This is an entry in the Pokemon Movies Retrospective Movie #1: Pokemon the First Movie – Mewtwo Strikes Back Note: For this and future reviews, I will be referring to characters primarily by their Japanese names. If a character’s name is different in the Japanese and English dubs, I will note their English name in…
Greetings all! My name’s Andrew Kim. I’m a student attending the College of William & Mary. Over Winter Break, we college students take the time to relax after two hard weeks of final exams. Students take advantage of these four weeks in various different ways. Some try to get a leg up and hit the…
Every 25 entries, I’m going to take a break listing my favorite things to talk about something I don’t like: Wow, way to pick a low-hanging fruit, right? Still, I feel that I am qualified to comment on the badness Twilight. Not only have I read the first book and watched the first movie, but…
Judd Apatow is a comedy writer-director-producer who has directed or produced some of my favorite comedies of the past decade. Apatow first worked in television, with an eye on producing even early in his career. He co-created The Ben Stiller Show just two years out of college and won an Emmy award. After that was…
The Wolf of Wall Street, I can already tell, is never going to get its proper discussion. Whenever someone says anything bad about the movie, it’ll concern its vulgarity, its garishness, maybe its running time—not the actual content of it. And that’s a shame, because Wolf—based on a memoir from Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who…
(Note: I wrote the following before author Ned Vizzini took his own life. This is the only Vizzini book I’ve read, and it’s a great one. His death is particularly sad given the topic of the book — struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.) I’m including the book and the movie in the same entry…
100 Film Favorites – #1: UHF (Jay Levey, 1989) “All you do is make yourself a TV dinner, Press your face right up against the screen, We’re gonna show you things you ain’t never seen If you know what we mean.” Wow. I just typed “#1.” This day has been a long time coming, as…
100 Film Favorites – #2: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) “If adventure has a name, it must be Indiana Jones.” And lo, we are down to the TOP TWO! What originally was supposed to take less than four months has dragged on for nearly seven, and I thank you for sticking it…
The Way Way Back (2013) – 3½ stars (out of 4) The Kings of Summer (2013) – 3 stars (out of 4) I watched two coming-of-age-themed movies this weekend that had enough interesting compare-and-contrast elements between them that I decided I wanted to write a quick article here reviewing them.
100 Film Favorites – #3: The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006) “Are you watching closely?” At last, we’re coming to the end of the long drawn-out Film Favorites Countdown. My apologies to those of you who have been waiting patiently for the epic conclusion – hopefully the delay has at least served to create some suspense.…