Picking Winners at the 85th Annual Academy Awards
Supporting Actress: Amy Adams: The Master Sally Field: Lincoln Anne Hathaway: Les Misérables Helen Hunt: The Sessions Jacki Weaver: Silver Linings Playbook William Altreuter: It often seems to me that...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic Park [1993]
“Spared no expense” Dinosaurs have captivated us for centuries—their bones dug up and reassembled in museums and theories about whether they’re descendants of reptiles or birds ebbing and flowing with...
View ArticleSummer Fun Film Festivals in WNY
With the dwindling numbers of drive-in theaters across the country, independent theaters finding it difficult to compete with huge chains, and the ever-fluctuating national box office needing too many...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic World [2015]
“This will give parents nightmares” As all good sequels must learn, the key to success is delivering on the promise set forth by the original while also providing something fresh and improved. Just ask...
View ArticleREVIEW: Swiss Army Man [2016]
“I don’t want to die alone” You can never be sure about a marketing campaign using a phrase like, “You’ve heard it a million times, but this time it’s true. You’ve never seen a movie like Swiss Army...
View ArticlePicking Winners at the 85th Annual Academy Awards
Supporting Actress: Amy Adams: The Master Sally Field: Lincoln Anne Hathaway: Les Misérables Helen Hunt: The Sessions Jacki Weaver: Silver Linings Playbook William Altreuter: It often seems to me that...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic Park [1993]
“Spared no expense” Dinosaurs have captivated us for centuries—their bones dug up and reassembled in museums and theories about whether they’re descendants of reptiles or birds ebbing and flowing with...
View ArticleSummer Fun Film Festivals in WNY
With the dwindling numbers of drive-in theaters across the country, independent theaters finding it difficult to compete with huge chains, and the ever-fluctuating national box office needing too many...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic World [2015]
“This will give parents nightmares” As all good sequels must learn, the key to success is delivering on the promise set forth by the original while also providing something fresh and improved. Just ask...
View ArticleREVIEW: Swiss Army Man [2016]
“I don’t want to die alone” You can never be sure about a marketing campaign using a phrase like, “You’ve heard it a million times, but this time it’s true. You’ve never seen a movie like Swiss Army...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Lost World: Jurassic Park [1997]
“So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years. That’s something.” It’s one thing for a movie to spawn a sequel for no other reason than money—especially at the Hollywood level where the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic Park III [2001]
“No force on Earth or Heaven could get me on that island” It’s almost ironic to discover David Koepp—screenwriter of the franchise’s previous two installments—was the one to think up the “simpler”...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [2018]
“They’re alive. Like me.” Anyone who read/watched Jurassic Park in the 1990s should have known the product of John Hammond’s hubris: a marriage between mankind’s extinction and evolution into something...
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