Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s latest 2023 feature release, “Jawan,” with Arun Kumar “Atlee” in his Bollywood directorial debut, has people cheering, whistling, and dancing in the theatre.
By Meghan Weatherall Saying it was magical may seem a bit cliché, but that’s what Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was. As the Waterloo theatre lights dimmed and Hedwig’s Theme filled the room with its classical chime, the crowd fell silent. Like myself, many in attendance for the Nov. 17 premiere have waited for more than five years for a new Harry Potter movie. I felt like shouting … Continued
BY JENNA BRAUN I went into the theatre unbiased. Knowing very little about Batman or Superman prior to the movie, I figured I’d leave it up to director Zack Snyder to form my opinion. Honestly, I still can’t decide which team I’m on. I’ve never liked Ben Affleck. Something about his smug demeanour and obnoxious face just turned me off of most of his other movies, but he did an … Continued
BY JESSICA HAMMER Appearances can be deceiving if a person is looking closely enough and know what to look for when watching a horror film. For some people, watching a horror movie is the last thing they would want to do. It could be because they just don’t care for that genre of films or they choose to watch it but jump at every shadow behind their closed eyelids when … Continued
BY MIKE STROMME Will Ferrell (Anchorman, Step Brothers) and Mark Wahlberg (Ted, Boogie Nights) compete mano a mano for ultimate dad supremacy in Sean Anders’ (Horrible Bosses 2, We’re the Millers) latest comedy, Daddy’s Home. Ferrell plays Brad Whitaker, a vanilla, white collar, by-the-book, suburban stepfather to two young children following their mother’s divorce. While Whitaker struggles to get the love and admiration from these kids, their biological father, Dusty … Continued
BY MARISSA CUDDY If you love crude humour or if you just love seeing Zac Efron shirtless, Dirty Grandpa is the movie for you. Efron works side by side with Robert DeNiro in this laugh out loud hit movie. It starts out calmly at a funeral for the wife of Dick Kelly (DeNiro) and Jason Kelly’s (Efron) grandmother. Efron plays a preppy, uptight businessman and DeNiro plays a perverted retired … Continued
BY NATHAN BROWN It all starts with a wormhole. Opening in theatres Nov. 7, Interstellar hit the big screen with a bang. Written and directed by the legendary Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception), the sci-fi thriller boggles the minds of moviegoers, but also leaves people craving more. Set in the future, Earth is running out of its natural resources. Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey), a former pilot … Continued
BY KELSEY DUNBAR “Hungry?” Lt. Frank Stokes asks. “You buying?” James Granger replies. “No. Uncle Sam is,” Stokes says. The Monuments Men, based on a novel by Robert Edsel, revolves around what is called the greatest treasure hunt in history. The movie takes place at the tail end of the Second World War when an unlikely group of men are selected to go overseas into Germany, the centre of the … Continued
BY MARK LORENTZ Taxes and death are the two guarantees in life, but perhaps it’s time to throw another one into the mix – taxes, death and movie sequels. Coming off the $88 million made at the box office by The Muppets back in 2011, Walt Disney Studios has given us the latest adventure from the Muppets gang, in Muppets Most Wanted. With the comedic pedigree of Ricky Gervais (The … Continued
BY COLE FROUDE Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is the fifth entry into the found footage franchise, giving fans more scares. However, despite expanding the back story the film doesn’t move the franchise’s storyline forward. Found footage, according to Wikipedia, is a genre of film making, especially horror, in which all or a substantial part of a film is presented as discovered film or video recordings, often left behind by … Continued
BY CALLIE WRIGGLESWORTH Any fan of the classic Disney film, Mary Poppins, will fall in love with Saving Mr. Banks which tells the unique story of how the beloved movie came to be. Tom Hanks stars as Walt Disney and there couldn’t have been a better actor for the role. Hanks does an excellent job of portraying a happy-go-lucky Disney. The movie is based around the author of Mary Poppins, … Continued
By KATRINA EDLEFSEN Bad books make bad movies and good books make good movies, so a great book should make a great movie. It should come as no surprise then that a great book like Ender’s Game would become just that, a great movie. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by American author Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game takes place in a future where Earth is attacked … Continued
BY DEVON HAYES The long-anticipated Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire, has finally arrived, and to generous – and rightfully so – reactions. The film, which is an adaptation of the second book of a three-part series, features Katniss Everdeen (Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), the two winners of the 74th Panem Hunger Games, during the aftermath of the first movie’s events. During the first half … Continued
