Posts Tagged ‘Universal Pictures’
Film Review – The Purge: Election Year
Man I wish these movies were better. This series is a repeating exercise in frustration. There is potential here for making a trenchant, biting, incisive commentary on American society. And there are germs of good ideas in The Purge series. But they are so underutilized…
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Film Review – Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
I’m of two minds when it comes to Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016). For one, it does a good job at being about something – commenting on gender politics and the sickening rape culture that plague college campuses. On the other hand, it adheres so…
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Film Review – The Huntsman: Winter’s War
In the latest effort of a studio to force feed us an unwanted franchise comes Universal’s The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016). This follow up to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman shamelessly incorporates pieces of better properties in an attempt to adhere towards the widest…
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Film Review – The Boss
In The Boss (2016), Melissa McCarthy plays a self made business tycoon who sees her empire go down the drain when she’s caught for insider trading. Imagine Martha Stewart, but even more brash. After a six-month stint in minimum-security prison, she gets released and has…
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Film Review – Hail, Caesar!
Hollywood’s golden era was famously controlled by giant production studios that lorded over their workers as if within fictitious fiefdoms of entertainment and prestige. Studios like MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) hired people known as fixers to maintain a positive public image of the people they employed by…
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Film Review – Sisters
The new Tina Fey/Amy Poehler joint Sisters accomplishes the number one thing that is required of a comedy. It is funny. Damn funny. I mean full on hard belly laugh funny. We can discuss the artistic merits of film and the depth of character or…
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Film Analysis – The Sexual Awakening of George McFly
On the cinematic date of October 21, 2015, Back to the Future II has Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) arrive in his hometown of Hill Valley thirty years from where the original film left off in order to help his kids. With all the attention…
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Film Review – Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015) is a perfect example of how advertisements can misconstrue audience expectations. Trailers and posters would have us believe that this is a horror film. That is not the case. Although there is plenty of spooky atmosphere, ghouls that lurk…
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