Movie Monday: Oscars 2017
As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted the Oscars on Feb. 26, staffers reviewed all nine nominees for Best Picture for an exclusive Movie Monday. Moonlight was awarded Best Picture.
La La Land
This past Wednesday, I sat down in the comfortable reclining chairs of the newly renovated Emagine Willow Creek Movie Theater, excited to see the Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated film, La La Land. The musical romantic comedy-drama first premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August of 2016, then was released into theaters throughout the United States in December. The movie began with...
Hell or High Water
In the year 2017, it seems as though the times of classic Western films are behind us. The classic tales of cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, an archaism. And yet, with Hell or High Water, director David Mackenzie seems to prove that these films can stand the test of time. Hell or High Water adapts and complexifies the traditional “cops and robbers” storyline, forcing audiences to question these ste...
Arrival
As I sat down to watch Arrival for a second time, I couldn’t help but be excited. After initially seeing it in theaters last November, the film quickly became a favorite of mine. Thought-provoking, exciting, and heartfelt, Arrival posses all the best qualities a movie should. Adapted from Stories of Your Life and Others, a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang, the film follows Dr. Louis...
Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea is a 2016 American drama film written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges. This past weekend, I went out to see the movie Manchester by the Sea. Manchester by the Sea is a current movie that is about a hardened handyman named Lee (Casey Affleck), who returns to his hometown in New England after the dea...
Hidden Figures
This weekend I went out to see the movie Hidden Figures, the true story of a team of African-American women mathematicians who served a crucial role in NASA during the early years of the United States space program. Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) served as the intelligence behind one of the greatest operations in history, the l...
Fences
This week I saw the movie Fences, and while the plot was heartfelt and intense, the movie was dark, sad, and rather disheartening. Set in the 1950’s, Fences follows Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington), a colored garbage collector whose former dream of playing baseball in the big leagues eats away at him, and affects every aspect of his life, including his relationships with his wife (Viola Davis) and his s...
Lion
Lion is a thrilling, exciting movie that is guaranteed to put you on the edge of your seat. It is a drama movie, directed by Garth Davis, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. It starts out with a five year old boy, named Saroo, who gets lost on a train. The train travels many miles across India separating him from his family. Saroo (Dev Patel) must learn to survive on his own, before he gets ...
Hacksaw Ridge
This weekend, I went out and saw Hacksaw Ridge. The movie takes place during World War II and follows a soldier named Desmond T. Doss (Andrew Garfield) who refused to kill. The movie starts by foreshadowing a very graphic war scene. Viewers see soldiers getting shot, burned and blown up. The movie had incredible graphics and sound but may be too gory for some viewers. Hacksaw Ridge can app...
Moonlight
Moonlight focuses on a black man’s journey to self discovery and acceptance. The movie is split into three segments, which all focus on different yet equally significant parts of the main character, Chiron’s life. Chiron grew up in poverty, surrounded by drugs and violence in Miami. His mother, Paula, was emotionally abusive and addicted to crack. His constant battle with his mother and her...
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