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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

By Mike Grass On March 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Despite playing not a small part in the almighty success of The Avengers back in 2012, there seems to be a recurring opinion among film audiences that Captain America is the most boring of Marvel’s superhero bunch. Lacking the distinctive powers of his teammates and dressed up in the American flag, it’s not difficult to […]

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A Batch of Reviews #2

By Travis Babcock On March 28, 2014 · 1 Comment

Oldboy

the year: 2013
the directing: Spike Lee
the writing: Mark Protosevich
the acting: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley

Is it commonplace nowadays to go into a film knowing you’re not going to like it? Park Chan-wook’s South Korean original set the bar so incredibly high the only way left was down. Fortunately, or […]

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A Batch of Reviews #1

By Travis Babcock On February 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Ender’s Game

the directing: Gavin Hood
the writing: Gavin Hood
the acting: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld

I really held no interest for this film during its promotional stage. I haven’t read the book and it looked like Hollywood was just trying to cash in again. Then it came out and murmurs […]

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Dr. Strangelove

By Travis Babcock On February 4, 2014 · Leave a Comment

How to start this? There was some thought of treating it like a stereotypical college essay, beginning with a word and quoting the definition.

timeless – “not affected by the passage of time or changes in fashion.”

But doing that seemed like the amateur move, so I thought better of it. There is this weird […]

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300

By Travis Babcock On January 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment

the year: 2006
the directing: Zack Snyder
the writing: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad & Michael B. Gordon
the acting: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Michael Fassbender

Can you believe it’s been eight years since this film’s come out? I was just starting high school… in case you were interested. 300 was […]

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

By Travis Babcock On January 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Twenty-four years ago The Hunt for Red October made its release, with the hopes of creating an established franchise, while boosting Alec Baldwin’s career that much further. Then came Harrison Ford with his gruff manliness, completing not one but two films within the Jack Ryan series (Ford’s career had already been boosted as far as […]

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RoboCop

By Travis Babcock On January 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment

the year: 1987
the directing: Paul Verhoeven
the writing: Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner
the acting: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Kurtwood Smith

1980’s, what a fast time for film. Many of the best cult classics still alive and well saw their creation in that decade. I see now why RoboCop would be at […]