I love movies, plain and simple. I try to keep up on the most current ones, or at least the bigger releases. My reviews are based on a 4 star rating system.
-Matt V.
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Daybreakers
Daybreakers is about the horrors of a society that has gotten too comfortable, and is eating itself. As corrupt potentates drink blood wine and eat blood caviar, we wonder how much longer civilization can bear the strain. The pristine homes and manicured lawns of suburbia are nothing more than petty amusements the vampires use to distract themselves from their impending doom. Near the end, we bear witness to the kind of moral travesties that desperation is often used to justify. And it’s all horribly familiar.
Date Night
“Date Night” is everything its trailers don’t make it appear to be–a hugely entertaining, rowdy, wacky slapstick film featuring two comic geniuses. Steve Carell and Tina Fey, two major stars of the two biggest sitcoms on NBC, have an exciting chemistry that carries this goofy, mainstream film to glorious heights. The duo plays a middle-aged […]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1)
I’m not the world’s most aredent Harry Potter Fan. Â I read the first three books partly out of a sense of generational obligation, and partly out of mild curiosity, but always found their Lord of the Rings-lite sensibilities to be more than a bit uninteresting. Â They were entertaining and charming, but midway through Goblet of […]