Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Gambler is an incredible, emotionally transformative experience… for me, personally. It is difficult to say how anyone else will react. The title character, Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), is entropy incarnate. He enters the film already several thousand dollars in debt to … Continue reading →

When real life is more interesting than its fictional adaptation, that fiction has a big problem. Unbroken tells the least interesting parts of the very interesting true story of Louie Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), an Olympic distance runner who joined the Army Air … Continue reading →

Into the Woods is an awful movie. Well, it could just be an awful musical. The story is set around an unnamed baker (James Cordon) and his wife (Emily Blunt). The baker is sterile because of a curse set by the … Continue reading →

The Interview is at the center of a developing international story with multiple players and several layers of morality. The hackers and terrorists are 100 percent in the wrong, but they’re the only ones whose ethical standing is clear. The film, … Continue reading →

12:19 a.m. After a particularly long set of previews that seem to be actively trying to delay the inevitable, The Hobbit’s 10 minute parade of logos begins. The Battle of Five Armies picks up right where Desolation of Smaug left off — just before it was going … Continue reading →