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[Review] Elysium

The big budget sci-fi action spectacle Elysium, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Matt Damon, serves as a master class in how to make stupid l...

[Review] The Smurfs 2

Screening The Smurfs 2 on the day of Ariel Castro’s sentencing, the film took on a whole aura of disturbing; we follow a smurf-napping of little blonde Smurfett...

[Review] Europa Report

By now, it’s fairly well understood that science fiction films, which were once among Hollywood’s most lucrative, beloved, and acclaimed productions, are somewh...

[Review] I Give It a Year

Clumsy and cute -- that’s my concise review of regular Sacha Baron Cohen collaborator Dan Mazer’s directorial debut I Give It a Year. It’s actually a perfect em...

[Review] 2 Guns

What do you get when you throw forty-three million dollars at an unsuspecting bank-robbing duo comprised of a DEA agent and a Naval Intelligence Officer, both b...

[Review] Breakup at a Wedding

Weddings are universally known as great fodder to run the gamut of human emotions and eccentricities. Between the idea of monogamy, the compiling of assets, and...

[Review] The Canyons

Paul Schrader’s Los Angeles has changed: the fast cars, smooth clothes, and electronically edged pop music of American Gigolo may survive, but are reworked and ...

[Fantasia Review] Big Bad Wolves

In supposing that there’s entertainment to be found watching torture onscreen, a horror/thriller subgenre was created that emphasized it to “pornographic” heigh...