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. [...]
Glamour, elegance and class are all elements that you can expect in any James Bond flick. While Daniel Craig isn’t in this film, the Hollywood talents of A-listers Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp light up the screen in this year’s action flick, The Tourist. While on his sabbatical, math teacher Frank, played by Depp, is [...]
At first glance, you think it’s your typical teen-targeted road trip movie that is full of crazy acts, drugs, slapstick “comedy” and a plot that is unbelievable from the start. However, the opening scene is an indication that this is far from your typical movie. Due Date, starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr., covers their epic [...]
Ah, vampires, we come back to you once again. What is it about the recent modern obsession that’s made them such a big topic? “Twilight” certainly opened the tween floodgate, but it feels recently like a lot of vampire films have been created to oppose it. Smart tactic, of course, as the hatred of “Twilight” [...]
Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, has the curious distinction of being a really good actor for a professional wrestler, but still … well … a professional wrestler trying to act. He can hold up as an action hero, but its easy to notice where he came from. When I saw “Faster” in Redbox and his face [...]
