Despicable Me was a 2010 animated film that was first movie to be made by Illumination studios, who are now responsible for movies with less than favourable results, like The Lorax, Hop, The Grinch, and The Secret Life of Pets.… Continue reading "Despicable Me"
There comes a time in any movie watching experience where a movie comes along that feels the slightest bit like it’s going to stick with you in a specific way, and sometimes that can lean in a positive way or… Continue reading "The Cat in the Hat"
Anytime a movie is adapted from a written source material, there’s always that risky edge they wander when it comes to either trying to appealing to the masses or appealing to the book fans. A balance is formed between what… Continue reading "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole"
Queen was, ironically, considered the king of music during the mid-1990s, with their phenomenal music still being played and remembered to this day, and the man himself, Freddy Mercury, still held in the hearts of many even after his untimely… Continue reading "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 romance novel written by famous English novelist Jane Austen, which follows the romantic tribulations of Elizabeth Bennet, learning the repercussions of hasty judgement and in seeing the true difference between superficial goodness and true… Continue reading "Pride and Prejudice"
My dad, Bob Mitchell, is in a much older demographic and with that comes a completely different view on how movies were delivered. In certain studies, cinema seen in times form long ago, mainly attributed to cinema memory,… Continue reading "Older Cinema Experience"
The third instalment in the infamous Harry Potter film franchise, Prison of Azkaban, takes a relatively child-centric medium of stories filled with atypical components of any standard magical fantasy and ups its content to a level that can be enjoyed… Continue reading "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Rio, or Rio de Janeiro, is the beautiful capital city of the country of Brazil which is filled with energetic samba music (creating the genre of bossa nova), wildly appealing and natural landscapes and beaches, has a rich culture that… Continue reading "Rio"
It’s incredibly hard to give substance to what many people have dubbed ‘’fluff movies’’. Fluff movies are films that are focused solely on being the most adorable thing in the world which often means that not a lot of thought… Continue reading "Storks"
Though Marvel had gained success and won over unbelievers with their ‘’cinematic universe’’ idea, DC, after the impressive success of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, proceeded to plummet and disappoint moviegoers with their needlessly dark, emotionless, and overly simplistic comic… Continue reading "Shazam!"