The dynamic partnership of director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost has kept audiences laughing ever since the release of 2002's horror-comedy Shaun of the Dead. Their unique brand of genre satire and sharply written jokes was followed up with 2007's buddy-cop satire Hot Fuzz.
This year, they have done it again with The World's End. In...
Synopsis: In a dystopian future, teens are forced into an arena to fight to the death in order to portray the control the government has over the lower classes. This sequel to the first Hunger Games begins by showing the aftermath of the last bloodbath and how the winners, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Melark (Josh Hutcherson), have...
“Breaking Bad isn’t a show, it’s a religion” –Pierce Durham. Sunday saw the greatest TV series of my generation come to a close, and it is only right that we spend a moment to examine the last episode.
Felina, the title of the final episode, set out to “tie up loose ends,” and did precisely that. With the money left...
In A Good Day to Die Hard, John McClane (Bruce Willis) and his newly introduced son Jack McClane (Jai Courtney) team up to try and prevent a fictional nuclear disaster. In the process, however, they create something much worse: a cinematic disaster.
The original Die Hard (1988) still towers over the huge majority of action movies made because of the...
If you’ve ever scrolled through your TV guide on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday nights, you might’ve seen a show called “Duck Dynasty” on A&E. One may assume it’s a hunting show, but would be completely wrong. The creators of “Duck Dynasty” managed not only to form a great reality show, but also a comedic view of the Robertson family...
This past Friday, May 4, was a notable one to cinephiles for multiple reasons – most importantly as the U. S. release of Joss Whedon and Marvel’s four-years-in-the-making superhero film, The Avengers. However, there is a smaller, typically less publicized (and less festive) event that has occurred on this date for the past several years – May 4 has...
It is fairly common for Hollywood to release at least a few films each year about, well, films. Possibly nothing is more characteristic of American cinema than its frequent vanity-driven practice of looking at itself in the mirror, praising itself for bringing “magic” to the masses.
Occasionally, however, there comes a movie that takes a significant step back and really...
Today, Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Jesuit’s Not for Sale Club will be screening The Dark Side of Chocolate in Hughes Hall. This film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano is a documentary about the illegal use of child slaves who are trafficked to the Ivory Coast for the gathering and selling of cocoa beans.
Luckily, we live in Dallas,...
