Baby Driver

Preview screenings are a blessing and a curse. The promise of seeing something before anyone else is so intoxicating that you almost always go, but as a result you can never be too sure on the quality of the product that is being used to entice you through the doors. So it was with some…

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

Robert Schwentke’s The Divergent Series: Allegiant is the third of four films in this series that thinly differs from The Hunger Games. This outing gives viewers their first taste of life outside the dystopian Chicago as Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James), Peter (Miles Teller), Christina (Zoë Kravitz) and Caleb (Ansel Elgort) find themselves outside…

On the Silver Screen – Insurgent

Robert Schwentke’s Insurgent is the second installment in The Divergent Series and continues the story that started in last year’s Divergent. The first film wasn’t good at all and if it weren’t for a friend wanting to see this I would have skipped this entirely due to how woefully uninspiring the overall premise is. In…

On the Silver Screen – Men, Women & Children

Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children offers commentary on the role of digital communication in the lives of a group of parents and their children as they try to navigate their various relationships. This is probably the right time for a film like this to come out given the modern world’s reliance and addiction to…

On the Silver Screen – The Fault In Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars tells the story of two young cancer sufferers who meet at a cancer support group and fall in love. There’s more to the story than that but that’s the basic jist. Shailene Woodley plays Hazel Grace Lancaster, a young woman who has been unfortunate in her life and was diagnosed…