And now the story of a band of college-age film critics without an audience, and the one college-age film critic who had no choice but to give them one, however limited. It’s Rooster Illusion. Arrested Development, Season 4 (2013) In 2003, America was finally introduced to a sit-com about a wealthy dysfunctional white American family,…
It’s Memorial Day Weekend! A time to forget why we have Monday off and go to the movies to watch Star Trek Into Darkness and Fast and the Furious 6. What does that opening imply? Perhaps that I’m looking back into cinematic history to honor our troops. Or maybe I’m just being obnoxious, and yes,…
Here at Rooster Illusion we try not be redundant. As such, we only run multiple reviews of the same movie if opinions vary drastically. For example, both the Tuesday Zone and I have critiqued Zero Dark Thirty, because we disagreed on a few major points. I had only once felt the inclination to re-review a…
Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Some people have a real problem watching adaptations without having first read the source material. By and large, this doesn’t bother me. I do, however, have difficulty watching movies based on Shakespeare if I haven’t read the play. It’s not so bad with his comedies, because…
Hollywood is full of charming men; it always has been, and hopefully it always will be. You’ve got Cary Grant, Gregory Peck, George Clooney, Hugh Jackman, Paul Newman, Nathan Fillion, Will Smith, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jean Dujardin, Ewan McGregor, Clark Gable, everyone who’s ever played James Bond… LL Cool J, I guess. The list goes on!…
The summer is almost upon us! Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Wolverine, Man of Steel, Pacific Rim, Monsters University, Fast & Furious 6, The Great Gatsby, World War Z, The Hangover Part III, After Earth, Despicable Me 2, This Is the End, Now You See Me, The Bling Ring, Kick-Ass 2, The…
Every so often, Hollywood produces a movie that is unreasonably cruel to teenage girls everywhere. What do I mean by that? Let’s consider Terrence Malick’s next movie, yet untitled, starring Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, and Christian Bale. They don’t come prettier than that. People are going to see that movie expecting to bask in an…
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