Wanderlust: Free love and stereotypes for all
Let me ask you a personal question: have you ever eaten a cream puff? They’re light, wonderful, and delicious while you’re eating them, but ultimately unsubstantial. Wanderlust is the cinematic equivalent of a cream puff. Sometimes that’s all you need. Wanderlust features Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd as George and Linda, two characters as bland [...]
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Extremely long and inexplicably Oscar-nominated
February 7, 2012 Comments Off
When Hollywood put on their best slacks a few weeks ago and announced the year’s Best Picture nominees, a great wave of bewilderment swept across the universe (aka, Twitter). Why were these seemingly random assortment of movies deemed “the best”? War Horse, anyone? Particular vitriol was aimed at the 9/11-themed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, [...]
Continue reading …The best and worst is a very irresponsible subject for a movie column when, according to some, I haven’t seen the best movies of 2011. My criminology prof accosted me in the middle of an exam to demand that I see Hugo—I haven’t. The Help was apparently a collective orgasm for the world but it’s [...]
Continue reading …We’ve all had the experience of watching a movie that just can’t get your cinematic rocks off. Nonetheless, sometimes you can ignore plot holes or deranged narrative when the acting is too damn good to ignore. Examples that spring to mind are Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, or [...]
Continue reading …Hey y’all, want to get an academic’s bloomers in a bunch at an alarming speed? Then I present to you Anonymous, this year’s most ridiculous and unnecessary film. The tagline asks, “Was Shakespeare a Fraud?” The movie doesn’t so much answer this question as punch you with a fist of highly-wrought nonsense gloved in pretty [...]
Continue reading …Somewhere in the depths of a Hollywood Starbucks, Kevin Bacon is probably sulking. Not because the film industry inexplicably decided to remake his breakout movie Footloose, but because they didn’t even ask him to cameo. Apart from this lapse in judgement – and that I originally went out to see 50-50 – this movie barely [...]
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Moneyball: a movie that’s unfortunately not about someone carrying around a giant ball made of money. What hijinks would ensue when the character tries to purchase a wallet! Alas, this is about baseball instead – you know, that sport that Canadians don’t really care about. The story is thus: in the early 2000s, Oakland A’s [...]
Continue reading …I love movies. Movies are the cold side of the pillow or the three-day extension from your terrifying prof – downright sublime. From quivering in my middle-school boots while watching Snape scowl in the first Harry Potter movie, to falling for Leonardo Dicaprio in his dashing suspenders in Titanic, I’ve had some transformative moments within [...]
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