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Movie Review: “Snowpiercer” Shocks and Awes
Read more: Movie Review: “Snowpiercer” Shocks and AwesI grow restless with my media. It’s a thing that I do. As a teenager I would devour my books, video games, and movies with reckless abandon — especially my RPG’s and JRPG’s. Final Fantasy VII’s play clock maxes out at 59:99, so lord knows how many hours beyond that I plunged before saving up a…
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 Review
Read more: How To Train Your Dragon 2 ReviewHow to Train Your Dragon was released in 2010 and it blew me away so much that it easily topped my favorites list of the year. Inception was released in 2010. This is a roundabout way to illustrate how excited I was for How to Train Your Dragon 2. Unfortunately hype can set you up for…
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“Edge of Tomorrow” Review
Read more: “Edge of Tomorrow” ReviewIt is easy to deride the state of the modern blockbuster. Sometimes it feels like we have been overwhelmed by Transformers, Marvel and their clones, remakes, reboots, reimaginings, adaptations, and recreations. Each of these dependent on surface level attachment and understanding, or nostalgia, rather than building a relationship from scratch. Why would a film need…
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Best of Netflix: “Mud” (2012)
Read more: Best of Netflix: “Mud” (2012)Some of the best films out there are the ones you just can’t watch casually. They are almost a task to watch because of their gravity, and when you reach the end, they weigh heavily on you. This is because their emotional impact, even if felt immediately, is often hard to comprehend in simpler terms. Think Schindler’s List or…
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Critics Be Damned: In Defense of “The Fault in Our Stars”
Read more: Critics Be Damned: In Defense of “The Fault in Our Stars”Note: This article contains spoilers for the film The Fault in Our Stars, so read only if you don’t mind and/or have already seen it. One of the annoying things about writing movie reviews is the tacit requirement that you’re not allowed to give away any spoilers. You’re supposed to either convince people to see…
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“The Fault in Our Stars” Movie Review
Read more: “The Fault in Our Stars” Movie ReviewSomewhere along the winding road of my early twenties, I found a YouTube channel called vlogbrothers. It’s description: “Raising nerdy to the power of awesome.” Using vlogbrothers, two exceptionally nerdy brothers, Hank and John, post nerdy selfie video rants on topics ranging from “Why are American Health Care Costs So High?” to the truth behind the allegedly and hilariously…
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“August: Osage County” Movie Review
Read more: “August: Osage County” Movie ReviewFor some reason the only time I even heard of August: Osage County was when awards season was upon us. Maybe I don’t watch enough TV and missed the trailers. Maybe it’s just too far out of the normal nerdy range of my purview. I sort of knew it had existed, but much like Kerri‘s mother,…
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Troy’s Top 10 Fictional Fast Food Restaurants
Read more: Troy’s Top 10 Fictional Fast Food RestaurantsWhen a movie or television show wants to set one of their scenes at a fast food restaurant they have two choices: arrange a shoot with an established fast food chain and possibly work out some product placement advertising, or create their own, fictional fast food joint. The problem with the first option is that a…
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Snippets Podcast: Corey and Liam Tackle “Godzilla”
Read more: Snippets Podcast: Corey and Liam Tackle “Godzilla”Corey and Liam carved out some time recently to chat over all the best aspects of the smashing box office success by Gareth Edwards: Godzilla. If you’d like to, take a look at Corey’s original review here. The film chronicles the big screen return of the titular beast in a story that focuses on the…
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“A Million Ways to Die in the West” Movie Review
Read more: “A Million Ways to Die in the West” Movie ReviewA Million Ways to Die in the West is Seth MacFarlane‘s next step in feature-length films after the moderate success of Ted. MacFarlane is most widely known for his work as the principle mind behind Family Guy, and though he does primarily voice-acting, A Million Ways marks his first attempt at being the lead actor…
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