Like other classical Disney films such as “Cinderella”, and “Jungle book”, “Beauty and the Beast” has found itself reborn with a twenty-first century upgrade. This live action remake follows the basic concept of its predecessor; it’s a romance, but is it also more than that. Director Bill Condon has taken […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
Netflix’s live action adaptation of the hit anime and manga series Death Note is an utter disgrace and an insult to fans. It strays completely from the source material and lacks everything that made the series so popular. It was far less interesting and exciting than the original series. For […]
The movie Ocean’s Eleven is a thrilling adventure of one vengeful man, Daniel Ocean, and his team of ten other skilled crooks to try and pull off an inconceivable heist: looting over $150 million in cash from the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas. The movie opens with the […]
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam is the sequel to the 2008 Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock. Directed by Paul Hoen, this 2010 film follows Mitchie Torres (Demi Lovato) as she returns to the music-oriented summer camp “Camp Rock” in order to immerse herself in the joy of music […]
Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and first-time actor Auli’i Cravalho as the two main protagonists, Moana tells the tale of an adventurous girl on a quest to save her island from the darkness that threatens to destroy it. Long before there was islands […]
Landline: A Story of Infidelity, Hilarity, and Cord Phones When most people think of historical fiction, they think the olde english of Shakespeare or the Victorian storytelling of Jane Austen or the harrowing anecdotes of a World War. Gillian Robespierre thinks the ’90s. Her second feature deals with a […]
The Sixth Sense is a movie that will defy all of your expectations and leave you ready to watch all over again as soon as it ends. The movie begins with Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) and his wife Anna celebrating an accomplishment. Crowe is a renowned child psychologist and is […]
For my film review, I chose to review the film Inglourious Basterds. The film was made in 2009 and is directed by Quentin Tarantino. Several major actors are Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, and Michael Fassbender. The movie revolves around two separate protagonists, the Inglorious Basterds, and Shosanna Dreyfus attempting to […]
While Moana does adhere to some of the classic Disney princess tropes, it pushes the genre further in the direction of ballad-driven girl power movies set by Frozen. The story revolves around Moana’s journey to save her home Island, Motunui, with the help of her begrudging mentor Maui. She grapples […]
Good Will Hunting, a very popular film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by its actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, is centered around Will, a genius young adult. Will Hunting is from a poor area in Boston and is discovered accidentally by a mathematics professor at MIT, Gerald […]