REVIEW: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 [2012]
“Should I start calling you Dad?” **contains spoilers as far as its major difference from the book** I’m going to applaud The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 for two reasons. One, it signals what...
View ArticleREVIEW: Warm Bodies [2013]
“God, we move slow” Who would have thought even fifteen years ago that 2013’s nerd culture would have at its pinnacle zombies and bacon? Seriously, who? While we have Ron Swanson to thank for helping...
View ArticleREVIEW: Beautiful Creatures [2013]
“You can either run or shoot” Just like clockwork the Twilight series has found a successor. Trading vampires and werewolves for witches, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl‘s Caster Chronicles‘ has...
View ArticleREVIEW: Java Heat [2013]
“So, you just hit on her?” It’s taken director Conor Allyn five years and two movies to finally have the actioner Java Heat put him at the helm of a movie with English as its first language. His...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones [2013]
“What does that symbol mean?” Another Young Adult fantasy fiction trilogy to throw into the Hollywood machine, Cassandra Clare‘s The Mortal Instruments gives Sony a property looking for broad appeal...
View ArticleREVIEW: 100 Bloody Acres [2013]
“…We’ll Fertilize Ya!” There is a fine line between horror spoof and horror comedy. The former tries to make fun of the genre while the latter looks to appeal to audiences of both halves. Since most...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box [2014]
“Faithfulness will be your shield” There will never be a lack of literary fantasy adventures for ages 12 and up to transfer from page to screen. The question becomes whether the property is given...
View ArticleREVIEW: Vampire Academy [2014]
“The clarity of the darkness beckons” The target demographic for Vampire Academy? Teenage girls. The only demographic that could truly, completely enjoy it? Teenage girls. With that said, however, it...
View ArticleBNFF14 PREVIEW: The 8th Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
It’s eight years later and The Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival is still going strong April 24th through May 3rd. I personally missed organizer and filmmaker Bill Cowell‘s inaugural season,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Only Lovers Left Alive [2014]
“A diamond emitting the music of a giant gong” In the age of Twilight its good to know an auteur like Jim Jarmusch can render contemporary vampires as the romantic ideals of immortality, wisdom, and...
View ArticleREVIEW: If I Stay [2014]
“True love’s a bitch” I am not a proponent of stories that hinge the possibility of undying live between teenagers on an unspeakable tragedy. This was my biggest issue with the overwrought sequels to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Fifty Shades of Grey [2015]
“I enjoy various physical pursuits” Author E.L. James should be ecstatic that the crazy fervor surrounding her trilogy of BD/SM propelled it towards a movie deal because now artists more qualified to...
View ArticleREVIEW: What We Do in the Shadows [2014]
“Get up and stand on the ceiling like a man” In great mockumentary fashion, What We Do in the Shadows bears to mind the work of Christopher Guest. It has eccentric characters, constant mugging for the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Java Heat [2013]
“So, you just hit on her?” It’s taken director Conor Allyn five years and two movies to finally have the actioner Java Heat put him at the helm of a movie with English as its first language. His...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones [2013]
“What does that symbol mean?” Another Young Adult fantasy fiction trilogy to throw into the Hollywood machine, Cassandra Clare‘s The Mortal Instruments gives Sony a property looking for broad appeal...
View ArticleREVIEW: 100 Bloody Acres [2013]
“…We’ll Fertilize Ya!” There is a fine line between horror spoof and horror comedy. The former tries to make fun of the genre while the latter looks to appeal to audiences of both halves. Since most...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box [2014]
“Faithfulness will be your shield” There will never be a lack of literary fantasy adventures for ages 12 and up to transfer from page to screen. The question becomes whether the property is given...
View ArticleREVIEW: Vampire Academy [2014]
“The clarity of the darkness beckons” The target demographic for Vampire Academy? Teenage girls. The only demographic that could truly, completely enjoy it? Teenage girls. With that said, however, it...
View ArticleBNFF14 PREVIEW: The 8th Annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
It’s eight years later and The Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival is still going strong April 24th through May 3rd. I personally missed organizer and filmmaker Bill Cowell‘s inaugural season,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Only Lovers Left Alive [2014]
“A diamond emitting the music of a giant gong” In the age of Twilight its good to know an auteur like Jim Jarmusch can render contemporary vampires as the romantic ideals of immortality, wisdom, and...
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