THE REVIEW CORNER

   Once again, it's that time of year.  It's the Academy Awards, and this year was quite the celebration.  2012 started off not tremendously well and for the first few months, there weren't really any superb quality films released until late March or so.  As the year progressed, we saw movies such as The Hunger Games, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, Les Miserables, and so many more.  These movies made us laugh; they made us cry; they scared us half to death; they shocked us; they made us cheer; they made us think about the world we live in.  But most of all, they impressed us and told us why we go to the movies.  So, with that said, here are some of my thoughts on the biggest categories of the night. Best Supporting Actress      I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if you've seen Les Miserables, you know that this wasn't a tremendously close race.  There was no doubt in my mind that Anne Hathaway would ...

Starring: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, and Catherine Zeta-Jones Directed by: Steven Soderbergh Screenplay by: Scott Z. Burns      Finally, an actually really good movie that's been released in 2013!!!  It's about time!      Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) is a psychiatrist.  One of his patients, Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara), is a candidate for a new antidepressant drug.  But this drug is only in its testing phase and Banks is one of the doctors who's conducting the study for the drug company.  Both of their worlds will change completely when Taylor becomes the center of attention due to some unexpected side effects of the drug.  It's both a doctor's and a patient's worst nightmare come to life.      There's something different about Steven Soderbergh's style of directing that's drastically different than many other directors' styles of directing.  While most directors focus on one main character whom ...

Starring, Directed by, and Screenplays by a whole lot of different people      Let me begin by informing you that this is perhaps the WORST film I've ever seen.  It's supposed to be terrible but I don't know if it's supposed to be this bad.      Basically, Charlie Wessler (Dennis Quaid), has never made a movie in his life and he's got this crazy idea for a film that's really just a lot of short films put together with a few fake commercial breaks in the middle.  He's trying to pitch this ridiculously bad idea of a movie to the studio, and the whole movie is just these short films that he's though of.  Other than that, there's really no plot at all.       All of these short films are extremely weird, but quite funny.  I wonder what made all of these famous actors with great careers going for them decide to participate in a movie this bad.  The short plot lines in each short are sometimes completely ridiculous and t...