Alexander Wolff

Often, films tend to look at life in a positive light, treating it as being filled with joy and happiness. Then, there are films like the new thriller Thoroughbreds which proves to be an odd character study, that’s also a dark and edgy, yet somehow fun, ride.

It feels so odd to have an Angry Birds film in 2016. It was an app, whose target audience was supposedly children, created in 2009 and, by 2012, it had sold 12 million copies. Throughout the years, there have been many variations of the app, but the main point of the game always dealt with angry birds and shooting those same birds at some sort of target. Now, ten years later, is the feature-length...[Read More]

No matter what, religion is always going to be interesting debate in any form of an adaption. That’s why biblical films are hard to make and why we have so few. The Passion of the Christ (2004) was a film about the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus which was marked by much controversy due its violent and graphic themes. A different kind of biblical film was The Prince of Egypt (1998), a...[Read More]

We give all this praise to war veterans and current members of the military, as we rightfully should, but we seem to forget about other parts of our military. We don’t seem to talk about African Americans or women in the service, or even a little thing like all the medical workers taking care of all of our service members oversees. The new documentary, The Luft Gangster: Memoirs of Second Cl...[Read More]

A lot of film trends can be found in Hollywood nowadays but films set in dystopian societies that are based on young adult novels are something else. First, you had The Hunger Games in 2012 setting the standard for these films. Next, and both coming out in 2014, were Divergent and The Maze Runner to add to the trend. Both very similar films, even though The Maze Runner was a bit more original. Thi...[Read More]

It made sense that we got the buddy cop film Ride Along (2014) starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. A film for them to work off such different personalities; they always seemed like a perfect duo. Coming from director Tim Story, who should be most remembered for making one of the few misses in the Marvel Universal with Fantastic Four (2004), Ride Along was such an unoriginal ride that it wasted both ...[Read More]