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No Risks in ‘Safe House’

By Jeremy Tramer February 9, 2012

The tagline on the poster for Safe House is "No One is Safe." And indeed, it's true. Denzel Washington's Tobin Frost and Ryan Reynolds' Matt Weston, along with a grab bag of anonymous henchman, spend...

Friends Sans Benefits

By Victoria Edel February 9, 2012

I'm a big fan of romantic comedies, but it's difficult to find ones that aren't horrible. When Harry Met Sallycomes as close to perfection as this genre will ever come. The concept doesn't sound great:...

Extremely Emotional and Incredibly Long

By Bethany Imondi January 25, 2012

Most of us can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011. For nine-year-old Oskar Schell, the memory of listening to his father's voice on the answering machine...

Latest Twilight Flick Fails to Break Ground

By Jeremy Tramer December 1, 2011

"Hey you guys, I just saw a Twilight movie and hated it because I'm not a 12-year-old girl, and also because LOL, it's Twilight and people hate it on the Internet or something! Ready for some hackneyed...

Greatness Emanates From Espionage Film

By Maria Miracle November 30, 2011

In many ways, young adults of this day and age have fallen victim to the development of the 21st century. Films and television shows have become canvasses for the latest and greatest pyrotechnics,...

Drama Ascends to Greatness

By Allie Doughty November 17, 2011

The opening sequence of The Descendants, which reveals a woman's face against the backdrop of a turquoise ocean, is one of the only scenes in the entire film without music — because music is replaced...

Inspiring Drama Finds Humor in Unlikely Places

By Victoria Perrachon September 30, 2011

Going into the movie theater, I knew that 50/50 was a comedy. However, Jonathan Levine's new film is not your typical blockbuster comedy; it mingles the gravity of real-life events with the humor...

I Don’t Know How You Could Watch This

By Jeremy Tramer September 16, 2011

When I go to screenings of movies I'm going to review, I write "lol" in my notes for failed attempts at humor, and "haha" for things that are actually funny. The lol-to-haha ratio for I Don't Know How...

New Fighting Flick Packs a Punch

By Alex Martin September 9, 2011

From the moment that the trailer of Warrior was publicized, the buzz surrounding the film largely consisted of two questions: Why did it give away the ending in the preview? And, hang on — didn't...

Alums’ Sundance Winner Shatters the Stereotype of Sci-Fi

By Sarah Amos August 1, 2011

Written and directed by Georgetown graduates Mike Cahill (COL '01) and Britt Marling (COL '05), Another Earth is a story of redemption and second chances that arrive with the discovery of another earth...

Fresh Thriller Blurs Reality and Fantasy

By Alex Martin March 30, 2011

Director Duncan Jones first appeared on the Hollywood scene in 2009 with his work on the psychological and introspective sci-fi drama Moon. In his latest film Source Code, Jones takes the surrealism...

Jarring Foreign Film Delivers Heated Action

By Ryan Pike March 24, 2011

Quebeçois director Denis Villenueve crafts a dark and complex narrative in his 2010 film Incendies, adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play "Scorched." The film earned a Best Foreign Language Film nomination...

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