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Trailer Trashin’: The Ol’ Canucklehead is Back in The Wolverine
It’s April, and the weather is finally warming up. Even better, the beginning of April means that the start of the summer movie season is only a handful of weeks away. And appropriately, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ examines our first look at one of this summer’s tent-pole releases, the comic book sequel The Wolverine. Premise: Set sometime after the events of X-Men: The La...[Read More]
Movie Review: Les Misérables
Since its debut in 1980, Les Misérables, the musical based on the 1862 French novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, has become a true phenomenon of the stage. And like many fans of Les Mis, as it’s colloquially known, I wondered if the long-rumored movie adaptation would ever emerge from the depths of development hell. In March 2011, it was announced that Tom Hooper, director of Red Dust (...[Read More]
A Ten-Year-Old Film Critic Reviews Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians is a fantastic movie. It is really good. I love how there are so many magical surprises. Rise of the Guardians is a mixed emotions movie. It made me feel nervous, scared, sad, and happy. The movie starts off with Jack Frost (voiced by Chris Pine) falling through ice into water and then coming out and landing on snowy ground which was a very exciting part. When he fell to the ...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Les Miserables Lets Us Hear the People Sing
With so many people going to the movies during the summer, it’s a great time for the studios to start putting out trailers for their big fall and winter films, in order to start building awareness. Such is the case with the subject of this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column, the first teaser for the long-awaited movie adaptation of the award-winning musical Les Misérables. Premise: F...[Read More]