A Most Violent Year (2015)
“We all have our ambitions.” J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year certainly is exacting, enterprising fare. It’s also one of the absolute best films released this year, flawless in its technical expertise […]
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American Sniper (2015)
“I don’t know what a Quran looks like.” American Sniper is as ignorant, misleading, and one-dimensional as the above quote. Instead of being a smart, well-written essay and character study, it […]
The Interview (2014)
“Excuse him, he has stink dick.” Sometimes you have to give a bad movie credit where credit is due entirely because of the sheer audacity and bronze balls it has […]
The 10 Best Christmas Movies You Haven’t Seen
It gets harder every Christmas season to turn on the TV and find something new to watch. To discover a movie you haven’t seen or even heard of. You’re bound to […]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
“No one else can do this but her.” After sitting through Mockingjay – Part 1, it’s incredibly hard to believe that quote. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), the girl on fire, […]
Big Hero 6 (2014)
“On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?” Judging from the initial promo clips, I figured this would be a grand tale of a boy wonder […]
John Wick (2014)
“That nobody is John Wick.” It’s been awhile since an action movie came along that didn’t try to be more than it really is, and John Wick is as dynamic […]
Fury (2014)
“The devil watches over his own.” What makes Fury so effective and so different from others in the war genre is its tragic sense of pointlessness. Set at the end […]
The Equalizer (2014)
“You gotta be who you are in this world.” There’s something about old men that are still able to kick ass that is just awesome. Instead of leaving their condominiums […]
The Maze Runner (2014)
“No one survives a night in the maze.” Nestled somewhere in between The Hunger Games and Divergent series is The Maze Runner. Like those two, it’s centered around young adults and set in a futuristic society. […]
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