You read right. This movie had so much weird in it, I can’t bring myself to recall every single detail. But here’s something I can ascertain: this film was a disappointing disaster of epic proportions. Brought to us by the Wachowski siblings, the makers of The Matrix trilogy, Jupiter Ascending is about an everyday caretaker named Jupiter (Mila Kunis),… Read More Voldemort, dog ears, and elephant pilots in “Jupiter Ascending”
We all watched her in F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and loved her (most of us, anyway), watched her in mediocre tk good comedy movies and laughed with her, but we can finally say it: Jennifer Aniston has finally moved on from comedy. Most recently, the actress lends her talents to Cake, a drama that follows Claire Bennett (Aniston), a divorcee battling… Read More Jennifer Aniston delivers a painfully-good performance in “Cake.”
Well holy freaking shit. From The Slumdog Millionaire to Unbroken, most of us are suckers for a good underdog story, but no movie has been able to achieve the feat of gripping its audience like 2014’s Whiplash did. Directed by Damien Chazelle (who, by the way, is 30 years old with this as his sophomore… Read More The pursuit of stardom: J.K. Simmons slays in “Whiplash”
Let me point out Dumbo. This was one hell of a good movie. The Imitation Game recounts the true story of Alan Turing, a professor and mathematician who, between the years of 1939 and 1941, worked with a group of cryptographers to crack Enigma, a communication device made of undecipherable codes used by the Germans… Read More “The Imitation Game”: not all those who win are victors
So this is it. This is the movie that’s been garnering accolades uncontrollably, picking up statue after statue here and there at award shows. Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater, has gained near-unanimous international acclaim and has been named one of the best movies of 2014 across different outlets. Already with a Golden Globe Award for… Read More We all saw “Boyhood” in 1993…we just didn’t know it.
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