“To love another person is to see the face of God.” -Jean Valjean Victor Hugo’s classic story of Jean Valjean seeking redemption against his pursuer Javert in the midst of a revolution is a powerful one that has already been adapted to film and the stage many times over the last fifty years. Academy Award…
Category: Film Reviews – Written
An archive of my film reviews across all publications.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Review
” I know you doubt me. I know you always have. I often think of Bag End. That’s where I belong. That’s home. You don’t have one. It was taken from you, but I will help you get it back if I can.” -Bilbo Baggins The making of the Hobbit is a story to tell in…
Rise of the Guardians Review
It’s almost Christmas time and with each new season comes its own slew of Christmas themed movies. Some years we’re treated to a retelling of the classics like A Christmas Carol, Elf, or Home Alone while other years we’re tortured by painfully awful cash-ins like Fred Claus and Deck the Halls. This year the Christmas…
Breaking Dawn Part 2 Review
*I’ll get this out of the way. I am not a fan of this series and I have not liked any of the movies thus far. While I thought that Eclipse was actually pretty solid from a production standpoint I simply cannot come around to the series because of the absurdly bad story, cardboard cutout…
Wreck-It Ralph Review
“It’s hard to love your job, when no one else seems to like you for doing it…” -Wreck-It Ralph What happens to video games whenever they are turned off or shut down? Wreck-It Ralph is Disney’s latest venture into big screen animation that explores this question every first generation gamer asked when they were a…
Cloud Atlas Review
“Our lives and our choices, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Yesterday my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Fear, belief, love, phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue long after we perish. Yesterday, I believe I…
Argo Review
“This is the best bad idea we have sir…by far” -Jack O’ Donnell Ben Affleck may be a bit polarizing when it comes to his acting career, but his directing career up to this point has been excellent with two very outstanding films The Town and Gone Baby Gone both receiving numerous awards and critical acclaim as well as…
Sinister Review
The horror genre more than probably any genre has been abused by cash-ins, remakes and flat out inexcusably low quality production. It’s Halloween season which means that the genre is firing on all cylinders to deliver its biggest cash grabs yet with what are usually considered the year’s biggest horror movies. This year is no…
Looper Review
“We both know how this has to go down… So why don’t you do what old men do… and die.” -Young Joe Rian Johnson has long been one of the most talented unknown directors out there with his debut film being the incredibly well conceived and executed indie film Brick and his follow up being the underrated film…
The Master Review
“If you figure out a way to live without a master, any master, be sure to let the rest of us know, for you would be the first in the history of the world.” -Lancaster Dodd The Master is master(no pun intended) filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson‘s latest character drama that delves into the depths of two…
Caleb Masters 