Movie Review: The Hunger Games
After the success of the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises, Hollywood studio executives have left no literary stone unturned, hoping to find the next great film franchise. Lionsgate hoped as much when it acquired the film rights to Suzanne Collins’ young adult novel, The Hunger Games three years ago.
Movie Review: Casa de mi Padre
Will Ferrell’s humor is intact but his English isn’t. His latest film finds him in similar comedy territory but this time speaking entirely in Spanish. It may not be his best or funniest film but it’s sure a lot of fun.
Movie Review: 21 Jump Street
The origins of 21 Jump Street may be lost on the younger generations Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum attract, yet they manage to pull it off anyway. The filmmakers create an understanding with the audience that they’re in on the joke but that they’re still going to deliver a thoughtful, fun film.
Movie Review: Project X
Project X is a film for the modern age. It’s basically one long YouTube video of the greatest high school party ever and is perhaps the first “found footage” film that is an outright comedy. What sounds like it could be, at the very least, an amusing premise ends up being a complete mess.
Movie Review: This Means War
Mention director McG on an online forum or in the comments of a movie site and vitriol, often vicious, sometimes melodramatic and occasionally spot-on, will surely follow.
Movie Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo shouldn’t be seen as a remake of the recent Swedish film, but rather as a reinterpretation of the source book. Either way Fincher crafts a film that’s equal, if not slightly better than, it’s predecessor.
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows
Guy Ritche’s follow up to his gritty take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic sleuth is par for the course. Picking up where the first one left of it’s more of the same for Robert Downey, Jr. and crew, who are involved in another complicated caper involving Holmes’ nemesis Moriarty.
Movie Review: Young Adult
Young Adult re-teams writer Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman for a darkly comic tale about immaturity with Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt leading the strong, if slightly vapid, character study.
Movie Review: The Sitter
The Sitter is exactly what it looks like—a hybrid of Superbad and Adventures in Babysitting. It actually works more than it probably should, mostly due to Jonah Hill’s gift for improv, but David Gordon Green has and can do better.
Film Review: The Muppets
The Muppets is sure to attract two audiences: adults nostalgic for the puppet clan and Jason Segel fans. Thankfully, neither will be disappointed and neither will the younger generations being introduced to Kermit and the gang for the first time.
Film Review: Melancholia
Lars Von Trier is known as much for his controversial nature as he is for his films, but at the end of the day he’s known as a great filmmaker. Melancholia stands as one of his best.
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