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 […]
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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 […]
Still Alice (2014)
“I know I’m alive.” The song Dance Me To The End Of Love has Leonard Cohen famously singing, “Show me slowly what I only, know the limits of, dance me to the end […]
The Theory of Everything (2014)
“What’s the probability?” The Theory of Everything can be summed up in one word: serviceable. The Oscar worthy lead performances standout, but besides that this is a pretty average tale about […]
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 […]
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
“Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.” For some people, the reason for existence is relevance. The possible attainment of ubiquity gets them out of bed in […]
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