Nothing in Hollywood is truly off-limits and this is again perpetuated by the fact that we’re getting an updated version of The Gambler 44 years after its initial release. Rupert Wyatt (and company) try...
Disney’s new movie, Into the Woods, was the movie I wanted to go see on Christmas Day. As luck would have it, I got a chance to see it early and I thought I’d...
Up to this point, Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films have, generally speaking, been criticized for being too much. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was almost all exposition and the attention to detail actually worked against...
Having a particular style can usually be seen as a good thing. Without knowing who is directing a movie, you can sometimes just tell it was made by a certain filmmaker. However, that doesn’t...
Dumb and Dumber never was a critically-acclaimed film. Sure, it’s a film hordes of young men (myself included) watched over and over again, but that doesn’t mean it was universally-acclaimed. Going into Dumb and...
Animated films sometimes get unfairly lumped into a more juvenile category. Most people assume an animated movie is for children and children only. Yes, they are designed to tap into the children demographic but...
People go to the movies for a variety of reasons. Some go to see an interesting story; others go to see an interesting character. Some go to escape reality; others go to see a...
Nowadays, the phrase “good on paper” must apply to every single movie made in Hollywood (I’d argue that phrase is about the only thing that matters but that’s a discussion for another time). Gregg...
Predictability is easily one of the toughest things to overcome in the film industry. Whether we like to admit it or not, most movies seem to follow the same pattern. We can sometimes trick...
Maybe it’s because we’re so desensitized by war but if you actually think about it: war has to be one of the oddest things we do as a species. No country allows killing…except when...
