If I told you I went into this movie with high hopes and good expectations, I would be a liar. I saw Danny McBride, “from the people who brought you Pineapple Express,” and, well, literally anything about this movie that gave me a strong impression how it was going to go: terribly. And in that [...]
If you’re a nerd and looking for a female celebrity to empathize with, you don’t get a much better option than Felicia Day. She’s cute, awkward and generally puts on an accurate performance. Anyone who’s seen “The Guild,” her online series, can attest to that. She has a good reputation in the community and a [...]
Horror is hard. Anyone can throw monsters up on the screen real quick and get a jump scare, but that’s not a real horror movie. Real horror takes tension, timing and proper use of imagery to evoke fear. In short, real horror takes atmosphere. “Vanishing on 7th Street” pleasantly surprised this week by having atmosphere [...]
You know who’s awesome? If you answered David Bowie, Tim Curry, Nathan Fillion, or Alyson Hannigan, technically, yes. If you answered Chuck Norris, 2009 wants their Internet jokes back. Either way, the correct answer in this case was Sean Bean. Bean’s been in slews of movies, but ‘90’s veterans will remember him as Alec Trevelyan [...]
Some people are just too easy to hate. Hitler springs to mind, but for the modern American, Nazis are overdone and irrelevant. So who can the country turn to? The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., of course. Their lovely activities include protesting soldiers’ funerals, explaining at length why everything is evil and god hates [...]
If you gave a rabid monkey LSD, a pocket knife and a cell phone camera, if it even managed to hit record, nothing produced would be worth one iota of credit. It would be a drug-fueled, talentless, painfully out-of-focus film capable of inflicting mental damage on its viewers just by watching it. In that, it [...]
“Thor” was incredibly stupid. It made no sense, it was poorly acted, the continuity was awful and it was just flat-out stupid. Most would disagree, admittedly, but the purpose of a review is not to agree with everybody. Normally, these reviews swing over movies this popular, but it was just so bad that it had [...]
When a movie is good, the feeling it prompts always matches at least that much. A good funny movie makes you laugh, a romantic movie makes you feel sappy, an action movies gets your blood pumping. Just the same, bad movies prompt bad feelings. Sure, there are the exceptions that are so bad they’re funny, [...]
For the first review of the semester, this can’t just be any movie. This has to be a movie so ridiculous that it almost hurts. A movie so over-the-top that it makes you feel insane, and you like it. A movie involving ninjas, cowboys, and a traveling circus—not as gimmicks, but as the main cast. [...]
As college students, we all know the ins and outs of borrowing, renting or otherwise buying on credit. The 2010 action flick “Repo Men,” starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, approaches the issue of leasing in the future. However, the movie does not deal with leasing apartments or cars, but organs in order to live. [...]