Reviews

Fury (2014)

It’s April 1945. The war is almost over and the Allies are making their final push into battle-torn Germany. Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) commands a tank nicknamed “Fury” and its veteran crew. These men have all been together since the North African Campaign two years earlier, so they’re brothers in arms, ready to fight until the bitter end. Private […]

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5 of the Best Coming-of-Age Films

We had Stand By Me and The Breakfast Club in the ’80s and Dazed and Confused in the ’90s, and yes they are great coming-of-age films, but is there really any need to keep reminding you of that in every film list over and over again? So, I’ve decided to select some alternate choices. I have always strongly connected with coming-of-age […]

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Indignation (2016): Quiet and Poignant Explosion

Indignation is an adaptation of Phillip Roth’s novel of the same name, a quaint snapshot of 1950s life. It tells the story of Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a young man from a Jewish family, who leaves home to attend Winesburg, a Christian college in Ohio. There, he tries to distance himself from the spiritual community, as […]

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Stuck in Love (2012): Bad Title But Good Film

The feeble title of Josh Boone’s indie romantic-comedy will be enough to turn a lot of people’s heads the other way, but Stuck in Love is a charming story about a family of writers, who experience the different shades of love. Novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear), is going through a mid-life crisis and still pining after his […]

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

The Perks of Being Wallflower follows Charlie (Logan Lerman), who has just started his freshman year of High School. Socially awkward and isolated, he befriends a group of older kids, who embrace they’re status as outsiders. The film focuses on Charlie’s experiences of the pitfalls and melodrama of adolescence, along with his newfound friends, which includes […]

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