Chloe Grace Moretz
Movie Review: Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Neighbors was a huge hit back in the summer of 2014 as it raked in over $270 million worldwide against a $18 million budget. A sequel was greenlit almost immediately and Universal hired most of the first film’s talent to return. Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Rose Bryne all star again in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, with Nick Stoller sitting in the director’s chair once more. Add in the talented Chlo...[Read More]
Movie Review: The 5th Wave
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]
Movie Review: The Equalizer
The Equalizer was an espionage television series that aired for four seasons on CBS from fall 1985 to spring 1989. It starred the late English actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a middle-aged retired intelligence officer with a mysterious past who used his skills to help people who were in trouble. The show took elements from popular spy films and private investigator shows and mixed them wit...[Read More]
Movie Review: Kick-Ass 2
After the events of the first Kick-Ass film, regular citizens, inspired by the action of the hero who shares a name with the film’s title, decide to don masks and fight for justice. Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has started a movement, and unfortunately, his work has also spawned the world’s first super-villain. Still reeling from his Mob Boss father’s death at the hands of Kic...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Unlikely Heroes Return in Kick-Ass 2
We’re most of the way through March, and that means the beginning of spring is (hopefully) just around the corner. But while we wait for the warmer weather, there are still new movie trailers for us to watch. This week’s Trailer Trashin’ looks at the red band first trailer for the offbeat superhero sequel Kick-Ass 2. Premise: After the insane bravery of Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Joh...[Read More]
Movie Review: Hugo
As I wipe away tears of exhausted joy, the sheer overwhelming beauty of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is just beginning to take shape as a solid, golden object of art that should come to be a classic film for children and adults in the same pantheon as The Wizard of Oz, The Red Balloon, and E.T. Scorsese has been leading up to the kind of picture that would serve as a personal summation of all of the rev...[Read More]