Using the overtly stylized, CGI-heavy parameters created by the director **Zack Snyder**’s “300” back in 2007, “300: Rise of an Empire,” which is produced and co-written by Snyder, tells a broader story about the Greco-Persian Wars. Where the first film mainly covered the Battle of Thermopylae, where King Leonidas led ...
For **Patrick Tubach**, who graduated from Baker University in 1996, this Sunday won’t be his first trip down the red carpet for the Academy Awards ceremony, but it will be his first time as a nominee. “I think everyone gets excited about seeing the celebrities, and that’s absolutely a fun ...
The 86th Academy Awards are almost upon us and next Sunday, March 2, Hollywood will hand out Oscars to its best and brightest while 225 countries and territories worldwide watch the televised broadcast. This year, we’re giving you a chance to win prizes by playing our [Beat the Critic contest][1]. ...
I guess the best thing you can say about the new action movie **“3 Days to Kill,”** starring **Kevin Costner** as a grizzled old CIA hitman living in Paris, is that the 59-year-old actor has more charm and better comic timing now than Bruce Willis. Costner is essentially playing the ...
I’ll admit it: the thought of Hollywood remaking a violent, scrappy, go-for-broke hard-R satire like **Paul Verhoeven**’s 1987 classic “RoboCop” into a PG-13 movie really boiled my blood. For those who haven’t seen the original recently, I dare you to revisit it again. You may have forgotten how hateful and ...
Retro fashion and style trends are circular, which is why the best filmic versions of the future contain some element of the past. Writer/director **Spike Jonze**’s "Her," opening this weekend at [Liberty Hall][1], takes place in the near future, where modern skyscraper architecture mixes with warm, '50s-atomic-age interiors. Wool, high-waisted ...
As most of the Oscar-nominated movies hang around in theaters hoping to catch filmgoers who are checking off their awards lists, Hollywood’s annual early-year counter-programming has begun. Hoping to fill the “edgy” rom-com void a couple of weeks before Valentine’s Day is **“That Awkward Moment,”** a movie that’s supposed to ...
"Nebraska" quietly earned itself a surprising six Oscar nominations last week (including one for best picture and best director), while more obvious Oscar bait like "Saving Mr. Banks" and "Lee Daniels' The Butler" struggled, coming up with one (for its score) and zero nominations respectively. It opens at Liberty Hall ...
There are few film franchises as muddled and confusing as the Jack Ryan action series, which Paramount resurrects today with **Chris Pine** in the starring role in **“Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.”** In 1992’s “Patriot Games,” Harrison Ford played retired CIA agent Ryan, who in Tom Clancy’s novel is actually younger ...
The first time I saw **“Inside Llewyn Davis,”** opening today at [Liberty Hall][1], my reaction was completely one-dimensional. The movie — which follows one key week in the life of singer/couch-surfer Llewyn Davis (**Oscar Issac**) as he bounces around the pre-Dylan 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene — seemed to be ...
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