ZOOTOPIA, City of Fun and Tolerance
In Walt Disney Animation's newest family romp, Zootopia, we follow the story of Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin), an optimistic and positive up beat bunny who dreams of becoming a cop in Zootopia, a city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals of all kinds where the smallest mouse to the largest elephant can be anything from a restaurant server to the CEO of a major company. Once Judy achieves her goal of being a police officer in Zootopia, she is at first given small, boring, non-risky jobs such as parking duty. That is until she c…
Cloud Atlas Review
Let me start off by saying that the only reason I went to see this film is because EVERYBODY would not stop talking about this past week. I mean on the TV, the news, advertisements, everybody was saying how good Cloud Atlas was and how revolutionary it was. It even got a 10 minute standing ovation when it was shown at the Toronto Film Festival. I was just curious to see how good this was since people have been building it up all week. So I went to see it so I can judge it through my opinion and it was... okay. It was just okay, nothing spectac…
HALLOWEEN REVIEW OF THE DAY: The Shining (1980)
Today's review features a classic from my favorite director Stanley Kubrick. The Shining, based on a novel by Stephen King, follows a delusional writer named Jack Torrance, played by the great Jack Nicholson, and his family while they overlook a hotel during the winter as supernatural occurrences and cabin fever ensues. Like many great horror films, this film has a disturbing and an uncomfortable tone throughout giving the audience a hint of what to prepare for. Jack Nicholson like always is great as this type of character. The character J…
