The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
“Do you ever wonder why we fall in love with a specific person?” The vast majority of us have had the loves of our lives enter and just as easily exit […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
The Good Lie (2014)
“I’m just supposed to help them find jobs.” Although I don’t outright refuse to watch The Blind Side, I don’t think I have ever enjoyed the movie. It’s superficial to a fault […]
Blue Ruin (2014)
“You point the gun. You shoot the gun.” My junior year of college I took a course on French Cinema, highlighted by the influences and aftereffects of the implemented social structures […]
Happy Christmas (2014)
“You think you could babysit for a few hours?” Take paint thinner to the often glossy and extravagant holiday films and you’ll find yourself with Happy Christmas. Not a whole lot happens, […]
Land Ho! (2014)
“You gotta get on with your life.” It’s one thing to plagiarize a film. Even worse is to do it poorly. A wannabe copy of last year’s supremely funny and […]
The Babadook (2014)
“It wants to scare you first and then you’ll see it.” How is it possible for such a low-budget, lo-fi horror story to be one of the most chilling and emotionally […]
Beyond the Lights (2014)
“We’re selling fantasy here, and suicide ain’t sexy.” Movies like this just don’t get made anymore. Beyond the Lights borrows from its own title and elevates its conventional and formulaic story to […]
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