Movie Review: ‘Rogue One’ Puts The War Back In Star Wars
If you liked the original Star Wars movies but found the pluck of the rebel alliance fighting against the evil empire a little too cheery, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story may be [...]
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Movie Review: ‘Loving’ Quietly Tells Historic Story Of Interracial Marriage
Jeff Nichols’ Loving is one of those rare films where the trailer screams how it will be viewed as an “important historical drama” destined for recognition [...]
Movie Review: ‘Friday Night Lights’ Finally Explains High School Sportsball To Me
Throughout these retro reviews of sports movies, I have stated how I am more of a fan of these films than of the sports they celebrate, and I feel the need to bring that up [...]
Movie Review: Bloated Yet Bombastic, ‘Any Given Sunday’ Still Scores
Now that we’re firmly in football season, let’s revisit one of those sportsball movies which is always running when you turn the TV box on: Oliver Stone’s epic (and [...]
Movie Review: ‘Masterminds’ Is Clean, Mass-Market Carolina Campiness
A film critic colleague of mine made the apt observation that Masterminds is one of those rare comedies funnier than what you see in the trailer. I would further add that the [...]
Silversun Pickups Releases Video For ‘Latchkey Kids,’ Their Latest Great Rock Song You’ve Never Heard
Now 16 years and five albums in, two conclusions are indisputable: Silversun Pickups no longer qualifies as a new band, and the quartet from Los Angeles isn’t going [...]
Celluloid Scoreboard: Smilin’ Tom Uses Little Cruise Control In ‘Days Of Thunder’
Among non-athletes like myself, there has always been the debate over if NASCAR driving should be considered a sport. I know to some this may seem like heresy, as there is a [...]
Celluloid Scoreboard: ‘Varsity Blues’ Is High School Sportball At Its Silly And Balletic Best
For some sports are a religion, and nowhere is that cliché better explored on film than through Brian Robbins’ 1999 ode to high school football Varsity Blues. This is [...]
Celluloid Scoreboard: War Is Not Romantic In ‘Anthropoid’
Films about World War II are sometimes hard to watch and even more difficult to review. On the one hand you don’t want to minimize the all-too-real sacrifices actual [...]
Celluloid Scoreboard: ‘Meatballs’ Stuffs Itself On Summer Camp Hijinks And Juvenile Competition
Summer camps attract a different kind of individual, both in terms of who attends and works at them. Having been both a Boy Scout who spent several teenage weeks away from [...]