Caleb Masters

New Project Updates: Renegade Cinema and Cinemaniacs

Hello everyone! I haven’t been posting quite as frequently as I’d like the last couple of months, but I can assure you that I am still catching tons of movies and still doing reviews. I’m hoping to have one coming down the pipe this weekend and very very soon I should have reviews for the…

Captain Phillips Review

Director Paul Greengrass has built a name for himself in the last decade with his action hits in the Bourne franchise as well as his ventures into documentary style drama with United 93. Captain Phillips looks to retell a true story about a captain whose ship was attacked by Somali pirates. It may look like…

Don Jon: A World Addicted To Expectations

Last weekend Joseph Gordon Levitt’s first major pet project Don Jon hit theaters to a warm box office welcome and some really exciting critical acclaim. It’s one that I’ve been hotly anticipating ever since it premiered at Sundance last January. Instead of doing a standard review for this movie, I thought I’d do some analysis….

Farewell Breaking Bad

Four years ago I made a deal with one of my best friends. If he would sit through Lost, I’d watch Breaking Bad all the way through to the end. At the time I thought I was getting the easier end of the deal; l had planned to sit through the two seasons available and…

Rush Review

It’s been a few years since director Ron Howard has delivered a truly memorable movie to the big screen, but Rush looks like a return to the genre that made him the Oscar caliber director of legends. Like “Apollo 13” and “A Beautiful Mind” that came before it, Rush is looking to deliver a heightened form of…

My Top 5 Movies of Summer 2013

To top off my posts on summer 2013 I am doing my own personal top 5 list. The scores I gave these movies are off the table. I’m basing this off of my own personal retrospective on the summer. With the Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF) underway, it’s time to move out of the time of…

Summer 2013 Report Card: Pass or Fail?

Another summer gone, another round of superhero movies, explosions, and wildly huge action driven movies have come and gone. The biggest time of the year in blockbusters is over, but exactly how well did this season perform? School’s back in session and I’m pulling out all the stops to grade Hollywood’s track record in all…

Playing Catch-Up: Summer 2013 Micro-reviews

We’ve hit the end of August which means that the summer blockbuster season is finally coming to an end. It has been a summer filled with blockbusters upon blockbusters upon flops and explostions. In an upcoming post, I’m going to give a report card to the 2013 summer blockbuster season that starts in May and…

Kick-Ass 2 Review

“I try to have fun. Otherwise, what’s the point?” -Colonel Stars and Stripes What would happen if the every day comic book nerd tried to be a superhero? We’re not talking Watchmen realism, the down and dirty Punisher realism, or even the Christopher Nolan Batman realism; we’re asking what would happen in our world? This…

Elysium Review

Neill Blomkamp is still a bit of a rookie in the film industry despite delivering 2009’s smash hit “District 9”. Now that it has been a few years and he’s parted ways with his big time collaborator Peter Jackson, Blomkamp is carving out his own path in Hollywood by making another piece of original sci-fi in…