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By George Erlandson

This weekend I treated myself to the best movie ever: Expendables 2. Now I know what you’re thinking: “Wow, George has just lost all credibility as a movie critic.” No. Shut up. This movie is fantastic, as long as you know what you’re in for.

For those who are not familiar with this franchise, I can give you a ...

By Emily Francisco

Anxiety and excitement plague the minds of every fantasy or sci-fi fan whose favorite novel awaits adaptation into a film. The most recent fanbase to watch its series get a Hollywood makeover is none other than The Hunger Games.

The first in an epic trilogy, The Hunger Games is set in a dystopian version of North America called Panem. ...

By Jane Freeborn, Esq.

In times of joy, duress, or any less extreme emotion, I like to turn to film. It is perhaps the most powerful and certainly most populous art form we have (aside, obviously, from internet memes), and even people who don’t consider themselves film buffs or followers of popular culture have a favorite movie. Since the arrival en ...

By Jane Freeborn, Esq.

Had Wrath of the Titans been the greatest movie of our generation, I still wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much as its predecessor, Clash of the Titans. Were I Orson Welles, Wrath would be my Citizen Kane. I will spend my life trying to recreate the abject perfection of that film, but continue to be disappointed that ...

By Jayne Freeborne

I just didn’t care.

I wanted to, though, I really did. I went into Killer Elite looking for what I had heard was an enjoyable, well crafted action movie (thank you, Roger Ebert). What I found was an incomprehensible and self-serious excuse for grizzled men to drive boxy 1980s cars, blow things up and shoot each other, all in ...

By Jayne Freeborne 

The phrase ‘epic on a human scale’ gets bandied about fairly often in the film world. Or at least it did until someone realized it’s exceedingly pretentious and makes no sense. I suppose, however, that it can be the only colloquialism to truly describe Ben Sombogaart’s Bride Flight. Set in New Zealand in the 1950s, 60s and the ...

By Brian Engelsma

Nearly 16 years after its release, The Lion King continues to entertain generations of youth. Conventional wisdom has long held that the evil Scar, jealous of his new nephew Simba, usurped the monarchy and established a tyrannical rule based on authoritarian tendencies. But just how accurate is this interpretation of the film.

The character of Scar is far more ...

By Brian Engelsma

That’s right folks, it’s that time of year again. Oscar season has come in full force, and I’ve been busy the last few months handicapping the field and preparing for that night when James Franco and Anne Hathaway lead us through the last year in film. Below I’ve made my picks for many ...

By Audra Foster

A ballet may not seem like the most appropriate setting for a psychological thriller, but in the tenuous reality of Black Swan, it is the perfect breeding ground for dangerous obsession, throbbing sexual tension, and layers upon layers of hidden psychosis.

Everything starts with the naïve Nina Sayers, played by the incomparable Natalie Portman, as she auditions for and ...

By Liz Williams

Last weekend, CAB held its first movie night of the year, screening The Social Network on Friday and Saturday nights in The Junction. Directed by David Fincher, the 2010 film tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, as he developed and launched the wildly popular online social network during his time at Harvard.

College students ...