After the massive success of The Hungers Games, movie studios have been trotting out what they believe will be the next big film adaptation of a young adult novel. Specifically, they are looking to capitalize on female driven stories that are either post-apocalyptic or fantasy. From The Mortal Instruments to the Divergent franchise these films have failed both financially and …

13 Hours may just be Michael Bay’s best recent film, but considering Bay’s track record this is not high praise. The film is functional and clearly designed to pick at our nation’s the still-fresh scars from the attack on our embassy in Benghazi, but overall it lacks heart and cohesive visual storytelling. The film focuses on a group of private …

A truly great film works on multiple levels. With each viewing you notice newness within the frame that you had not seen before. This is not to say that great films need be complicated. Anomalisa itself is quite simple, but its beauty is in its simplicity. The latest film by Charlie Kaufman, with co-director Duke Johnson, is stop-motion animation using …

Beyond blatant social and political flubs, one of the worst offenses a film can commit is assuming its audience is made up entirely of idiots. Films that talk down to the audience, or over explain the plot, feel like having a conversation with a person who is certain they are smarter than you and want you to know it. They …

House party movies will never go away. From my generation’s Can’t Hardly Wait, to the millennials’ Project X, watching a house full of teens let loose their angst and indulge their hormones will always have an audience. What we rarely see is a reunion, as adults, throwing an equally epic house party. Old School hinted at the arrested development in …