Annabelle is the prequel to 2013’s The Conjuring, directed by James Wan, which received generally favorable reviews. James Wan handed the directorial baton over to his cinematographer, John R. Leonetti, whose previous experience includes Mortal Kombat: Annihilation and The Butterfly Effect 2; safe to say that this may not have been a wise choice. The…
I first read Lois Lowry’s The Giver in eighth grade, at which time the YA classic was already ten years old. I have not read it since, and I purposely did not re-read it in advance of watching Philip Noyce’s film adaptation for this review. That said, the book had on me, like it did…
It may be a bit early to write a definitive ranking of the best films of the year. Usually it takes a few viewings of the contenders before I can make a true decision on what should be on top. That's a mistake I made last year. When I did my rankings last year, I…
I make it a general rule to try and stay away from any hype/reviews/general recommendations about what I’ll be reviewing. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was one of those films where I just couldn’t escape that stuff. Sitting through the coming attractions, I forced myself to push out all of the uber-positive feedback about the…
What’s not to love about Joseph Gordon-Levitt? He’s a talented young actor who’s good-looking and very charismatic. He starred in great films such as Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and Angels in the Outfield (He played the main character who saw the angels, I just blew some of you’re minds didn’t I?). So what if…
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Girl Meets World is hard to review. I don’t mean that it’s particularly complicated, because it isn’t. I don’t mean that anything is difficult to discuss, because it’s not. But every time I try to talk about what I like and don’t like, I end up just curling up in a little fanboy ball and…
Almost all of the time, movie franchises start off as an idea for one film that the producers are hoping can make them money. When these films are successful, Hollywood decides to capitalize on their success and make sequels. When it comes to film, three seems to be the magic number. We’ve seen many great…
out of 10 I’ve got a confession. I will watch anything with Tom Cruise in it. Anything, no matter how bad. I watched Rock of Ages just because Tom Cruise was in it. I watched Cocktail, a movie in which Tom Cruise flips bottles and sleeps with rich women in New…
out of 10 “Troll 2 is strangely watchable in a train wreck sort of way”. I can’t think of any better way to describe the b-movie to end all b-movies. While other films have come and sucked, “Troll 2” displays some of the worst acting, directing, writing, and everything else ever…
