Baddie: Mommy issues, as per usual. Lesson: He told you not to go out. As you’ll recall, I tackled the remake of this film, starring one Elijah Wood, a few weeks ago. I haven’t reviewed an honest to goodness slasher movie in a while, so I thought I’d also give the original a go. I’m also usually…
Who doesn’t like sad, slow-moving character studies with dark, but morally-grounded undertones? The answer I’m looking for is, “Nobody.” Nobody doesn’t like them. I’d apologize for the double negative, but there’s so much negativity in these movies that it feels appropriate. 2014, though it lacked in several areas, had a few such films, namely Locke,…
The thing to keep in mind before going in to Trainwreck is that, at it’s core, it is still a romantic comedy. In fact, that might be the key to its success. The moments that have been codified as the modern romantic comedy (or chick flick, if you’re into gendering movies/ kind of suck), the meet-cute, the…
Documentaries! Who doesn’t love them? In general, I don’t. It takes a lot to get me to sit down and watch a documentary of my own volition… usually the involvement of Werner Herzog, but sometimes extenuating circumstances force your participation and you simply have no choice. With school currently out of the way and the…
I’m a huge fan of Pixar and the studio’s latest creation, Inside Out, certainly did not disappoint. For a movie about emotions and how and why we feel things, Inside Out certainly contains, well, lots of emotion. I feel slightly cliche in saying this, but a movie whose main characters embody things like happiness and sadness,…
The major complaint leveled at the current crop of Marvel movies (aside from a tendency towards shallow villains and the overstuffing of movies with set-ups for other movies), is about the large, city smashing, collateral damaging stakes of the exploits. While Daredevil and Age of Ultron addressed that first issue, Ant-Man feels like a movie made squarely to challenge that last…
In the past few years I have made no secret of the fact that I harbor a deep, undying, unabashed love and reverence for old monster movies, particularly those produced by Universal Studios in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and anything starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and/or Peter Cushing. As such, I shan’t repeat myself…
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