Posts Tagged ‘Warner Bros. Pictures’
Film Review – Godzilla (2014)
I’m not ashamed to admit that I liked Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998). Certainly, I’m not going to argue that it was a good film, but I felt that it succeeded on the basic premise it was offering—widespread destruction. Now, on the 60th anniversary of the…
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Film Review – Transcendence
I came away from Transcendence (2014) wanting to like it. In my head, I tried to run through as many positive elements as I could. You know you have a problem when you have to force yourself to think about what a film did well.…
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An Appreciation – The Wizard of Oz
Unlike most people, I did not see The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a child. In fact, I didn’t see it in its entirety until I was nearing young adulthood. But even before then, I felt like there was already a familiarity. This benchmark of…
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SXSW Film Review – Veronica Mars
In some ways my decision to see the Veronica Mars movie at SXSW was more than a bit unconventional, after all I have never seen more than a few episodes. And yet the premise of the show, the charismatic talent of Kristen Bell and the…
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Film Review – Winter’s Tale
Sometimes movie adaptations of something popular comes along way too late. The excitement and momentum a given phenomenon has at times has to be capitalized upon while everyone still passionately cares. Admittedly, books or plays that are classics have a timeless quality that makes them…
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Film Review – The Lego Movie
The Lego Movie (2014) is more infectious than it probably has the right to be. The idea is absurd: an entire universe made up of those little building blocks we used to play with as children, and inhabited by yellow characters with funny shaped hands.…
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Film Review – Her
High concept plate-spinner Spike Jonze is at it again. A man falls in love with his computer? Comedy gold! As a tagline, sure, that’ll turn some heads, but the premise he’s tinkering with in Her may not be as far-fetched as it initially seems.
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Film Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When I was a young boy I had a toy, a thin rubber man in a bright red and blue outfit. He was just a generic toy purchased for less than a dollar somewhere, but when you’d grab his feet and his head or his…
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