Star Wars: The Force Awakens–Thoughts to Consider (SPOILERS)
Since a large chunk of the population has donated a portion of their disposable income to a movie theater in order to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it’s time to talk about it.
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The Giant King: Who Tells You How To Live?
In 2012,?Prapas Cholsaranont directed a 3D animation movie called Yak the Giant King?based on the Thai animation film?Ramayana about two robots on opposite sides of a conflict which lacks any purpose that they can remember. Now, American audiences can enjoy the film’s lush animation with English dialogue thanks to Lionsgate ‘repurposing’ the film with English-speaking…
Pan: What’s In A Name?
Peter Pan (Levi Miller) is the kid who wants to find his mother before he’s the boy who never grew up. That is, before he never grew up, he was just an orphaned, little boy missing his mother. Imprisoned in an orphanage with the ominously hoarding Mother Barnabas (Kathy Burke), Peter leads a mini-rebellion and…
Heist: The Art of Misdirection
Robert De Niro. Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Kate Bosworth. Morris Chestnut. Gina Carano. Dave Bautista. The cast list reads like a who’s who of good-but-not-great films that have littered the landscape of early spring and late summer. All of them have been in?something?spectacular, but bringing them all together echoes with the late-breaking career of Morgan Freeman…
why Star Wars is more than a movie
“it’s just a movie” says someone of Star Wars who?just don’t know the thing is: no. it’ s not just a movie besides being, perhaps, *the* movie,?in the blockbuster, spinoff-spawning, critic-and-fan favorite, industry uber-underwriting, entertainment?behemoth sense, it’s also a cross-generational shared story about redemption and?sacrifice and the cosmic struggle between light and dark and the…
Star Wars The Force Awakens: A Spoiler Filled Look At The Newcomers to The Franchise
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was everything a fan of the original films would hope to find. JJ Abrams captured the wonder and the magic of the original trilogy with a 2015 visual EFX that made the film just pop out of the screen. The scene transitions were seamless with great cinematography that carried the…
ScreamFish: Black Christmas
Dear Santa, Can you please bring us more slashers as good as Black Christmas (no, not the shoddy remake from 2006; we’re referring to the 1974 original)?? Because someone or something needs to remind Hollywood that horror films are allowed to have talented legitimate actors, compelling scripts and genuinely effective–yet relatively gore-less–scares. Sure, it’s just…
Star Wars VII – The Force Awakens: Our History Matters *SPOILERS*
I don’t want to disappoint anyone so please note that “SPOILER” is clearly in the title. I not-so-fondly remember the Friday morning when the first Avengers film came out. I was minding my own business – wearing a Captain America shirt – in Target, when I was approached… and BAM! “Man, isn’t it crazy that…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (NON-SPOILER): Visiting a Good Friend Once Again
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a grand return to the galaxy far, far away that we all have come to love over the last 37 years.
Son of Saul: A Kind Of Hope
We are sometimes amazed at the depth of horror that marks the Shoah. Son of Saul shows us again the inhumanity of the Holocaust in a very personal way. The film from Hungarian director L?szl? Nemes is already garnering Best Foreign Language Film honors from critics groups…