Perhaps the greatest tragedy of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is that nobody told writer/director Shawn Christensen that his gag-on-impact green smoothie of dated arthouse tropes was, in fact, a comedy. The saga a pretty boy ink-jock who becomes internally…
Movie Review: Indignation
Logan Lerman has come a long way since playing a descendant of a Greek god (Percy Jackson). In Indignation, Lerman plays Marcus, a working-class Jewish teenager/young adult from New Jersey. In order to avoid heading to fight the Korean War,…
Nourishing Films At Sundance: ‘Operation Avalanche,’ ‘Holy Hell’ and ‘Indignation’
Before the very first screening of every day at Sundance, I go out of my way to spend a few minutes at the festival headquarters to get free coffee and cookies. This has essentially become my unhealthy but also subsidized diet,…
Movie Review: Fury (2014)
War is hell. Anyone who has seen a number of war films can surmise this. It’s the basic backbone of almost every war film not starring John Wayne or Captain America, and by this point you would think that we…
Evan and Ally Talking: Book to Movie Adaptions Video Blog
Hey all! Ally and Evan are back this week to deliver you another video blog. This week we’re hitting the topic of books turned into films and primarily, our favorites. Hollywood is big into adaptations recently (if you couldn’t tell)…
Watch: New ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters’ Trailer
Get ready. A new trailer has been released by 20th Century Fox for the upcoming ‘Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters‘. The film is directed by Thor Freudenthal and stars Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Douglas Smith,…