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Skyfall Review

Daniel Craig. Javier Bardem. Judi Dench. Ralph Fiennes. Sam Mendes. Roger Deakins. Thomas Newman. All modern legends in their own right in the filmmaking industry. You would think their new film, yeah not any film, a Bond film, would blow you away, wouldn't you? Not today, not today. Skyfall was a film that had so much promise. So much. And yet, it took a step back following in the footsteps of Quantum of Solace. Skyfall follows Bond as he is to retrieve a drive that contains all agents hidden in terrorist organizations across the world. He can't find it and the chase pursues. It ends on a train, where M orders an agent to shoot a man Bond is fighting. She shoots, and hits Bond. The rest of the film follows M16 and M, limping out with out Bond, hoping to stay afloat. But things get worse and worse, and low and behold, Bond comes back to save the day, and does, with a story that well, isn't Bond...

The Night of The Hunter Review

The Night of the Hunter is a classic for a reason. Kids my age should take note of what makes a classic classic, and why it has stood the test of time. This is unlike most of the films that come out today: Pointless and wallowing in their own mediocrity. Classic is something that others copy, others look to for guidance, one whose story and theme transcends the art form. This is a film that has done all of the above (If you want to argue this, or debate it I should say, comment below). The story is about a boy John and his sister Pearl. The movie opens with their father hiding 10 grand he stole, and telling the kids that no matter what, they would never tell where he hid it. The kids promise and the dad goes off to prison. There he meets the Reverend Harry Powell, who finds out he has this money. This now becomes his sole purpose. Find and take the money at any cost. It's a wife, 2 kids and her family. Who can really stop him? The sto...

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life is a hugely ambitious picture that not only deals with a family’s life here on earth, but the creation of our own and the beiiefs, religious or secular, we grasp as the clear and definite truth. The scope of Malick’s film is transcendental to our culture. · The film begins a child’s death and a family’s struggle to grasp this grievous concept. We see them look back at life and how their relationships with one another has grown or decreased over the years. The family is upheld by two parents. The mother represents Grace, the kind and loving side of life, while the father represents Nature, the mentality that you must get ahead and do whatever you can to survive in this dog eat dog world of ours. We see the children having to decide what side of life they want. The main character, Jack, struggles with these natures. He does not know which one to take hold...

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