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Evil Dead: Behind the Scenes (Part 2)
I was sitting with the screenwriting professor, Bill Vincent, over drinks at the Peanut Barrel in East Lansing, MI. He had been talking about filming the original “Evil Dead” with the now...
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5 Top Movie Trends of 2013
2012 was an excellent year for films. I can not promise that 2013 will be as good of a year. I can’t tell if I approve of the 5 Top Movie Trends of 2013 that I’ve found in my research, but they’re here...
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Walt Disney: The Innovator, Imagineer and Inspirer
Walt Disney at Disneyland with Mickey Mouse Last week a group of friends and I traveled to sunny Orlando, Florida to do what most normal college kids do over Spring Break; we went to Disney World. I...
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Capital City Film Festival Comes to Lansing
Filmmakers and cinephiles should be on the lookout for the Capital City Film Festival coming to downtown Lansing, April 11-14. No matter what kind of movies you dig, CCFF has a wide range of films and...
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“Spring Breakers”: Boobs on the Big Screen
I really had no idea what I was getting myself into when I saw the new movie Spring Breakers. The first thirty seconds of the movie’s intro quickly changed that. There were so many college girls...
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Top Five Must-See Movies of April and May
For some odd reason, this time of year seems to bring about the start of a parade of movie releases– some much anticipated and others completely out of the blue, but all attention grabbing and worth...
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The Ins and Outs of Filmmaking
Have you ever really wondered what all goes into making a film? During my last year of school, I’ve been a part of a 20-some person student/independent film crew that has been working relentlessly to...
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Red Scare’s Revival: Review for Red Dawn
Image Courtesy of lunadigital.tv In the wake of recent tensions and threats from North Korea, it seems now is the opportune time to assert the steadfast power that is the American nation. What better...
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Horror Movies and the Ways they Speak to Us
Let the Right One In official US poster Why do we watch horror movies, and enjoy them? Do we just enjoy being scared, do we like the fact that they are all (mostly) fantasy, or, sadistic as it sounds,...
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Six Great Stand-Up Comedians
Comedy is wonderful and it definitely feels good to have a nice, hard laugh now and then. I thought I would share my love of stand-up comedy with you, so I’ve put a list of clips from some great...
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Making a Choice: My Thoughts on The Host
The provoking words “Choose to Love”–in addition to their counterparts, “Choose to Believe” and “Choose to Fight”–are strewn everywhere on movie posters and trailers for The Host. Stephanie Meyers,...
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Summer Movies are Right Around the Corner
It’s safe to say (fingers crossed) that winter is officially over. Since seasons are basically irrelevant in this day and age of wonky climate change, we can just flip the page on spring and dive right...
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How Roger Ebert Changed My Life
It’s safe to say that I would not be where I am today without Roger Ebert. The venerated film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner died last Thursday at the age of 70 after a long and very public battle...
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Top 5 Movie Franchises That Need to Stop Making Sequels
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who realizes this, but about 75% of the movie industry today is comprised of book/comic adaptations, remakes and prequels/sequels/threequels. Quite frankly, it seems...
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Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
I have a few friends who flat out refuse to watch animated films on the basis that they are for children. No matter how many times I wave Pixar films in front of their faces as proof to the contrary,...
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MSU Student Film Premieres Next Week
An elite group of students have been given a challenge: create a half-hour fiction film together over the course of two semesters using professional equipment and a $2000 budget, under the supervision...
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Is Amanda Bynes the New Lindsay Lohan?
In the past several years, we have seen some of the most absurd celebrity transformations. Whether it was Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan, we still had hope for some of the girls in Hollywood to remain...
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Why “The Great Gatsby” Can Stick It In It’s Over-Hyped Pipe and Smoke It
*Warning: If you haven’t seen the Great Gatsby there are spoilers ahead. But in all honestly, you should’ve read the book and therefore know what happens anyways. And if you haven’t, get on that and do...
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The Science Fiction Genre Reborn
Thirty years ago, an age without cell phones and handheld computers, the science fiction genre in both film and literature served a dualistic role as both a social commentary about the effects of...
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Film Review: Struck By Lightning
You may know Chris Colfer as the lovable Kurt from Glee, but it turns out that his talents extend beyond TV and singing. Colfer wrote and starred in the 2012 film Struck By Lightning, which depicts a...
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