There might not be a more delightful movie you’ll see this year than Disney’s Big Hero 6. It’s nice to be able to go into a film and just thoroughly enjoy the twists and turns, and be filled with a sense of wonder and awe and this movie delivers that in spades.
Hello fellow Oscar obsessives, did you miss me? It’s been a while since I updated my Oscar predictions but now seems like as good a time as any.
Birdman‘s full title is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) but it should probably be called Birdman or (How a Movie Can Have Great Elements and Still Not Work). That’s probably the best way to describe the movie which admittedly has some amazing elements that can’t be denied. It certainly has a startling vision from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, wonderful cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezki, one of the best sound mixes I’ve ever heard and some delightful performances and yet…I left the movie feeling unwhelmed and detached. This isn’t to say that a movie has to be crowd pleasing or warm, but I felt the movie kept me at a distance and didn’t let me fully embrace the spikes and dementedness.
Dear White People, a new film produced by LMU alumna Effie Brown (Film and Television – B.A. ’93), opens in theaters October 17. Winner of the 2014 Special Jury Prize at Sundance and Best Picture at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Dear White People has been called “a button-pushing word-of-mouth dynamo” (The Wall Street Journal), “a smart hilarious satire
There probably won’t be a film to hit in September that will be more entertaining than The Maze Runner.
Though many of us in Los Angeles are roasting in the heat, the movie world seems to be on the verge of diving into the fall season. However, the folks at 20th Century Fox are hoping that moviegoers will still feel as if it’s summer movie season and turn out in droves for their new YA franchise, The Maze Runner. Does this property have what it takes to become a smash hit?