“Fast & Furious 6” Review: You Won’t Find Much To Think About But It Sure Is A Lot Of Fun David Weaver, May 20, 2013May 20, 2013 One thing every sequel should strive to do is improve upon its predecessor, which is also something nearly every sequel fails to deliver on. But sometimes in order to succeed, it helps when your predecessors already started at the bottom of the barrel, leaving the subsequent sequels nowhere to go…
“The Great Gatsby” Review: A Visually Stimulating And Extremely Ambitious Piece Of Filmmaking David Weaver, May 10, 2013 Baz Luhrmann is an acquired taste. He is a director who isn’t shy about over-embellishing his films with extravagant visual delights and audacious use of modern music that either clicks with you or doesn’t. Yet, whereas most filmmakers have a nasty tendency to let their own stylistic excesses overtake their…
“Oblivion” Review: Joseph Kosinski Recycles, Reuses, & Repurposes Familiar Sci-Fi Elements Michael Lee, April 18, 2013April 18, 2013 Getting that aching feeling that a film is a retread or just grabbing bits and pieces from previously similar titles is nothing new in this day an age. Not that it should be a cause for concern or anything, but it’s more or less what Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion is. The…
Movie Review: “LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Supheroes Unite” Dan Koelsch, April 4, 2013April 4, 2013 The LEGO Batman video game series has been successful both financially and critically, so it seems like only the natural progression for Warner Bros. and LEGO to make an animated film. LEGO Batman: The Movie – DC Superheroes Unite was meant to coincide with last year’s LEGO Batman 2: DC…
“The Place Beyond The Pines” Review: The Stories These Fathers and Sons Will Tell May Feel Episodic Michael Lee, March 21, 2013March 23, 2013 A film titled The Place Beyond the Pines can serve as a metaphor to bury a dark past, a place to actually bury a dark past, and the English meaning of a city. Such is the case for Derek Cianfrance’s latest directorial effort The Place Beyond The Pines. The crime…