I don’t consider myself a hard core Star Trek fan, but I’ve gotten to really love this franchise over the past few years. The new trailer for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond was released by Paramount on Friday and it’s already…
Cannes Report #5 (American Honey, Personal Shopper, Hell or High Water)
One thing about the Cannes film festival is that you watch so many noteworthy films that you are bound to lost track of some. Case in point David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water (8/10) which screened as part of the…
‘The Finest Hours’ copies Spielberg to some success
If I learned two things while watching The Finest Hours, it’s that Chris Pine needs a towel and that director Craig Gillespie really wants to be Steven Spielberg. The stage is set at the Massachusetts coast in 1952. We follow everyone’s favorite pretty boy, Chris…
Star Trek Beyond Trailer is all “boom” and no brains
This was my morning. I woke up to study for some finals, when a passing YouTube thumbnail made me think, “Screw finals… the new Trek trailer is up!” Could this be the one where they finally make these films allegorical?…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Z for Zachariah’
The end of the world doesn’t always come with a bang and large amounts of carnage. The aftermath isn’t always a dystopian society run by tweens or a Mad Maxian style anarchist society that worships water. Sometimes the end of…
TV Review: Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp Recaptures the Spirit of Its Origin
When Wet Hot American Summer hit theaters over a decade ago, it flopped spectacularly at the box office–not a particularly surprising turn of events for a tiny indie film starring a bunch of people no one had ever heard of.…
Movie Review: Into the Woods
Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods is one of those great rarities of the stage: an introspective musical. There aren’t any big song-and-dance numbers with complex choreography and tons of extras. Catchy melodies are practically de-emphasized in favor of intricate wordplay…