Reviews

  • The life lessons of “Boyhood”

    “Boyhood” earned six Oscar nominations for the 87th Academy Awards on Feb. 22, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor and Actress. A product of over twelve years of patient filming by Richard Linklater, this successful movie is an original, thought-provoking work in which the actors actually “grow up” with their characters.…

  • Review: “Carmilla” – Lesbian vampires make great stories

    Popular among the LGBTQ community and its supporters, the new web series “Carmilla,” found on YouTube, is based off of the gothic novel of the same name written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Taking place in Silas University, this light dramedy involves the mystery of missing students and gay vampires. The story begins with…

  • Review: “Into the Woods” is a welcome twist on Disney tales

    Rob Marshall’s “Into the Woods” is a musical turned movie that combines the fairy tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and an original tale of a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child. However, what makes this movie different from other Disney fairy tale adaptations…

  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Review

    The epic stories of Middle Earth have come to an end with “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” a decently spectacular but slightly controversial installment. To continue Smaug’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) furiosity after the confrontation by Thorin’s company in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the film begins with the dragon Smaug destroying…

  • Unbroken: an incomplete but fascinating story of strength and forgiveness

    Planes, running, sharks, beatings, poop, coal, and more beatings. That’s what Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken is about: the struggles of track star, castaway, and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini in World War II. Stationed at an air base in Hawaii and tasked with attacking Japanese forces in the Pacific islands, Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) leads…