Ansel Elgort
Movie Review: West Side Story
Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" is an indelible, new version of a timeless classic that is not only true to the source material but is also unparalleled.
Movie Review: The Goldfinch
Despite stellar performances from Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley, and Jeffrey Wright, The Goldfinch proves to be just too melancholy in a very meandering fashion.
Movie Review: Baby Driver
Baby Driver is a fun movie that does not disappoint. Ansel Elgort stars as Baby, and he is captivating. The character is very eccentric, having been in a car accident that resulted in both his mother and father’s death, he is left with a ringing in his ears that forces him to constantly listen to music with earbuds. He develops an almost savant-like accuracy as a driver with the help of his noise-...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone, is based on the mega-popular and New York Times best seller by John Green. The story is narrated by 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a cancer patient with thyroid cancer; which spreads to her lungs, who falls in love with amputee Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), a 17-year-old boy recovering from Osteosarcoma. Once meeting Augustus...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Another Crack at Teen-Lit Jackpot in Divergent
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope you all enjoyed your long Labor Day weekend. Now that the end-of-August releases have landed with their customary thud, we can leave the summer movie season behind and look forward to the fall and winter releases. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ takes a look at the first teaser for the upcoming sci-fi book adaptation Divergent. Pr...[Read More]