Movie Review: Anomalisa

Anomalisa Anomalisa is unlike anything else out there. Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s new film, based on Kaufman’s “sound play”, uses puppets and stop motion to tell a story about finding real human connection in a trivial and monotonously isolating world.  David...

Movie Review: The Big Short

Adam McKay’s new film The Big Short, based on the book by acclaimed Moneyball and The Blind Side author Michael Lewis, is a brutal and unapologetic look at the events that led to the housing market crash of 2007.  The film does an excellent job at taking some...

Movie Review

Brooklyn “At first, you’ll feel so homesick that you’ll want to die.  Then one day, the sun will come out.  You’ll catch yourself thinking about something that has no connection with the past, and you’ll realize this is your life.” This line, spoken by Eilis (played...

Movie Review – Goosebumps

GOOSEBUMPS GERSBERMS!!! Phew, sorry, I had to get that out of my system.  Goosebumps is part Jumanji, part Hocus Pocus, a little bit Pinocchio, and contains more CGI animals and ghouls than you can count.  Jack Black plays a fictionalized version of R.L. Stine, the...

Movie Review

The Intern From the moment The Intern begins to the moment the end credits roll, you will have a smile on your face.  That smile will occasionally be punctuated with laughter (and a few tears).  Nancy Meyers’ newest film brings out the best in its stars Robert De Niro...

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Review

Straight Outta Compton is possibly the most important movie of 2015.  In terms of the topics it covers, including police brutality and racial inequality, it certainly shines a spotlight on how far we still have to go.  On top of this, the film stands as one of the...