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…
Spencer Hu shu2@uwyo.edu If Tinder resides on this side of the not-quite-being-too-taboo line, then the Peeple app might just barely reside on the other side of that same line. Peeple most often is described as being “Yelp,” but for people. Users go onto the app and review people they’ve encountered in their own life, giving…
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…
Jeremy Rowley jrowley1@uwyo.edu “Steve Jobs” is not a biopic. It does not try to tell the story of the much-beloved Apple Computers. In fact, the film does not even really try to tell a story at all. But, when the credits started to roll, I found myself upset that the movie was over. Rather than…
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…
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day at Camp What it is about–Set before the events of the Wet Hot American Summer film, this show takes a satirical look at prequels by further exploring life at Camp Firewood. Why you should watch it–Though all the performers have aged 14 years since the release of the original…
“Fantastic Four” is the worst superhero movie to be made in the last decade, everything about it is so lopsided and gangly I’m surprised anything in this movie actually makes sense. Something that people don’t really seem to understand about the Fantastic Four is that they’re not really superheroes. Not in the same way the…
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…
