Caleb Masters

Blade Runner: A Dark Future?

Blade Runner is widely considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time and it is so because of its multilayered story filled with different messages and ideologies. The movie covers quite a few different territories ranging from themes of post-modern capitalism to anti-consumerism to themes of what it means to be human….

Paranormal Activity 3 Review

The Paranormal Activity franchise is now entering its second sequel(prequel) and I’ve been left wondering if the franchise can really sustain itself relying on the same tricks its been using since the original. The series was certainly really cool and inventive when it was released by demand in 2009, but now the really cool following has erupted into a…

Double Indemnity Review

“It’s just like the first time I came here, isn’t it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet. “ -Walter Neff Its been many years since film noir was the popular genre of film in Hollywood. There was once a time when nonlinear,…

The Colors and Symbols of Vertigo

“Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere. “ -Madeline Alfred Hitchcock is regarded by many film critics and audiences as one of the greatest if not the greatest film director of all time. No matter how you may feel about his movies it would be very difficult to argue against Hitchcock’s…

Drive Review

“If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place. I give you a five-minute window, anything happens in that five minutes and I’m yours no matter what. I don’t sit in while you’re running it down; I don’t carry a gun… I drive” -Driver The title of Drive may be a…

Revising a Masterpiece: George Lucas and Star Wars

Star Wars has by this point become a worldwide phenomenon at least 3 times in the last 35 years. It has left its mark on classic cinema, modern cinema, and more recently TV with The Clone Wars. The series has constantly pushed special effects and new technology that has in turn given millions and potentially billions of…

The Best and Worst of Summer 2011

Today is Labor day which means that the summer movie season is officially over and to round it out I would like to post what I thought were the best movies of the summer and what were the worst movies I saw this summer. This summer was a summer jam packed with notable movies coming…

Revisiting Citizen Kane

“You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn’t been very rich, I might have been a really great man.” -Charles Foster Kane Citizen Kane is widely considered one of the greatest if not the greatest film ever made. The first time I had ever seen this movie was about four years ago when I was entering…

Cowboys & Aliens Review

The western genre was all but defeated when science fiction broke through to the mainstream with films like Star Wars in the 1970s and 80s. This is mostly because the tried and true formula of westerns was getting very stale and science fiction offered a way to tell similar stories in flashier and more robust…

Captain America: The First Avenger Review

“I’m just a kid from Brooklyn” -Steve Rogers Sigh. Another superhero movie this summer? This will have been the fourth major superhero movie this summer and by this point most of us are tired of it. The only shot Captain America has this summer is doing something different than its other competition by giving us…