The new family film in theaters, A Monster Calls, is pretty much the definition of a perfect family film. Capturing the childhood experience for the tough, heartbreaking and often devastating experience it can be to get through, the film is…
Really Great Songs Straight from the Trailers
Movie trailers. Sometimes bad movies have engaging trailers and sometimes good movies have boring trailers. Sometimes they make us cry, and sometimes they give away the best parts of the movie. They play before the Youtube videos we want to…
Growing Up on Film: A Top 10
There’s a reason films about growing up have galvanized the cinema’s attention for so long, and there’s a reason we keep returning back to them. Everyone has gone through it: the first steps, the juvenile ecstasies, the aching disappointments, the…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Her” Transcends Both Man and Machine
Love has always been a complex, subjective string of unexplained reactions and counter-reactions that our body has when we interact with another person. Some times it’s confusing, indescribable, inexplicable, and the best feeling you could ever experience. The beauty of…
James Gandolfini In Memorium
James Gandolfini, best know for the role of Tony Soprano in The Sopranos, died Wednesday night in Rome due to cardiac arrest at age 51. Sure, everyone knows him best for his role as a great mobster, but he has done…