Foxcatcher is not an easy movie to sit through. In fact it’s quite unpleasant, oppressively intense from the start of the movie, and by the time the movie is over, you’ll feel as if all your joy and life has been sucked from you. You’ll also be hankering to see it again as Foxcatcher is also one of the finest films of the year.
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.
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.
There probably won’t be a film to hit in September that will be more entertaining than The Maze Runner.
You guys, Guardians of the Galaxy is what we were all hoping it would be. A fun, thrilling, pop colored concotion of fun jokes, thrilling action, and a rag tag group of heroes that include a talking raccoon and a sentient tree. Marvel has figured out the perfect way to tap into our inner fan and with Guardians of the Galaxy has found a great film to fits its mold and expand the universe.
So…uh…I kinda didn’t like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. That’s probably the best place to start off this review, and also because I don’t really know a better way to get into it. After the wonder that was Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this movie is this new reboot feels akin to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, a boring film with some good sequences that doesn’t quite capture the magic of its predecessor.