Category: cinema reviews
By guest reviewer Diana Taibi January is the new October: that season when you can’t get away from horror films. Over the past few years, zombies have become particularly in style, which has thrilled me.…
“I don’t want to be this way. I am lonely, I am lost.” – R I hated Warm Bodies. Hated it with a passion. Then I actually read the book. This weekend I saw the film, and…
“I’ve been so blind…” The final days of January marked 200 years since the publishing of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, in 1813. Lots of websites, magazines, and even CNN made note of the…
Albeit controversial, I didn’t find overall that Django Unchained glorified the wrong things. In fact, its rather honest portrayal of man’s inhumanity to man may be a provocative way to fuel conversations about whether or…
And must I now begin to doubt, Who never doubted all those years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in shadow. It’s been years since I…
Chapter 5 of our recently published book is titled The Proof is in the Praxis (or “a little less conversation, a little more action please”). This middle chapter features over a dozen examples of examining…
It’s always Act 3 when the misunderstood, flawed-but-redeemable protagonist saves the day, right? We think we know the formula backward and forward, whether it’s Tony Stark or Indiana Jones, John McClane or John Creasy. Despite…
Review by Gareth Evans Christine Brown has an opportunity. She lives a callow and unfulfilled life, stuck with a seemingly dead-end job in a bank and a successful boyfriend whose parents don’t want her in…
We’ve always just known that Bond is Bond. James Bond. Curious then, that Skyfall is not only being hailed by some as the best Bond film ever made, but it also makes us realize we’ve been watching a…