought I’d utter “Muppet” and “disappointment” in the same sentence. I’m remiss to say that day has finally come. Since last Saturday, I’ve been mired in a period of intense and savage reflection. In bearing witness to the most recent Muppet caper, I’ve been saddled with an unfamiliar sense…
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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Podcast Roundtable Discussion
Read more: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Podcast Roundtable DiscussionTim Combatti, Liam McCartney, and Corey Plante had a roundtable discussion on the latest movie installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Listen to their recorded podcast below! **SPOILER WARNING** If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might want to wait until after you have to give this thing a listen.…
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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Review
Read more: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” ReviewWhat do you do when everything you know, everything you believe in, starts to crumble? That’s what Captain America: The Winter Soldier addresses. It blurs the lines drawn by good and evil to a point where you can’t see which side is which. This movie does a great job of drawing in the audience with action,…
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A Song of Smoke, Mirrors, and Fire: “Pompeii” Movie Review
Read more: A Song of Smoke, Mirrors, and Fire: “Pompeii” Movie ReviewFrom the maker of the Resident Evil movie franchise comes a new movie about an old story, focused with a romantic twist. Pompeii will burn, and so will the hearts of two young lovers. Pompeii strives to tell the story of the remote, small Italian city located at the base of an active volcano right…
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Ric’s Review: “The LEGO Movie”
Read more: Ric’s Review: “The LEGO Movie”LEGO: It’s something that we all grew up playing with. It’s so pervasive, even across cultural and generational lines, that, according to various sources, there are somewhere from 62 to 86 LEGO pieces for every person on Earth. XKCD even claims that by 2019 there will be more LEGO minifigs than people on Earth. Recently,…
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“American Hustle” Review
Read more: “American Hustle” ReviewAmerican Hustle is a film built on cons: the idea that people are cons, often con themselves, and con others. That’s pretty much the basis of the whole movie. Each character? A con. How these people survive and compete within the same world is what makes this movie great, because they all do it by…
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What’s on Netflix: “Stuck In Love”
Read more: What’s on Netflix: “Stuck In Love”“A story about first loves, second chances, and the people we can’t live without.” Stuck in Love – a film that feels like the lovechild of Crazy, Stupid, Love and Smart People in that it deftly balances interlacing stories of different, equally brilliant family members whose passions negate their arrogance. Well, almost. You could definitely summarize Stuck…
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What’s on Netflix: “Drinking Buddies”
Read more: What’s on Netflix: “Drinking Buddies”Drinking Buddies – released just before the new year on Netflix – stars Jake Johnson (a.k.a., Nick Miller from New Girl) and Olivia Wilde as two close friends working at Revolution Brewery in Chicago. Full review and modest spoilers below. Kate (Olivia Wilde) does promotions, scheduling, event management, and everything in between for the brewery…
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