Tag Archive: movies

Movies They Need to Stop Making Sequels To

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Why does Hollywood keep making sequels? Because we keep going to see them. The audience requires less convincing to see it, the development time is less…all in all they’re a better investment. Studios… Continue reading

Movie Review: Why ‘The DUFF’ Does Everything Wrong

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Whenever we wanted to point out everything about teen/high school movies that are stupid we looked to She’s All That. It was full of cringe. It’s begun to fade from the collective consciousness, being… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘San Andreas’

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Director: Brad Peyton Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Giamatti Plot: An unprecedented level earthquake strikes southern California, beginning by tumbling the Hoover Dam and proceeding to wreck L.A. and San Fransisco.… Continue reading

Review: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’

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Plot:  The Barden Bellas are back pitches!!!  After a live performance at the Kennedy Center in front of the President goes disastrously wrong, the Bellas are expelled from performing in any a cappella showcase or competition.  Their only… Continue reading

IFFBoston 2015 Review: ‘The Keeping Room’

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Independent Film Festival Boston 2015 Directed by: Daniel Barber Starring:  Brit Marling, Hailee Stenfeild, and Muna Otaru Plot: 3 women must protect their home from 2 rogue soldiers during the last days of the American… Continue reading

I Keep Forgetting to Review ‘Focus’

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Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Cast: Will Smith, Margot Robbie Plot: A seasoned con man takes a naive grifter under his wing, and the two attempt to balance a budding romance amid pulling… Continue reading

‘Mad Max’ Has Given Us the Most Feminist Action Movie this Decade

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I saw Mad Max: Fury Road the other day and it was FREAKING AMAZING. Miller has reminded us that visuals and story should go hand in hand in the cinematic medium, not separated… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Mad Mad: Fury Road’

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Director: George Miller Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne Plot: Still running from the demons of his past, former cop Max Rockatansky is trying to survive in the post-apocalyptic desert… Continue reading

IFFBoston 2015 Review: ‘Slow West’

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Independent Film Festival Boston 2015 Directed by: John Maclean Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Ben Mendelsohn Plot: A Scottish teenager is escorted across the American West by a bounty hunter. Review: Kodi Smit-McPhee stars… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Spring’

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Directed by: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead Starring: Lou Taylor and Pucci and Nadia Hilker Plot: A troubled American flees to Italy to clear his head and sparks a romance with a woman with a… Continue reading