CinemaFunk: Ruby Sparks
Although still revered for his great American novel nearly ten years prior, Calvin (Paul Dano) has been struggling with new material, especially after his previous girlfriend left him. After a few...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: The Bourne Legacy
Billed as a new chapter in the Bourne series, The Bourne Legacy takes audiences further down the rabbit hole that Jason Bourne had opened in The Bourne Ultimatum. While missing the wit and relentless...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: ParaNorman
Talented computer wizards have been pumping out fantastic animated films using the latest computer-aided technologies for almost two decades now, but it is certainly a pleasure to see stop-motion, the...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: Celeste and Jesse Forever
The question of whether men and women can truly be just friends is a deep one, and has been portrayed in cinema increasingly over the years. Celeste and Jesse Forever continues the cinematic...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: Robot and Frank
Developed countries accepted and faltered with mechanization during the first half of the 20th century, and the same is happening with digitization. As technology begins to both assist and complicate...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: The Words
The world is much smaller than we think, which makes plagiarism a constant threat to authors who produce original and dishonest work. The Words explores one writer’s struggle to make it as a writer,...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: Looper
If you had a choice to murder an infamous dictator long before they became the villainous person that he or she became, would you do it? Looper does not just consider this question, it wades in it....
View ArticleCinemaFunk: Here Comes the Boom
Boxing is as American as apple pie, and so are budget cuts in public schools. Here Comes the Boom portrays a lethargic teacher’s literal fight for the sake of keeping an essential music department at...
View ArticleCinemaFunk: Wreck-It Ralph
The video game industry has become a $25 billion dollar industry, but its inherent features share all but one element with cinema, how the spectator interacts with the medium. That does not matter in...
View ArticleMOVIE REVIEW: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’
I set my clock for “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” today and the result was alarming. They are not monkeying around this time. The post MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ appeared first on...
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