Category Archives: Movie Reviews

by | November 3, 2014 · 11:35 am

Editorial | Review: Horns

***** SPOILER ALERT *****

This review will be discussing plot points which may be considered spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.

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When I first realized that a movie based on a novel by Joe Hill was coming to theaters October 31, my interest was piqued.  I hadn’t read Horns, but I have read some of his other stuff, including Locke & Key, which is gothic mystery/fantasy graphic novel series set in New England.  Sadly, the big screen interpretation of his book, while visually stunning, was disappointing. Continue reading →

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by | August 26, 2014 · 4:09 pm

Review: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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I’ve seen many, many movies in my twenty-nine years. In all that time, I have never sat in an entirely empty theater, at least not until I went to see Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. I should have taken this as a sign, but then again, I’ve never been very good picking up on bad omens. Continue reading →

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by | August 11, 2014 · 9:07 pm

Editorial | Starz’ Outlander, My Reaction

This weekend, the Starz channel aired the season one premier of the TV adaptation of the beloved novel Outlander.  In the Venn diagram of book genres, Outlander nestles neatly in the overlap between romance novel, historical fiction, and fantasy.  The majority of the book is set in Scotland in 1743, but there is definitely magic involved in the tale.  I’ve been meaning to read Outlander for quite a while, and was shocked to actually find it in my reading pile of doom recently, meaning that I picked it up without realizing it at some point in my travels.  Starz was just about to begin a TV series based on the book, so what better time to read it?

Having freshly read the book for the first time right before watching the first episode of the show has allowed me to make more accurate comparisons between the two.  Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly about Starz’s TV adaptation.

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by | August 8, 2014 · 12:07 pm

Why Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is Doing So Well

Losers. Criminals. A-holes. All of these are accurate descriptions of the Guardians of the Galaxy, the titular team of Marvel’s latest blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy. Not only did this movie meet expectations, it utterly annihilated them. How is it that this unlikely film has managed to do so much box office traffic?guardians-of-the-galaxy-poster-21 Continue reading →

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