For most college students, there exists a nagging fear of an unfamiliar and daunting realm known as the real world, whether it be battling unemployment or the mundane reality of working nine to five under constant supervision. But the fear is real when it comes to Seth Gordon’s “Horrible Bosses.” Read More…
Movies like “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” bolster the sequel stereotype: they only get worse and worse. Michael Bay is milking these Hasbro toys until the teet runs dry, as the latest installment in the Transformers series is the weakest and most forgettable of the robo-mayhem franchise. The plot Read More…
It’s already become redundant to say that Pixar exhibits the gold standard in terms of animation. Over the past 25 years, the Emeryville-based studio has earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes and the universal admiration of children and adults alike. They’ve managed to maintain a winning formula that combines Read More…
Movies like “The Green Lantern” make it easy to lose hope in originality. Perhaps there really are no new ideas out there. Perhaps the only way to make a film today is to throw together a hodgepodge of successful past franchises, add in some shiny 3-D graphics, and hope summer Read More…
Based on the 1938 children’s book of the same name, “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” resembles little of the classic many of us read as elementary school students. Screenwriters Sean Anders and John Morris transform Tom Popper, the small town house painter that authors Richard and Florence Atwater created, into a highly Read More…
After much viral hype and speculation, the J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg alien epic “Super 8” has now landed in theaters. With a similar setup that Abrams used in “Cloverfield,” the film depicts a mystery-shrouded, violent alien and its encounters with Earth’s inhabitants. The story centers around a group of Read More…
Superhero origin stories can have a way of refreshingly rebooting a franchise, no matter how squandered the series was before. Similar to how “Batman Begins” brought a new light (or lack thereof) to a previous, laughable franchise, Matthew Vaughn’s prequel “X-Men: First Class” has revived the film franchise with a Read More…
The Tree of Life,” philosopher and filmmaker Terrence Malick’s first film in over half a decade, opens with the news of a young boy’s death that is never mentioned again. Framed by this veil of mortality, the rest of the film contains an emotional intimacy that has not been on Read More…
Bros, rejoice as the wolf pack is back and ready to wreak havoc in the hustling and bustling streets of…Bangkok? Sure, the slums of Thailand are a far cry from the glamour of Vegas but it’s a surprisingly fitting location for this zany sequel. The antics are crazier and the Read More…
Supine on a hotel bed, Inez asks Gil, “Do you really want to give it all up just to struggle?” Yes, he does. And if people like Gil didn’t give it all up, we wouldn’t have movies like Woody Allen’s 41st feature film “Midnight in Paris.” Skeptics like Inez are Read More…
