The new Jane Campion film is a period love story where the two lovers are destined to never be together and while it can be a bit slow and overly dramatic at times the three main actors are in top form and are worth the price of admission. Following the love affair of Fanny Brawne […]
Read more "Review: Bright Star"Assassination of a High School President has gone through a long process to get to the masses, a Sundance 08 film that received a decent amount of praise and deemed marketable has finally hit DVD almost two years later and I don’t know why it took so long. The film follows a sophomore student, Bobby […]
Read more "Review: Assassination of a High School President"This addition to director Roland Emmerich’s ode to destruction and the end of the world is fun if you switch off your brain and stare at the pretty pictures, but don’t expect anything of substance. 2012 takes its inspiration from the belief that the world will come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, which […]
Read more "Now Playing Review – 2012"Clash of the Titans Trailer – Yay violence, mythology, creatures and CGI. Check it out here. Date Night Trailer – Two of TV’s best comedians finally come together for this film. Should be great. Check out Tina Fey and Steve Carell here. Green Zone Trailer – Matt Damon doing what he does best. Check it […]
Read more "Suggestion Box (Nov. 9 – 16)"Richard Curtis’ silly, random, and plot-less ode to rock n’ roll, comedy easily overcomes any of its own short comings by having a knock out cast and a number of good laughs along the way. Back in the sixties when British rock was at an all time high, the British government didn’t allow the music […]
Read more "Review: Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked)"Roland Emmerich’s latest is a good fun premise and starts off as an entertaining little disaster movie quickly dives into head scratching plot holes and absurdity that doesn’t make sense at any turn. (Spoilers throughout, sorry they must be discussed) The plot of the film revolves around the supposed end of the world predicted in […]
Read more "Review: 2012"Anne Fontaine enlists Audrey Tautou to star in this solid, if run of the mill, biopic that doesn’t do a whole lot that is interesting or different but has great performances from all three of its leads and is a quite remarkable story surrounding the rise of Coco Chanel. Starting off as a singer at […]
Read more "Review: Coco Before Chanel"Paranormal Activity may not be the scariest movie ever, but it will haunt you long after the final scene ends (and in large part because of it). In hopes of figuring out what has been going bump in the night, Micah (Micah Sloat) decides to use a video camera to catch these random occurrences, which […]
Read more "Now Playing Review – Paranormal Activity"Mad Men 3.12 “Shut the Door, Have a Seat” If you didn’t watch Mad Men’s third season or haven’t jumped on the show yet, you are missing out on some of the best television of the decade. (Spoilers Throughout) This season of Mad Men has been described as slow, boring, character driven and even mediocre […]
Read more "Review: Mad Men – “Shut the Door, Have a Seat”"An Education is one of those little treasures of a film that sneaks up on you in not only the quality of the overall film but by the incredible turn by its star Carey Mulligan. Jenny is a seventeen year old school girl in 1960’s England and is set on getting into Oxford for seemingly […]
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