Archive for category: Reviews

  • Top Ten Movies Teens Haven’t Seen but Should See

    Top Ten Movies Teens Haven’t Seen but Should See

    City High, Movie Review, Reviews February 22, 2012 9:25 am no comments

    Let Me In By Della Nuno Vampires are a phase for teenagers-and god knows why. They’ve been around since the 1920’s, but they’ve never really gotten as much traction as they have circa 2011, when Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries took the world by storm. Alas, none are as [...]

     
  • The Hideaway: An Iowa City hideaway

    The Hideaway: An Iowa City hideaway

    Opinion, Reviews February 17, 2012 7:54 am no comments

    Tucked back in behind The Vine, there is a restaurant not known to many. A tavern and grill with a local flare, the Hideaway is a fairly new restaurant that has changed hands many times in the past. The Hideaway serves up delicious cheeseburgers topped with cheese from a local [...]

     
  • Superior Superheroes- Chronicle Movie Review

    Superior Superheroes- Chronicle Movie Review

    FEATURED, Movie Review, Opinion, Reviews February 6, 2012 3:56 pm 1 comment

    Found footage films have adopted a genre of their own. After the rapturous success of Blair Witch Project, then the mysterious viral campaign of Cloverfield, these movies have started to churn out weekend by weekend. Not all of these films find the Blair Witch success, though. Films like Quarantine or, [...]

     
  • My Week With Marilyn: Movie Review

    My Week With Marilyn: Movie Review

    Movie Review, Opinion, Reviews February 2, 2012 5:06 pm no comments

    Last year in cinema we were showered with the releases of bland movies and the occasional Oscar worthy film. As the end of 2011 drew near, the fear of no show stopping performances set in. That is until the world was introduced to My Week With Marilyn. The film is [...]

     
  • Come on, seriously?: War Horse review

    Come on, seriously?: War Horse review

    Reviews January 11, 2012 3:10 pm no comments

    The movies of yesterday are often respected for what they are: spectacles that are able to tell inspiring stories with a minimum use of technology and a maximum use of “epicness”, as the stoners of our generation might say. To this degree, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse absolutely succeeds, by using [...]

     
  • Hugo Movie Review

    Hugo Movie Review

    FEATURED, Reviews January 10, 2012 9:18 am no comments

    For the past 100 years, films have graced the presence of mankind in order to tell all kinds of stories that tickle the human brain. A time has now emerged where filmmaking is a technique that is old enough to look back on and appreciate. This is exactly what Martin [...]

     
  • An Exercise in Being Awful: Jack and Jill Review

    An Exercise in Being Awful: Jack and Jill Review

    Opinion, Reviews November 30, 2011 9:38 am 1 comment

    By Nat Alder Note: In lieu of giving a normal movie review, I’ve presented a no-holds barred, unflinching look at what is arguably the worst movie of the year. Enjoy! In movie history, for every good film released, there were 7 bad ones. It’s evident everywhere, the month of November [...]

     
 
 
 
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