When I was in high school, my preferred method of learning history was through political cartoons. This isn’t just because I’m a lifelong fan of comics in any form, but it is al... Read more
Doubtlessly you’ve heard that there are pirates who capture boats off the coast of Somalia who hold the crew of those ships ransom. Perhaps you’ve even cracked a few pirate-rela... Read more
Writing a review for Before Midnight is somewhat futile. If you’ve seen the prior two films chronicling the relationship between Jesse and Celine, 1995’s Before Sunrise and 2004... Read more
I thought I saw an awful found footage Frankenstein movie this year when I saw The Frankenstein Theory six weeks ago. Now I can say I’ve seen worse, Frankenstein’s Army. In the... Read more
One of the my favorite things about watching international films is seeing how foreign directors handle plots that are similar to the plots of other American films. In Northwest, director M... Read more
Even if you “know nothing of wine” (like Ned “Kingsley” Zissou in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), you probably know that the Bordeaux region of France produces w... Read more
Man, the summer of one’s eighteenth year is usually great, isn’t it? You’re graduated from high school, you have a few weeks before the next stage of your life begins... Read more
Before I get into my review, I credit director/co-writer Claudio Giovannesi with making a film that probably couldn’t be made in the United States at this moment because of public worr... Read more
Amy (Emma Roberts) is an aspiring “voice of a generation” poet who is graduating from Syracuse University and moving back in with her parents in the Syracuse area. Though she ha... Read more
With his first film, young writer/director Matt Creed tackles a very life-altering subject, cancer treatments, except instead of focusing on the common late-life cancer patients Lily looks a... Read more
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