By Chris Exantus It is hard to determine the quality of a movie in the absence of outside expectations, and such is the case of The Artist. Hype for this black and white silent film has reached astronomical levels, with many critics predicting it as a shoo-in for this year’s Best Picture award. Because
By Vinnie Abbatecola “It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the Muppets.” These are the opening lines to the theme song for The Muppet Show, the 1970s television program that first showcased the late Jim Henson’s popular puppet creations. After a 12-year hiatus from movie theaters,
By Danielle Gittleman The second to last installment in the Twilight Saga franchise, Breaking Dawn Part 1, is definitely worth sinking your teeth into. The story of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan picks up right where it left off. The plot closely follows the book, beginning with the wedding Twilight fans have been waiting
By Vinnie Abbatecola For a pre-Halloween festivity, I jumped at the chance to attend a midnight showing of the new-found footage horror film, Paranormal Activity 3, directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost. What started out as a modest ghost story with a shoe-string budget has now generated a wildly popular horror trilogy, with
By Chris Exantus A great horror film should be one that properly projects the audience’s fears onto the screen. Hence, the problem with modern horror films: most focus on easy thrills and gory violence as substitutes for actual terror. The Thing, a prequel to the 1982 remake of the same name directed by John
By Vinny Abbatecola How well do we know our politicians? Hopefully well enough, since we trust them with our nation’s future. Will they keep their promises to voters, or are they lying through their television-friendly white teeth? It’s not a complete shocker that as much as we do know about them could be equal
By Vinny Abbatecola “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Director Bennett Miller opens his behind-the-scenes baseball drama, Moneyball, with this quote from one of the game’s all-time greats, Mickey Mantle. After reading it, skepticism might take hold and have you asking, “How could this prodigy
By Vinny Abbatecola Another summer has come and gone, and has left us with an ample assortment of movies to discuss. From May to August, there was a healthy helping of many genres for a range of cinematic tastes. Sci-fi thrill-seekers satisfied their hunger with Super 8 and Rise of the Planet of the Apes;
By Jess Scanlon Carbon Nation, not to be confused with sound-alike carbonation, begins the third season of the ESSC Green Film Series with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The opening documentary discusses solutions to a serious problem, and claims that even if viewers do not believe that humans are the cause of climate change, viewing this film
By Monica Jaramillo The Lion King, one of Disney’s most beloved musicals has now returned to theaters in 3D. The film, originally released in 1994, was brought back for a 3D adaption, originally planned to stay in select theaters for two weeks. After its instant success, however, some theaters chose to extend its showing dates.
By Christopher Exantus The film “Drive” is a strange beast. Directed by Danish-born Nicolas Winding Refn (“Bronson”), the film has been getting a large mainstream push by film distributor Film District even though Refn has been mostly known for his output in the independent film market. Drive doesn’t stray too far from Refn’s artistic vision,
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