The mathematician Alan Turing is a British national hero, a key figure in breaking the German’s Enigma and his Turing Machine became the basis for modern computers. But he was prosecuted for homosexuality after the war and committed suicide because of his sentence. The bio-pic The Imitation Game sets out to tell the story of […]
The Farrelly Brothers have a long history of making stupidly goofy movies, spanning back to 1994’s Dumb and Dumber continuing through to Fever Pitch and The Three Stooges in the 2000’s, and finally, coming full circle, to deliver the astoundingly dumb Dumb and Dumber To (a clever misspelling that surely flew over the heads of their […]
Director James Marsh’s love of incredible, real life, stories (Man on Wire, and Project Nim come to mind) have lead him to the life of famed black hole physicist, Stephen Hawking. Detailing the two great loves (albeit one more than the other) of the Professor’s life, The Theory of Everything depicts the struggles that accompanied […]
If you were to turn on the local news on your television, odds are the top story would be about a gruesome crime that just occurred. How does this event impact our daily lives? Not very much. All it does is instill fear and makes us ponder on the cruelties of man. It seems now, […]
It has been a century since the outbreak of World War I, one of the bloodiest conflicts in history that still has a political and cultural impact in Europe to this day. It is one of the first wars that affected the British home front on mass. This handsomely made period drama sets out to […]
Theodore Melfi’s road to producing his breakout feature, St. Vincent is almost as captivating as the movie itself. With a strong cast and quick dialogue, St. Vincent is a heartfelt comedy that explores the many relationships humans have with each other. Vincent (Bill Murray) is a low-down drunk, whose sharp tongue and lack of interpersonal […]
The film’s tagline is as follows: Go further. If you’ve seen one of the posters for this movie, you are well aware of this fact. Christopher Nolan’s latest offering does just that. It dares to go further than any other sci-fi epic in the last few years in terms of its lofty ideas and universal […]
One Friday afternoon in the fall of 2004, my dad picked me up from school and took me to see The Incredibles. It was my third month as a freshman in high school, and it sucked. But November 5th, 2004 didn’t. The day crawled and slogged but I didn’t care, so much buzzy energy bounding around […]
James Wan’s Saw forever changed modern horror by infusing the meticulous planning of Hitchcock and Clouzot, the grittiness of modern serial killer successes (Silence of the Lambs and Se7en come to mind), and the CGI enhanced gore made famous by fellow “Splat Pack”ers Rob Zombie and Eli Roth. Re-released into theaters this weekend for its […]
Writer/Director Alexandre Aja is known for his blood-splattered low budget horror films, leading back to his breakout success, Haute Tension (“High Tension”). A member of the so-called “Splat Pack” alongside directors Eli Roth, James Wan, and Rob Zombie, Aja has carved out a name for himself in one of the most brutally gory corners of […]
