The latest installment of the James Bond franchise, Skyfall features gratuitous explosions and plenty of femme fatales. However, the 23rd Bond film has an added dimension. Beyond gunfights, beautiful women, and vodka martinis – shaken, not stirred – this film carries with it some measure of social commentary. It’s still an action-packed adventure, but...
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I saw The Hunger Games by accident, thinking John Carter was still playing. The theater was bustling with energy, and I had remembered The Hunger Games was opening that day. All previous movies had been kicked out of the showings, instead replaced by The Hunger Games and other new movies. I had read half...
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This certainly took a while, since it’s been a few days since I saw Contagion and several more since most interested people went to see it themselves, so this review might not be timely. However, people like to either have a semi-professional agree with them or have something to argue about, so here goes...
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For fans all over the world who had been holding their breaths ever since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 came out last November, this is it. This is the grand finale of the Harry Potter series films, which, for ten years, have done a marvelous job of taking the enchanting story...
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Sucker Punch is everything it looks like: babes and machine guns. But they manifest themselves in a surprisingly deep and confusing movie. I love Zack Snyder. Watchmen is my fourth favorite movie of all time, so I was extremely excited for Sucker Punch. The movie follows the story of a girl whose parents die...
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“These are dark times; there is no denying,” booms the Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in the tone-setting opening scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. True to the book, the first part of the film adaptation is the darkest film installment yet. It wastes no time summarizing previous events (and rightly...
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