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Prisoners

Brilliant, shocking, gripping, mind-blowing, freaky, nerve-wracking, intense, and redemptive are all excellent reasons why you should see this movie. At a whopping two hours and fifteen minute run time, I was completely entranced in the story from start to finish, never actually realizing how long I had been sitting there. From the opening scene, I […]

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Fruitvale Station

As an almost perfectly true story of Oscar Grant III (Michael B. Jordan),  Fruitvale Station follows him in a short review of his recent past with the law, his future goals as a new family man, and the devastating tragedy of the last day of his life. Surrounding the celebration of New Year’s Eve of […]

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The Great Gatsby

I honestly and completely tried to watch this movie as an objective party. As an English Major in college it is terrifyingly difficult to repress the bias I have towards F. Scott Fistzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Don’t misunderstand me, even as a novel, I hated it. My sentiments have usually been that Fitzgerald is a […]

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