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Red Hook Summer

It’s summer vacation for thirteen-year-old Silas Royale (played by Jules Brown), or Flik as he likes to be called, and instead of spending it at his house with his friends in Atlanta, he gets dumped by his mother at his grandfather’s two bedroom apartment in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. We’re never […]

For A Good Time, Call (A Small Review)

What’s it about? Lauren (played by Lauren Miller) is a brunette. She’s prim, she’s proper, she’s smart. She’s being kicked out of her apartment. Katie (played by Ari Graynor) is a blonde. She’s a bit of a wild child and she’s catty. She has a two bedroom apartment that she can no longer afford on her […]

Premium Rush (A Small Review)

What’s it about? Wilee (yes, like the coyote) is a New York bike messenger. He rides a fixed gear bike, and he doesn’t have any brakes because without brakes he has to be alert at all times. When he approaches an intersection at breakneck speed, as he’s wont to do, he can’t simply stop; he […]

The Campaign (A Small Review)

What’s it about? Cam Brady (played by Will Ferrell) had it all. He was the Congressman for North Carolina, he had an easy life full of power, prestige, and money, and he had a good family that supported him. He may have been a questionable leader at best, but every term he got reelected because no […]

Killer Joe

Things start off desperately in Killer Joe when local drug dealer Chris Smith (played by Emile Hirsch) finds himself owing six grand to his supplier. With no honest way of making that kind of money, he decides that the easiest and quickest solution is to hire a contract killer to off his mother for her […]

The Watch (A Small Review)

What’s it about? When a murder takes place in the suburbs of Glenview, Illinois, local do-gooder Evan Troutwig (played by Ben Stiller) starts a neighborhood watch to find the killer and protect his fellow citizens. He’s joined by three neighbors. There’s Bob (played by Vince Vaughn). He’s just your average suburbanite, married with a kid. […]

The Amazing Spider-Man

Early ads for The Amazing Spider-Man claimed that we were going to get “the untold story” this time. It was a major selling point and important one too since we were all wondering how this movie was going to be different from director Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spiderman movie (which I will refer to as Spiderman: Original […]