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The Start of Something Beautiful: My Relationship with MoviePass

I just got my MoviePass card in the mail this weekend, and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m going to be seeing a lot of movies over the course of the next year thanks to this little card. Nic, what the heck are you talking about? What is MoviePass, and how does it let you […]

The World’s End is here! The World’s End is here!

Or at the least the trailer is. I just watched it and am considerably geeked out. It looks great, right in line with the kind of work that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have brought us in the past. I’m talking about 2004’s Shaun of the Dead and 2007’s Hot Fuzz. I loved both movies for bending genres […]

What I’m Watching at Home: Bellflower

**This review ended up turning more into a discussion than a review. I don’t give anything significant away, but it’s more than I would want to know about it if I hadn’t seen it. So, read at your own discretion.**   Bellflower opens with a man (Woodrow) hugging a blonde woman (Milly). She’s crying, his […]

Christopher Nolan’s Next Adventure

Hey everyone, be quiet. I’ve got some great news. Christopher Nolan is directing a new film. It’s called Interstellar and it’s science fiction and it stars one Matthew McConaughey.  So far all we know about the premise is that it features “a heroic interstellar voyage to the furthest reaches of our scientific understanding.” Not much to […]

Oblivion

  This past weekend I had planned on seeing a movie called The Wall (Die Wand in German) as part of FilmFest DC 2013, Washington DC’s annual celebration of foreign films. It was about a woman who finds herself cut off from civilization when an invisible wall suddenly surrounds her as she’s hiking through the […]

My Movie Wishlist: The Way Way Back

What’s it about? “Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park’s managers.” —IMDB Who made it? Written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.   Who’s in it? Steve Carrell, Sam Rockwell, Amanda Peet, Toni Collette, Maya Rudolph, […]

Joss Whedon Doesn’t Save Anything For The Trip Back

I mentioned in my review of Cabin in the Woods (here) that I’m a Joss Whedon fan. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel are two of my most favorite shows of all time. Nowadays most of his fame comes from having written and directed The Avengers. I wouldn’t say it’s his best work—in fact I would go so far as to say […]