REVIEW: Terminator Salvation [2009]
“So that’s what death tastes like” I have never seen a McG film before. I avoided the Charlie’s Angels movies and thought We Are Marshall looked pretty mediocre—besides being a based on true events...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Smurfs [2011]
“Is my thinking interrupting your vile hacking?” I think Grouchy says it best during goodbyes with his human counterparts in The Smurfs. “I hated it so much … less than expected.” He then caps it off...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Beaver [2011]
“Look at you—stone-drunk and flattened by a television” We hear it all the time and we know it’s a lie: Everything will be okay. No it won’t; it’s impossible and anyone who thinks different is deluded....
View ArticleVIFF11 REVIEW: Like Crazy [2011]
“To you who make me see things I could never see alone” How much is one summer of euphoric love worth? To Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones)—the world. Courted through a shy, sweet process...
View ArticleREVIEW: Star Trek Into Darkness [2013]
“Bones, get that thing off my face” Director J.J. Abrams’ reboot of Star Trek four years ago was a refreshing, original take on a world possessed by countless offshoots because screenwriters Roberto...
View ArticleREVIEW: Odd Thomas [2014]
“I may see dead people, but by God I do something about it” It’s August 14th in Pico Mundo, CA and the world is about to end. Well, not the world per se, but the community young Odd Thomas (Anton...
View ArticleREVIEW: Only Lovers Left Alive [2014]
“A diamond emitting the music of a giant gong” In the age of Twilight its good to know an auteur like Jim Jarmusch can render contemporary vampires as the romantic ideals of immortality, wisdom, and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Experimenter [2015]
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards” As Peter Sarsgaard‘s Stanley Milgram posthumously states at the conclusion of Michael Almereyda‘s Experimenter, his work compiled...
View ArticleREVIEW: Green Room [2016]
“The energy doesn’t last” It’s official: Jeremy Saulnier‘s Blue Ruin was no fluke. That pulse-pounding thriller wowed audiences a couple years ago with good reason and his follow-up Green Room only...
View ArticleREVIEW: Star Trek Beyond [2016]
“The poetry of fate” After an auspicious reboot that erased every movie in the series before it (save the travels of Leonard Nimoy‘s Spock) while ensuring each one still remained in canon, J.J. Abrams...
View ArticleREVIEW: Porto [2017]
“You never know if what you’ve lost is better than what you’ve gained” An American ex-pat reminisces about lost love, his walk through the Portuguese town of Porto leading to the café window of an old...
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