Movie Review: Fight Club

Directed by David Fincher 5 Stars David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is an adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. It tells the story of an unnamed narrator (Edward Norton). The narrator has a very ordinary life. He works a 9-5 job, he goes on frequent business trips, and he has an…
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Movie Review: She’s All That

Directed by Robert Iscove 3 Stars This movie, released in 1999 and directed by Robert Iscove, is considered a Teen Fiction classic. It’s set in California and follows Zach Siler. Torrance High‘s star student and athlete who accepts a bet with one of his jock friends. It entails turning one of their school's most undesirable…
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Movie Review: Belle

Directed by Amma Asante 5 Stars Though 2014’s Belle, directed by Amma Asante, is based on true events and adapted from a 2014 book of a similar name, I can neither evaluate its historical accuracy nor compare it to the preceding book. I can merely comment—or rather rave—on its delivery in this medium. It follows…
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Movie Review: Real Steel

Directed by Shawn Levy 4 Stars This 2011 movie, directed by Shawn Levy, is set in the year 2020—which might suggest that we, in the real world, are a bit behind—an age in which not much has changed except that rather monstrous and mechanical robots have replaced human boxers in the fighting ring. Boxing is…
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Movie Review: Power Rangers

Directed by Dean Isrealite 4 Stars Much like 2013’s Man of Steel, Power Rangers, released in 2017 and directed by Dean Israelite, begins with the failure of a previous generation of heroes. The main characters go on to uncover buried spaceships that house all the answers to the powers they have been bestowed. Their conflicts…
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