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My name is Luke and I’m an unapologetic fan of Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Hobbit’ films. While ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ wasn’t as strong as the first &...
My name is Luke and I’m an unapologetic fan of Peter Jackson’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Hobbit’ films. While ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ wasn’t as strong as the first &...
I was recently speaking with a friend of mine who criticized the Coen brothers’ films for being too “on the nose.” “So what?” I said. “That’s the whole point!” Their new ‘Insid...
‘Homefront’ is a strange movie to release at Thanksgiving. This violent and bloody action thriller stars Jason Statham and James Franco, with a small appearance by Winona Ryder. Based on a novel by Chuck Logan, the che...
For some reason, Disney has tried to disguise its princess fairy tale musicals in recent years. After ‘The Princess and the Frog‘ failed to match the success of the blockbuster princess flicks of the 1990s, it feels as...
Even though I haven’t read the books, I quite enjoyed the adaptation of the first ‘Hunger Games’ novel. Sure, the story felt like a teen-friendly ‘Battle Royale‘ knock-off, but it established a grim d...
Over the past few years, the Beat Generation that spawned writers and poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac has returned to cinema screens in documentaries (‘William S. Burroughs: A Man Within’), bio-pics (R...
Alexander Payne has a knack for creating quirky characters in Oscar-winning films like ‘Sideways’ and ‘The Descendants’. His newest movie strikes a more somber note than his previous work, but still manages...
20th Century Fox would like you to compare ‘The Book Thief’ to the Oscar-winning ‘Life of Pi’. The trailers even say, “From the studio that brought you Life of Pi.” Not the director or the write...
‘Dallas Buyers Club’ is a fresh take on the familiar AIDS story. The film has a knockout script and amazing performances by Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. The true-life narrative about a heterosexual Dallas man di...
I’m completely burned out on Marvel’s one-note Cinematic Universe, and really hadn’t looked forward to the follow-up to ‘Thor’. While I enjoyed what Kenneth Branaugh did with the Norse god, and though...
The trailers for ‘Last Vegas’, a comedy starring several actors over the age of 60 in a plot very similar to ‘The Hangover’, gave me serious doubts about how good it could actually be. On the one hand, I fo...
It’s about time that a film this year is worth raving about!