Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Emerald Fennell's 'Promising Young Woman' offers the viewer a bright beacon of light at the end of the long, dark cinematic tunnel of the past year or so.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 was great. It had lots of action and surprises. Like when Drago (voiced by Djimon Hounsou) was trying to capture dragons and hurt Hiccup’s family. It had a lot of action because the dragons were fighting and flying around and Stoick (voiced by Gerard Butler) was fighting Drago with swords. The action was fun to watch and it kept the story moving forward. There were no pa...[Read More]

There are many irritations in our modern world. However, whether you live in a loft, home, condo, or even an actual cave there is nothing as dreaded as having bad neighbors. That is the basic premise of the new film Neighbors from director Nicholas Stoller (whose previous credits start strong but fall off rather quickly: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Get Him to The Greek (2010), and The Five-Y...[Read More]

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]

I loved ParaNorman. It was a little scary, but I would still recommend it. I do not recommend it for children under eight years old and people who do not like scary movies. I definitely recommend bringing someone to cuddle with. The movie is a little unusual. ParaNorman is about a boy named Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is able to talk to ghosts. At first I did not understand the beginni...[Read More]

As the remake becomes more and more popular these days, you begin to hear people wonder why they are made in the first place when the original was fine to begin with. This tends to be a more prevalent discussion when people aren’t watching John Carpenter’s The Thing or the Coen Brothers’ True Grit, both of which have become praiseworthy adaptations made from movies that were already considered sup...[Read More]