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By Audra Foster

Despite the pseudo-sexual undertones in the title, How to Train Your Dragon was perfectly kid-friendly, with enough spice to appeal to an older crowd (although I admit I may have been the oldest in the theater, not counting harried parents). It was also, in my eyes, a perfect movie. I could have watched it again immediately after I ...

By Nate Storey

When the lights dimmed for the showing of Crazy Heart I attended, I noticed that I was the youngest person in the theatre on a Friday night by about 30 years.  Normally, a story that starts this way would only go downhill from there.  But Crazy Heart defied the trepidation that had set in because of the audience ...

By Josh Carmel and Audra Foster

While the predominant Oscar haze furnished by James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino may have eclipsed the scintillating cinematic brilliance of those films qualified as “Animated Shorts,” the lucid tinctures of emotion, both humorous and melancholy, and the acerbic tendrils of sarcasm that the latter provide, can never be disputed.

Going to see a film, in any ...

By Nate Storey

Like all LOST fan(atic)s, I was ecstatic about the coming final season, though this excitement was fraught with worry and hesitancy.  I worried of course about whether the writers would be able to make it satisfactory.  Will we get the answers to our questions (both big and small)?  Will they be able to wrap up all the loose ...

By Brian Englesma

While most Gettysburgians were wallowing in self-pity over the latest batch of snow, I was embarking on an adventure. Busting loose from a snow bank I made my way to the movie theater to enjoy a feature length film. For an evening of this variety there was only one choice: Tooth Fairy.

Unlike my last voyage to the theater, ...

By Audra Foster

The Road was a pleasantly cheerful and comedic movie about a man and his son as they search for food and safety in a post apocalyptic world. The entire movie is really nothing more than a giggly romp through such events as hiding in underground bomb shelters to avoid cannibals, and hunting for ...

By Sebastian DiNatale

Pirate Radio is one of the few comedies that can actually deliver a solid 90 minutes of hilarious scenarios and dialogue with virtually no constructed plotline. Unlike director Richard Curtis’ other British comedy masterpiece Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pirate Radio offers a very basic set-up where the characters, environment, and conflicts are all apparent within the first ...

By Nate Storey

The last film of Heath Ledger’s career. The newest film directed by the unique and distinctive Terry Gilliam. A film that was almost shut down following Ledger’s death, but saved by the inclusion of three new actors to play one part. These are the things I knew about The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

when I walked into the theatre. ...

By Audra Foster

The Sherlock Holmes Movie Poster

What is it about the whole ‘fallen hero’ archetype that so appeals to the American masses? We love to see Batman suffer internally as he protects Gotham, and watch as an aged Indiana Jones stumbles around on a screen, and gawk as Captain Kirk gets his ass kicked in a bar brawl. Gone are ...

By Kyle Lawson

There are very few movies that could take an issue like the reversion therapy programs that aim to turn gay people straight by brainwashing them and forcing what is essentially celibacy and guilt onto them, and make it fabulous. Somehow, director Jamie Babbit finds a way in But I’m a Cheerleader.

The movie is about Megan, played by Natasha ...