On Thursday Jan. 25, the University welcomed Benjamin Patton, the grandson of General George S. Patton, who served in WWII. Ben Patton began the Patton Veterans Project (PVP) in 2011. According to the PVP website, Patton thought that the “process of collaborating to create visual narratives this way could also benefit veterans returning from combat…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu “Deadpool” takes tongue-in-cheek to a whole, other-worldly level. Instead, it takes the tongue, attaches a samurai sword to it, gouges it through the cheek causing blood to spray everywhere and then laughs gleefully as it skips down the lane. In short, “Deadpool” is one crazy-f***ing movie. And it’s all thanks to the…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu Walking out of The Revenant there is one major takeaway, wrapped around one lingering, awe-inspiring question: How the hell did he do that? “He” of course refers to director Alejandro G. Inarritu and “that” would be every single frame of this epic tale. The task seems so tremendous that Neil DeGrasse Tyson…
Matt Rooney Mrooney3@uwyo.edu “The Good Dinosaur” is the kind of movie that makes you feel like running into the wilderness and hugging every tree until you break it in half with your love. However, it may also cause people to run through a forest, spitting on everything in sight and kicking squirrels that give…
Matt Rooney mrooney3@uwyo.edu We open on the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico City. A lovely tracking shot follows the celebrating, skeleton-dressed crowd, landing on a man in a suit with a girl on his arm as he tails another man dressed all in white. The man is James Bond (Daniel Craig) and he…
Horror movies and why we love the kill Michael Rotellini Mrotell1@uwyo.edu It’s that time of the year again where we marathon horror movies, consume popcorn, candy and delight in the macabre and grotesque aspects of our society. Horror movies are an essential part of the season and a normal part of our society. In…
Jeremy Rowley jrowley1@uwyo.edu An original story is a hard find in the world of movies. For every “Edge of Tomorrow,” there are five “Avatars.” Yet, sometimes that is not a bad thing. Sure, “The Lion King” is just Hamlet with animals in Africa, but it was terrific. It highlighted the quality that can come out…
One of the hardest parts when it comes to writing movie reviews for a newspaper is the word limit. Usually a movie will make me feel something. For instance, this year’s “Paper Towns” was a surprisingly great movie that I could easily have written 1500 words on. Last week’s “Pixels” was so repulsively feculent that…
“Dark Places” isn’t as well made as last year’s Gillian Flynn movie adaptation “Gone Girl” but with an outstanding performance from producer/actress Charlize Theron and a noir look at the Midwest, this is the kind of who-done-it to keep audiences guessing. This movie is part Lifetime made for TV movie, “Dateline,” “To Catch a Predator”…
“Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” is an avalanche of thrills that successfully balances fun with danger to craft a perfect action-espionage extravaganza. A big problem with modern spy movies is just how downright depressing they end up being. Even James Bond can’t go a single movie nowadays without getting wrapped-up in a metaphorical cloak of…
Balancing charm and endearing shenanigans, “Minions” does come out on top as the best of the “Despicable Me” movies to date, but it fails to be anything more than mediocre. The films in the “Despicable Me” franchise have never managed to impress me. The overall quality of each film has only ever been one rung…
Just as “Guardians of the Galaxy” was a sci-fi adventure and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” was a spy movie, “Ant-Man” is more than just another superhero flick. At its heart, Ant-Man is really an insect-riddled heist film. Against all odds, Hollywood has managed to produce a good Ant-Man film before getting around to making…
