Top 5 Presidential Dramas
With the very strange, very intriguing new movie Elvis & Nixon starring Michael Shannon as Elvis and Kevin Spacey as Nixon. The movie dramatizes the meeting between the two and tells the story behind the most requested photo in the National Archives.…
In Theaters April 15th, 2016
This weekend is quite a big weekend for new movies! There are a couple releases that have us really excited this week, including the newest animation to live-action Disney movie. Plus, if you saw the 2013 indie-thriller smash, Blue Ruin, then…
Reviewing The Classics| The Day the Earth Stood Still
When director Robert Wise’s Sci-Fi drama, The Day the Earth Stood Still, debuted in 1951 it was met with mostly positive acclaim by critics but not as widely seen by audiences of the day. It finished 52nd at the box…
Top 5 Coming of Age Movies
With the impending release of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!!, a spiritual sequel to his classic coming of age movie Dazed and Confused, it seems appropriate to reach back into the formative years of life to look at five movies widely considered…
In Theaters March 25th, 2016
When there are two superheroes doing battle in a new movie, that means there are no other movies coming out this weekend. While they are physically happening and will be illuminating a dark theater, all other movies will bow to…
Review| The Wave (Bølgen)
The Wave (Bølgen), Norway’s first disaster flick—and the country’s official submission to the Foreign Language Film category of the 88th Academy Awards—is a film that is intimately familiar with the well-worn tropes of its genre, a film that, instead of…
In Theaters March 4th, 2016
We’ve survived an extra day in February and made our way into March. You know what that means, don’t you? Yes, fine readers, that means the movie season is officially in full bloom. As the beginning of Spring is a…
Streaming Weekly February 2016 3.0
There are a lot of great movies coming out this weekend in theaters, but that doesn’t mean if you aren’t going to the theaters you will have nothing to watch. Our intrepid contributors have explored the deepest, darkest jungles of…
In Theaters February 19th, 2016
This week’s new movies are an exercise in polemics. One one side you have the brand-new, much hyped horror movie, The Witch. On the other side, you have the less-hyped but the very positively reviewed movie about the resurrection of Christ, Risen.…
Top 5 80s Fantasy Films
Fantasies from the 80s are among some of my favorite films in general. The use of organic effects that stretched creative effort and artistry is what gets me. They may not hold up to first-time 21st-century viewers, but I personally…