Despite the audience's embrace of their output, Marvel still hasn't released that "A"-quality film quite yet. Don't get me wrong, the universe they have created...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
Like it or not, the twenty-first century has brought cultural alterations. For instance, the conversation about futuristic dystopias and/or social upheaval no l...
How do you tell the story of something as horrific as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge's four-year rule over Cambodia after the Kampuchean Revolution when the only f...
Is it a coincidence the Muppet renaissance follows the same trajectory as its subjects' original cinematic saga? 2011's The Muppets was enjoyable if not a tad o...
Children are our legacy—our immortality. We sacrifice everything to raise them in our image, hoping for the best until they're set free as fully formed adults r...
When one reads a synopsis for the late Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago’s The Double you’ll find a very straightforward tale of doppelgangers. There’s t...
Science! You either see it as the backbone to understanding or you don't, and everyone who doesn't, may want to avoid Mark Levinson's Particle Fever because it'...
This is what a copy of a copy looks like. It pretends to be equal to the original—and in some aspects proves to be exactly the same—yet arrives seven years afte...
Has summer started early? Big blockbusters like Divergent, Noah, 300: Rise of an Empire, and Need for Speed are releasing in March—I guess they must therefore be the studios’ lesser box office juggernauts. You know, the ones they aren’t quite sure will earn the bank they had hoped when forking over the cash for production. Tween action/romances did not fare well last year, no one knows who Noah is targeting besides Darren Aronofsky fans, Rise looks like a 300 rip-off, and Need for Speed is, well, exactly what you’d think from a racing video game property. At least some of their posters are pretty …...
