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 | Oct 5, 2013 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Gravity, though not a perfect film, is well worth watching, as Sandra Bullock ably carries this film on her shoulders as an astronaut/scientist on a space mission that quickly turns disastrous. While on a spacewalk, Bullock’s character, Dr. Ryan Stone, learns...
by Rob Webster | Dec 28, 2012 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Any film adaptation of the most perfect live musical (are you picking up my biases?) is bound to somehow fall short of expectations, since perfection, cross-medium, would be nearly impossible, and this review is not a critique of the story or the musical at all, but...
by Rob Webster | Nov 8, 2012 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Note: In a first for me, I’m revising a review. And while both of the readers of this blog may decry such actions, it’s my blog, and I’ll do as I please. Why the revision? Because some films are better reviewed after the passage of a little bit of...
