Justice League: Snyder Cut Directed by Zach Snyder 2021’s Justice League: The Snyder Cut is a 4 hour reshoot of 2017’s Justice League, but with Director Zach Snyder in full creative control. The 2017 version of the film was co-directed by Joss Whedon and Zach Snyder; however, to the disdain of Snyder, Whedon took over […]
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Movie Reviews: 7500, The Devil All the Time, The Tax Collector
7500 This thriller has a slow, yet steady incline that makes you wanting more. Although the film is set in one setting, the camera angles & story, also written by Vollrath, keeps you on your toes until the final act. Tension that is seen from multiple perspectives is not only unique but delivered in such a […]
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Movie Review: Hello, My Name is Doris
Mix-Matched patterns, funky hair and a taste for smut novels with impossibly shredded men on the covers: Doris Miller, played by Sally Field, is the prototypical, eccentric older woman. “Hello, My Name is Doris” follows Doris on a journey of self-discovery that is sparked in–part by her friendship and infatuation with her much younger co-worker, […]
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Movie Review: Deadpool
Even in an era where every comic book superhero seems to be getting a movie, it is still difficult to believe “Deadpool” has come to the big screen in a film of his own. In most of his prior iterations, Deadpool has been depicted as the embodiment of profanity, carnage-incarnate, the king of the explicit. […]
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Movie Review: The Theory of Everything
After Stephen Hawking is told he only has two years to live due to his amyotrophic lateral sclerosis he pleads to his girlfriend Jane Wilde that he needs these two years to work… to only work. However, Wilde counter-argues and states that she can’t have him break up with her and that she has already fallen […]
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Movie Review: Rosewater
Jon Stewart’s Rosewater is the world’s most optimistic torture story ever told. In his first outing as writer and director, Stewart crafts an oddly good humored retelling of Iranian-Canadian Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari’s capture. Bahari’s journey to Iran to cover the elections turns from a short assignment to a prolonged stay in solitary confinement. Bahari’s […]
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Movie Review: McConaughey and Company Fight to Save Humanity in the Astonishing “Interstellar”
Interstellar is a long movie. A very, very long movie filled with ideas, ambition, emotion, and absolutely gorgeous depictions of space and time. All of this comes together to form a runtime of nearly three hours, but not a single moment of the film left me feeling disinterested or ready for the movie to end. […]
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Movie Review: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
I can remember quite clearly the smoldering and humid summer night of 1992, being only ten years old and anxiously standing in line outside the movie theater for the grand opening of “Batman Returns” with my father. Growing up a die-hard Batman fan, constantly re-watching and ultimately wearing out my brother’s old VHS tape of […]
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Movie Review: Teller and Simmons are Electrifying in the Jazz-Infused “Whiplash”
If you’ve ever made an attempt at taking up an artistic interest—be it through visual arts, creative writing, or especially music—odds are you’ve probably had the phrase “practice makes perfect” continuously jammed into your ears by your family, friends, and most certainly by your instructors. Odds also are that you probably haven’t had a chair […]
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Movie Review: Nightcrawler, A Gorgeous and Disturbing Roller Coaster
What would you do to get a leg up on someone? “Nightcrawler” is obsessed with those transactions. Social levers and power struggle mark this back alley thriller that has a dark sense of humor. Louis Bloom looks like he has had a rough go of it. Malnourished and bug-eyed, Jake Gyllenhaal looks like he lost […]