Rating Changes
Hello Curtis Here, From now on I decided to change my film rating system. I will no longer be using grades such as P, P+, AE, and so forth. My initial thought was to use the same grading style as my high school just for fun since it was so unique, but I realize it is harder for readers to understand that, especially for the fact that most of them never went to my school. So from now on I decided to change the system. I will now be grading movies out of 100, like 90/100, 82/100 49/100, etc. Hopefully this new method will do a better job as t…
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…
Is #OscarsSoWhite Worth It?
So the nominations for the Oscars have come out, and for the most part the nominations are the ones that I mostly expected to appear. But a controversy has arise, as they always do when it comes to the Academy Awards. We see that in the second year in a row there were no people of color, specifically in this issue everybody brings up, black African-American talent, who were nominated for an Oscar. Now I'll be honest, when I first realized this was an issue again, I was angry. As I felt I had a right to be, myself being a black African…
"STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS", And it Truly Has!
The wait is finally over! The seventh installment in the most beloved and popular movie franchise of all time has finally arrived! Directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes place about 30 years after Return of the Jedi, as remnants of the Empire, now called The First Order rises and fights against what used to be the Rebellion, is now the Resistance. The First Order is led by a new villain named Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) who is strong in the Dark Side of the Force. One of the Stormtroopers of The First Order, Finn (John Boyeg…
Selected Review of the Day: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)
We finally come to the last of the original trilogy, and the final chapter of the Star Wars saga...until now. This is Return of the Jedi, and here we see our story begins with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) attempting to rescue Han Solo (Harrison Ford) from the evil gangster Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine. Meanwhile the Empire are in the stage of building a second and more powerful Death Star above the forest moon of Endor, with the supervision of Darth Vader (played by David Prowse,…
Selected Review of the Day: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
Now we enter the sequel to the original Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back. What do you do after a film that was such a massive success and made a lasting imprint the history of Hollywood. Make it grander, bigger, and better of course! After the events of the first film, Luke (Mark Hamill), Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), and the rest are hiding on the icy cold planet of Hoth with the Rebels from the Empire. Luke gets a vision of Obi-Wan telling him to go to the planet of Dagobah and to train with a Jedi Master called Yoda (F…
Selected Review of the Day: STAR WARS (1977)
Folks we are finally here! The review of the original Star Wars! This is the film that started it all and probably changed the course of Hollywood film making forever. Out of the imaginative mind of George Lucas, say what you want about his Star Wars decisions in the later years, comes a story and a world that would change and affect the lives of film lovers in the entire galaxy! We all know the story, when two droids, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) are stranded on a desert planet called Tatooine after they escape an attack by…
