89th Annual Academy Awards: The Winners

Hey everyone!  Last night we saw the 89th Annual Academy Awards as they recognized the best and brightest in the world of film for 2016.  This will run down our predictions and all the winners for the night's festivities.  Check out the winner below and drop a comment with how your predictions compared!

Movie Review: LA LA LAND

A quick Google search will find hundreds upon hundreds of positive La La Land reviews. This review will be written from a bit more personal of a perspective. The last thing I want to do is spoil a single moment of this movie for you as it slowly cycles through its limited release. So, instead of just discussing the technical achievements and directorial triumphs of La La Land, since we’re all part of one big movie-loving family, I’d like to take you through the evening where I discovered (dare I say it) one of my favorite movies of all time.

Movie Review: WHIPLASH (A Retrospective)

Whiplash is a 2014 Best Picture nominee with a performance by the Best Supporting Actor winner of 2014, J.K. Simmons. The film is directed by Damien Chazelle and, in light of the upcoming release of his wildly critically exalted film La La Land, I will be taking a look back at this other directorial effort. The film stars Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, and Mellissa Benoist. It follows the story of a young drummer who gets an opportunity and endures a punishing music instructor dead set on making him one of the greats.

Side By Side: BLACK SWAN vs. WHIPLASH

Welcome to another installment of SIDE BY SIDE, where we dissect the differences and similarities between two films, be it a remake/reboot with its original, a sequel with its original, or two similar movies. This week, however, we are taking a bit of a different approach by comparing two seemingly completely different films by two different directors, but both films hold several similarities and these two films are Darren Aronofsky's BLACK SWAN and Damien Chazelle's WHIPLASH.