Weekly film reviews of features in the past month.
The Terminator franchise has had some ups and downs over the last three decades, although for the most part it’s a pretty good science-fiction series. While it garnered a mildly poor reputation, Terminator: Salvation is a pretty good movie—very well produced, performed (especially Christian Bale), and written no worse than the typical Terminator film. The key to the Terminator franchise is the … More ‘Terminator: Genisys’ Review
Pixar Studios has received some flack for the films they’ve released over the past few years. The animation studio has long been a beacon of excellent children’s films, giving us classics like the Toy Story, The Incredibles, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, the list goes on. Their decline in quality started with Cars, and … More “Inside Out” Review
The latest entry in the Jurassic Park franchise Jurassic World drew in record numbers of theater-goers. Surely this was caused by the fact that this was the first Jurassic Park film since 2001’s Jurassic Park III, as the marketing was fairly weak. Spielberg has been working on this sequel since the third installment, but due to typical Hollywood development hell, the … More Jurassic World Review
With the surprising critical success of 2011’s “X-Men: First Class,” the newest addition to the ever-growing X-Franchise, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” had a lot to live up to. Matt Vaughn, who directed “First Class,” stepped away from the helm and stepping in is X-Men veteran Bryan Singer, who directed the first two X-Men movies. … More “X-Men: Days of Future Past” Review
You’ve probably heard from people how great “The Lego Movie” is. In cases where the reception is so overwhelmingly positive, it can sometimes be easy to write it off as a silly fad over some flashy attention grab—after all, the idea of a movie about Legos screams of capitalist gluttony (think “Battle Ship”). But the … More “The Lego Movie” Review
The first time I saw the trailer for The Wolf of Wall Street, it automatically rocketed to my most anticipated film of 2013, and that was long before I started reading about it. Then the news, mostly the controversy over its rating and length, started leaking out. I was hardly phased; I didn’t care that many … More The Wolf of Wall Street Review
Leading up to this movie, I had a lot of conflicting, and very meta, thoughts and feelings. There was the knowledge that Spike Jonze had directed a couple of my favorite films, such as Adaptation and Being John Malcovich, but since I also find the same love for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and didn’t necessarily … More “Her” Review
The first Thor somehow achieved what I thought was impossible, making Asgard and the eponymous hero/god/alien who dwelled there believable. The sequel Thor: The Dark World had perhaps even more daunting issues facing it, and unfortunately, I don’t think it tackled them nearly as well as the first film. This time we’re coming back from … More Thor: The Dark World Review
[So obviously SPOILERS!] Okay, so this review is admittedly delayed, but I feel that most reviews should be given a slow burn, especially about a movie as monolithic and aspiring as Man of Steel. For me, this film will end up being closely associated with my first theatre experiences of Prometheus and The Dark Knight, significantly … More Man of Steel Review
In one of the greatest scenes in The Avengers, Captain America tells Tony Stark he’s just a “big man in a suit of armor. Take that off what are you?” It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone by now that Iron Man 3 tries to answer that, and does a better job than I thought possible. I’ll be … More Iron Man 3 Review
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