Film Reviews
The Giver
The Community is a world of control. It is a place where the weather doesn’t change because of climate control. It is a land where pain doesn’t arrive because of medical control. It is an area where heartbreak doesn’t exist because of emotional control. It is also...
Step Up: All In
“Does it always have to end up in a big giant dance battle?” So asks Moose (Adam G. Sevani), sick the goofy but passionate sidekick in Step Up: All In (the fifth entry in this long-running series). In movies like this, the answer to that question is always yes. When the...
The Hundred-Foot Journey
“You’re a chef. I do not pay you to burn things.” So states Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) in one of the most pivotal scenes of the new feature The Hundred-Foot Journey. Mallory is the hard-nosed, search tight-lipped and easily-frazzled proprietess of a fancy French...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cowabunga, web dude. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have returned to the big screen in a goofy, viagra light-hearted and highly-watchable film that embraces the four brothers that those who grew up with the original trilogy know so well. The pack of turtles is joined by...
Into the Storm
The greatest problem with Into the Storm isn’t that the story is terrible (which it is) or that the dialogue is atrocious (which it is) or that some of the character’s actions make no sense (which they don’t). The movie’s greatest problem is that there are no sharks...
Child of God
“He was of German and Irish blood. A child of God. Much like yourself perhaps, look ” notes a narrator at the beginning of the new James Franco drama Child of God regarding the title character. Aside from the fact that the main character here was created by an omniscient...
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