The Tree of Life — Beautiful Destruction in Evolution
It’s difficult to know where to begin a discussion about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, so it might be best to say that it’s…
Reviews
Carnage — Tense, Frustrating, Awesome
Having never seen the Tony-award winning God of Carnage, from which Roman Polanski’s new film Carnage is adapted, I can’t make any comparisons on whether…
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol — A New Movie for a New Franchise
The most recent installment in the Mission Impossible franchise has appropriately been released without the sequential 4. Instead, it has been subtitled Ghost Protocol, something…
To the Best Non-Christmas Christmas Movies
As A Christmas Story begins its twenty-four hour loop to commemorate the holiday season, I think of the various other film staples that have become…
The Descendants — One of Those Comical Revenge Tales
Beneath the tale of a land baron trying to keep his family afloat after his wife suffers an irreparable brain injury, The Descendants is ultimately…
Shame — A [Failed] New Start of It
The most intriguing part about Shame is its misdirection – not in the sense that we’re being set up for a twist in the last…
Never Let Me Go — The Haunting Future of the Past
Last year, our own Rob Cotto declared Never Let Me Go the “most overlooked film of the year,” and I have to wholeheartedly agree. I…
Like Crazy — The Sorrow of the Prelude and the Aftermath
The opening scene of Like Crazy suggests that a story will be woven that examines love under the lens of the primary mode of twenty-first…
My Week With Marilyn — The Search For Truth in a Memoir
Having been born a touch shy of two decades after the death of Marilyn Monroe, I have only her filmography and Google images to comprehend…
Paul — America and Alien Culture
Until Attack the Block came out earlier this year, there was a paucity of British, alien-centric films. Monsters, a 2010 film written and directed by…