Dylan Chester

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[Jack’s Review] Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are is one of the most beautiful and heartfelt films to grace the screen in years. It's a moving and masterful piece of art. It captures all the wonders and sadness of childhood in the most profound and subtle ways possible. This isn't just one of the best films of year, but of the decade....
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[Review] Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen is a preposterous and lucrative revenge story filled with nonstop cliches. There is nothing more than a generic story and pure cheesiness, and yet it still maintains it's fun garbage tone. It does cross the point of genuine badness at times, but counters with moments of pure excitement. This isn't a particularly good film and is even downright cringeworthy during certain moments, but even those moments are fun due to their ridiculousness....
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[Review] Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity is an entertaining and unsettling horror film that easily gets under your skin. It's similar to The Blair Witch Project, except its effective and actually very well made. While that is for sure a cliche comparison by now, both films' narrative and storytelling techniques are undoubtedly familiar....
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[Review] A Serious Man

Focus Features | USA | 105 mins A Serious Man comes from the genius minds of the Coen Brothers who've once again delivered a film of utter brilliance, ranking among their best films. It is also one of their most profound yet: a dark comedic tale of a man who's life has been consistently on autopilot up until a chain of events leads him into a downward spiral of despair and questioning....
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Gary Ross In Talks To Write And Direct Venom

For a while now Zombieland scribes Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have been working on bringing the Venom spin-off to the bring screen. It's been stated in the past that they've written two drafts, but now it seems Gary Ross will be handling the script. Variety blog BfDealMemo is reporting that writer/director Gary Ross is being courted [...]...
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David Goyer Talks Ghost Rider 2

Almost a week ago it was announced that Sony is still moving forward with Ghost Rider 2 and with David Goyer's old script. Goyer's script is about nine year...
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[Review] The Invention of Lying

The Invention of Lying is a highly enjoyable, witty, and smart comedy. Similar to Ricky Gervais' previous film Ghost Town its nothing particularly special n...
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[Jack’s Review] Zombieland

Zombieland is a consistently hilarious zombie-filled comedy. This isn't a horror film and it also really isn't a survival film. The film does of course deliver ...