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(Archive September 1, 2011) Movie Review: The Town

By editorialteam on July 30, 2024

By Edward Billiel | Observer Reporter

Newly released on DVD, The Town is an action film that will not disappoint. This is Affleck’s third movie as director and it is on its way to having equal if not more credit than his other works including Gimme Shelter and Gone Baby Gone, which has received multiple awards that include the Hollywood Film Festival Award for Breakthough Director of the Year.

The Town also has a cast full of talent including Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, and Pete Postlethwaite. Afflecks character, Doug MacRay is the ringleader of his crew. MacRay’s childhood friend James “Jem” Coughlin is the hard-headed thug of the group, who has no remorse toward his victims. Pete Postletwaite plays the owner of a local flower shop and is the master mind behind all of the robberies MacRay and his crew complete. read more

(Archive March 15, 2010) Movie Review: Valentine’s Day

By editorialteam on July 10, 2024

By Guthrie Roy Hartford | Web Manager

The premise of Valentine’s Day is thoroughly enjoyable, seeing how the overall plot constantly elaborates on how pointless this Hallmark holiday really is. The one thing that really baffles me about Valentine’s Day is the abundance of star power that it brings to the table. There are nineteen different actors and/or actresses in this flick that can potentially call themselves stars. My question simply is: How did other flicks manage successful casting while Valentine’s Day was filming? Hollywood must have gone on a thirty or some odd day vacation just so this movie could be made. You have well-known names such as Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, George Lopez, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Taylor Lautner and Julia Roberts among many others that are gridlocked into this hectic date flick that focuses on bad lunches and infidelity. read more

(Archive February 3, 2009) Movie Reviews

By editorialteam on July 10, 2024

By Lindsey Washburn | Observer Contributor

Tale of Despereaux

I’m not usually so harsh, but I really, really liked the book by Kate DiCamillo … And what I saw on that screen had almost nothing to do with the book that I read. If I were DiCamillo I would have taken my name off it. It was hard for my mother and I to follow, and we consider ourselves of average adult intelligence. I can’t imagine what the eight-year-olds thought. I was disappointed in all the actors (even Dustin Hoffman and Sigourney Weaver), but even if they had impressed me it couldn’t have saved this ship from sinking. I wash my hands of it. read more

(Archive October 2007) DVD Review: Spider-Man 3

By editorialteam on June 27, 2024

By Adam Nadeau | Observer Reporter

Spiderman 3 shoots into stores on DVD this month, the dark tale of Peter Parker’s inner struggle against evil. He does this as he battles too many vil­lains and becomes caught in a web of a lame-ass screenplay, an overstuffed plot, and an absence of character development. This DVD release is a reminder that unwarranted hype and CGI can make a movie over 300 Million in the US box office, whether or not it’s a great film.

Back in May, I remember standing in line at the local cin­ema, eagerly holding tickets for myself and my best friends to see the midnight screening of the third chapter of our favor­ite superhero movie. The the­ater was packed with eager fans, some even dressed as their hero, awaiting the hyped Spiderman 3, even cheering at the opening credits. read more

(Archive March 2006) Film Review: Date Movie

By editorialteam on June 26, 2024

Box Office Bust

By Stacey M. Salo | Editor-in-Chief

Looking for a good new comedy movie? I wouldn’t recommend spending the 7 or so dollars on Date Movie (rated PG 13 for content and language), a spoof of several romantic comedies. It starts with laughter and ends with the viewer feeling disappointed at how it falls flat. If not that, the viewer will get up and leave after the first 20 to 30 minutes. If you really want to see the movie, I would highly recommend renting it, and save the extra money for candy and soda because those are the only two good things you are going to get out of watching this movie.  read more

Film: Hidden Figures

By editorialteam on February 25, 2020

February 27, 12:30 p.m., North Cafe.

Three brilliant African-American women at NASA — Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) — serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race and galvanized the world.

Film: V for Vendetta

By editorialteam on November 16, 2019

November 20, 12:30 p.m., North Café.

Great Britain has become a fascist state. Now, a shadowy freedom fighter known only as “V” (Hugo Weaving – the Matrix trilogy) begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who have embraced totalitarianism. In his quest to liberate England from its oppressive ideological chains, “V” recruits a young woman (Natalie Portman – Star Wars: Episodes I-III) he’s rescued from the secret police to join him on an epic adventure to execute a seemingly impossible task. read more

Film: Ice Warriors

By editorialteam on October 21, 2019

October 23, 12:30pm, North Café.

The training is tough as the U.S. sled hockey team prepares for the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in ICE WARRIORS. Sled hockey, called “murderball on blades,” is played as aggressively as able-bodied hockey – but these players battle with their sticks, sharp sled runners and the serrated ice picks used to propel their sleds. They fight it out at eye level with a fastmoving puck in this game of force, speed and strategy.

Film: Boy Erased

By editorialteam on October 7, 2019

October 9, 12:30 PM, North Cafe.

Boy Erased tells the story of Jared (Hedges), the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who is outed to his parents (Kidman and Crowe) at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith. Boy Erased is the true story of one young man’s struggle to find himself while being forced to question every aspect of his identity.