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“Contagion” Infects America With Paranoia: Viral Marketing and Viral Diseases in the 21st Century
Read more: “Contagion” Infects America With Paranoia: Viral Marketing and Viral Diseases in the 21st CenturyWARNING: Read this contagious review at your own risk. And it contains plot spoilers. “The average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute. In between that we’re touching doorknobs, water fountains, and each other.” That’s easily the most recognizable piece of dialogue from the promotional footage for “Contagion”, a new global…
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Cowboys and Aliens Review
Read more: Cowboys and Aliens ReviewThere are films and there are movies. There are flicks, motion pictures, features, and what have you. Generally this distinction between film and movie is not one worth making, although I believe David Fincher does, but I’m not a good enough journalist to cite that. This distinction nevertheless applies if you want it to. You…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Review
Read more: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ReviewThe following review will appear in the September issue of Chronicles Magazine When Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was published in 1998, it gained the ire of many parents and religious thinkers who thought they detected occult and satanic undertones in its story. In some locations, it was banned from bookstores and libraries…
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Some brief and non-thunder-nor-lime-light-stealing thoughts on “Midnight in Paris”
Read more: Some brief and non-thunder-nor-lime-light-stealing thoughts on “Midnight in Paris”Woody Allen’s forty-sixth film, “Midnight in Paris” is bottled charm. Allen has expertly captured the essence of Paris, the beauty, the very feeling of what I imagine Paris evokes, and played it back for audiences everywhere. “Midnight” works on a slightly silly premise, but is all the more endearing for it. The film is worth…
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“Midnight In Paris” Review
Read more: “Midnight In Paris” ReviewWe’ve all talked about it, hell, a number of us have even taken some of those annoying Facebook quizzes giving us the answers: would life be better if we lived some time in the past? We’ve all heard people say that they should have been born in Ancient Greece, the 1800’s, or even the…
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“The Tree of Life” Review
Read more: “The Tree of Life” ReviewFilmmaker Terrence Malick has achieved a stellar reputation despite having a limited body of work. His work is highly stylized, dreamlike, and utilizes heavy symbols to contemplate even heavier questions regarding life, death, existence, and suffering. His most recent film after a six-year hiatus is “The Tree of Life”, a flick that tackles such…
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“Green Lantern” Review
Read more: “Green Lantern” ReviewWhen I first started seeing promotional footage for the new “Green Lantern” movie, I’ll admit I wasn’t too excited. It seemed a little hokey, and as insolently charming as Ryan Reynolds is, he just didn’t strike me as a good fit for the super hero mold. But as later trailers were revealed, it actually…
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Super 8 Review
Read more: Super 8 ReviewJ.J. Abrams has made a career out of making excellent films and television shows with memorable characters and complex plots that masquerade as science fiction stories. No that’s not right, they’re sci-fi narratives masquerading as character driven dramas. Whatever they are there is one thing that an Abrams production always has, emotional weight. Many modern…
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