Storytelling 101: Before you can get anywhere, you need at least one compelling character. Audience relatability helps, but a good writer can keep an audience invested in even a reprehensible character. In film, if you’ve decided not to make your main protagonist in any way a likable human, then the writer, director, and actor all…
As we found out in my co-review of a Pokemon episode that I wrote along with The Tuesday Zone’s Alex Gladwin, I am a huge fan of Pokemon. Since I happened to be in Japan when a new Pokemon movie was coming out in theaters, it was clear to me that I had to be…
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,…
Rooster Illusion 