by Rob Webster | Dec 27, 2016 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Just FYI, I’ve launched a new website for my Seven Sentence Reviews and will be posting future reviews there instead. Hop on over for a visit!
by Rob Webster | Dec 18, 2015 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Star Wars: The Force Awakens feels redemptive in so many ways, making up for misguided prequels, somehow restoring a balance to the Force as it restores old friends and ideas to the screen. From the famous title crawl and pan down across the stars, the unexpectedly...
by Rob Webster | May 20, 2015 | Seven Sentence Reviews
There’s a scene early on in Mad Max: Fury Road where our titular character Max (Tom Hardy) has been captured and affixed to a post on the front of a car, hung there like a figurehead on the bow of a ship, powerless and vulnerable as the car careens through the...
by Rob Webster | May 17, 2015 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Avengers: Age of Ultron is a really stupid movie that opens in the middle of an intense fight/chase sequence that looks a whole lot like a video game, so much so that I thought it was clever how they were going to then pull the camera back and show that the Avengers...
by Rob Webster | Feb 19, 2015 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Twenty Feet from Stardom won the 2014 Best Documentary Academy Award, and boy, does it deserve it, as filmmaker Morgan Neville shines a bright spotlight on backup singers, some of the most talented and under-appreciated musicians around. More historical than...
by Rob Webster | Feb 18, 2015 | Seven Sentence Reviews
American Sniper is one of the best war movies I’ve ever seen, and shows the particular horrors of modern war and its impact not just on the people with whom we do battle, but also on families and individuals. Let me say this at the outset: The movie is not a...