Authors: Jimmy Martin
Review: Pixels
How I miss the days when I would walk into a theater with a beaming smile to see an Adam Sandler movie—Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer. … read more
Review: Straight Outta Compton
It’s been nearly 30 years since Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella and MC Ren banded together and created N.W.A and became one of the greatest rap groups to date. … read more
Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
My first experience in a movie theater was for a screening of Return of the Jedi. The original trilogy regularly played on my television, I wore a different Star Wars shirt to school every day for weeks and obsessively collected the action figures. So, you can imagine my reaction to the first prequel in 1999 as not being favorable, but let’s not get into that. … read more
Review: Cooties
At times, I can’t tell whether Cooties directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion were offering a raunchy black comedy or a serious zombie flick. … read more
Review: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
The Scorch Trials begins exactly where the last one ended, and Thomas and friends find themselves in an eerie lockdown fortress where something is amiss. … read more
Review: The Perfect Guy
You could see that last one coming a mile away. That’s it. Everything about this production screams amateur hour. … read more
Review: The Visit
The film is only 94 minutes long, but, aside from a few cheap scare tactics, nothing really happens for the initial 80 minutes. … read more
Review: The 33
Anyone alive in 2010 most likely remembers the mining accident that occurred on Aug. 5, 2010, which buried 33 miners 2,300 feet underground and trapped them down there for 69 days. … read more
Review: The Night Before
In the vein of cult favorites like Bad Santa and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, Jonathan Levine’s holiday adventure lets the children sleep all snug in their beds while the adults drink, smoke weed and get all screwed up in their heads. … read more
Review: The Peanuts Movie
Ever since the trailer for The Peanuts Movie was released, I have been dying to see the late Charles M. Schulz’s creations in 3D animation on the big screen. … read more
Review: Trumbo
Refusing to succumb to peer pressure, Trumbo and the Hollywood 10 were sentenced to prison, but they fired back by working underground under pseudonyms. … read more
Review: Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak Director: Guillermo del Toro Universal In Theaters: 10.16 In a time where horror films have ultimately resulted in the umpteenth found-footage night-vision recording where nothing really happens, it’s a delight to have the opportunity to enjoy a well-crafted thriller developed by a skillful director. Guillermo del Toro transports viewers to the past and engulfs
