by Rob Webster | Dec 29, 2011 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Hugo is a visually stunning movie unlike any I’ve ever seen, revealing a director (Martin Scorcese) who is in every way at the top of his game. While there certainly is a plot and extremely good acting, this is a movie with visual images so rich and beautiful to...
by Rob Webster | Oct 18, 2011 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Footloose is a silly cardboard movie with silly cardboard characters saying silly cardboard things. That’s not to say it’s not an enjoyable movie, but it’s a little sad when much of the enjoyment comes from laughing at inane dialogue and plot. As a...
by Rob Webster | Aug 15, 2011 | Seven Sentence Reviews
The Help, based on the book by Katheryn Stockett, is an unusually good adaption of a very good book. The story, set in the early 60’s, is about a white woman (Skeeter, played by Emma Stone) in Jackson, Mississippi, who decides to write about something that...
by Rob Webster | Jun 12, 2011 | Seven Sentence Reviews
The movie Super 8 is excellent, and tells the story of a group of kids, amateur film makers in 1979 who, when filming a scene for their homemade zombie movie, witness an incredible (and mysterious) train crash, while their Super 8 camera witnesses even more. Super 8...
by Rob Webster | Jun 7, 2011 | Seven Sentence Reviews
Helmets and lens flares and hammers, oh my! Thor is over-the-top silliness, set in a mythical land of perpetual greenscreen golden sunsets with the most impressive collection of extreme helmets since 1980’s Flash Gordon. The dialogue is staggeringly bad and...
