Moonlight (2016)
Moonlight – A film is skillful when it can invoke great emotions from its audience. Moonlight is equally skillful in pushing the audience until they feel numb. This is an artful depiction of life...
Author: Jake Landau
Sing (2016)
Sing – Some movies try to do so many different things they can never complete anything. Today, that movie is Sing. It has never been a new concept to cram together an ensemble of...
La La Land (2016) – Review
La La Land – It is not often that one might find themselves crying in the movie theater, but it is acceptable when one has found good reason. La La Land is the most beautiful...
Shin Godzilla
The merit of Shin Godzilla as a film is that it exceeds the genre in remarkable form. That isn’t to say that Shin Godzilla is not in the possession of its own quirks or blemishes. Rather, it...
Now You See Me 2
This film is called Now You See Me 2; Once the movie started, I wished it was called No, I Didn’t. Starring many Hollywood A-list actors who realized they needed another million dollars, this sequel to the 2013 box...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is like a surgeon took an Olympics-level athlete and shuffled around their internal organs for kicks. Everything that is there should be there, but some of the organs are missing,...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
After ten years of waiting, The Force Awakens brings new life to the franchise, although hampered by some key flaws. Derivative of A New Hope, The Force Awakens is one-third playing it safe, one-third an idling car, and one-third...
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
In the previews plastered all over television, Aidan Gillen’s character tells our heroes that they “won’t last one day out in the Scorch.” After seeing Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, it’s a given that...
Fantastic Four (2015)
Updated with score in 2022 Imagine if a worse David Cronenburg and 20th Century Fox conceived a child, and Cronenburg got left alone with the baby, but while he was supposed to be watching...
Terminator Genisys
Edited to add score in 2022 Terminator Genisys is so focused on referencing the first two Terminator movies that it forgets to be a good film in it’s own right. Beyond the initial layer of robot...