When I had first seen the trailer for About Time, I thought “Oh, here’s another Rachel McAdams romantic drama.” It looked generic and I didn’t believe that the time travel twist would add anything deep or special to it. The…
Gaby’s Movie Review: Drinking Buddies
Drinking Buddies is the biggest surprise I’ve had at the movies this summer, probably even the whole year. When I first heard of Drinking Buddies and saw the trailer, I was mildly interested. I loved the cast but the plot…
Gaby’s Movie Review: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
I should say right off the bat that I’ve read and am a fan of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. I feel with the increasing number of YA adaptations hitting the big screen that making the previous disclaimer is…
Gaby’s Movie Review: Blue Jasmine
For putting out a new movie each year, you have to admire Woody Allen. (Especially these past few years where he’s made some great to pretty good films.) Not many filmmakers can do what he does, or at least have…
Gaby’s Movie Review: Prince Avalanche
David Gordon Green’s latest film casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch in two very different roles in a very different kind of movie. Prince Avalanche follows two road workers, fixing up a highway in an area that was ravaged by…
Gaby’s Movie Review: The Hunt
This summer we’ve been lucky to get a good handful of moving dramas sprinkled in between all the bombastic action blockbusters. The Hunt is definitely one of them. Mads Mikkelsen, best known at the moment for his portrayal of Hannibal…
Gaby’s Movie Review: Grown Ups 2
Never would I have thought I’d be treated to an opening scene where a deer would make its way into a family’s home and pee on them in fright. That is until last night when I found myself in a…