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Kansas First News Movie Review: 50/50
This review originally appeared on KTKA-TV and KSNT-TV, Kansas First News. In “50/50,” Seth Rogen plays the best friend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a 27-year old man who is diagnosed with cancer. The...
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Michelle Williams Recreates Marilyn Monroe
There are people in this world who are larger than life — whose presence beams with an aura. Through a remarkable performance and some skilled period art direction, one such movie star is recreated in...
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It’s a Very Guy Ritchie Holiday Season with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows extends Guy Ritchie‘s film franchise, which re-envisions the tales of that brilliant British detective. True to the Holmes stories of old, a Game of Shadows is a...
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Overlooked Movie: Ben Wheatley’s ‘Down Terrace’
Director Ben Wheatley’s been getting an awful lot of attention lately. With all the good buzz surrounding his latest movie Kill List, which came out in limited release this month, and the slate of...
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SIFF Exclusive: Welcome To Pine Hill
Warren Cantrell reviews a new indie film from the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival: It’s usually hard for a critic to use a heavy hand when reviewing the work of an innovative filmmaker,...
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Now Neeson’s Wife Has Been ‘Taken 2′
This review originally appeared in shorter form on KSNT-NBC, KTKA-ABC, and KTMJ-FOX, Kansas First News. One year after her best friend died from a forced drug overdose at the hands of the men who...
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‘Alex Cross’ Fails on Every Level
Alex Cross is a bad movie that aspires to be a mediocre movie, only to fail even at that modest goal — in spectacular fashion. Based on the series of novels by James Patterson, Tyler Perry stars as a...
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Daniel Day-Lewis Shines in Limited-Scope ‘Lincoln’
Steven Spielberg’s newest holiday Oscar-bait project, Lincoln, suffers under the burden of its own ambitious pretensions, for what it offers up in the acting department is often sabotaged by jagged...
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‘Life of Pi’ is Expert Visual Storytelling
Check out videos of all my movie reviews on KSNT-NBC, KTKA-ABC, and KTMJ-FOX, Kansas First News. A new movie based on the 2001 international bestseller by Yann Martel hits theaters today and is one of...
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Tom Hooper Fails ‘Les Misérables’
If fans of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s musical Les Misérables can go into Tom Hooper’s film adaptation looking for little more than a music video showcase of the songs of Les Mis, they...
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Sundance 2013: ‘Halley’ Movie Review
Thoughtful, quiet movies without much dialogue or action are difficult to pull off, as they challenge audiences to draw connections and deeper meaning out of subtle clues inserted via visual and...
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Sundance 2013: ‘Concussion’ Movie Review
Concussion is a film about a New York wife and mother who suffers a little head trauma, an injury that leads her to a stunning realization: she doesn’t much care for her life, and wants to try...
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#4 Raging Bull (1980)
For 1 Year, 100 Movies, contributor/filmmaker Trey Hock is watching all of AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Movies list (compiled in 2007) in one year. His reactions to each film are recorded here twice a week...
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Sundance 2013: ‘Jiseul’ Movie Review
A person has to tip their hat to a filmmaker who comes to the States, to the Sundance Film Festival, and presents a movie that straight-up indicts the U.S. government for a largely forgotten act of...
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Eric Talks ‘Warm Bodies’ on KCTV5
Here’s me on the KCTV5 It’s Your Morning show talking about the time I spent as a zombie extra on Warm Bodies, along with clips from the movie. My journal about the experience is here at Lawrence.com...
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True/False Fest: ‘Leviathan’ and ‘Winter Go Away!’
This post is part three in a series covering the 2013 True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri. See all posts from this year’s True/False here. Leviathan Leviathan is the most metal documentary you...
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The Scene-Stealers Movie Podcast 85: ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation,’‘The Host’ and more
Hey-o! A late post for the podcast this week. Sorry about that. This week, Trey talks The Host, while Trevan and Eric talk G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Gatekeepers. Lastly, Eric takes on On The Road...
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KC FilmFest 2013: ‘It’s A Disaster’
Brunch. Once the lazy man’s mid-day breakfast, it’s now become the get-together of choice for the young and hip to catch up over mimosas and waffles. But if your social circle even remotely resembles...
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A Bloated, Ugly, and Irresponsible Adaption of ‘The Great Gatsby’
F. Scott Fitzgerald opens his novel The Great Gatsby with the following passage. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever...
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The Scene-Stealers Movie Podcast 94: ‘Now You See Me’ and ‘After Earth
This week, Alan Rapp subs for Trey to talk about After Earth with Trevan and Now You See Me with Eric. The boys also talk about their favorite things for the week, which include the latest season of...
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