Generally, headphones can be a tricky thing. I’ve been an audiophile for a long time now. With christmas over and my Beats by Dre headphones on their last leg, i decided it was time to finally buy another pair. I wanted to get a good bluetooth pair, but being short on cash, I […]
Review By Fred Topel Many have already called Into the Woods the Avengers of fairy tales, but the idea of character mashups dates back to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, and I’m sure even further. Godzilla got in on it with the Japanese Kaiju battles and even fought King Kong at one point.
Review by Fred Topel The Night at the Museum sequels both improved on the original simply because they were driven by a single night, not a newbie learning the rules over a series of nights. The original should have been called 3 Nights at the Museum, so the sequels are more accurately singular. Secret of […]
Review by Fred Topel I liked the new Annie. Some of the updates don’t work, like at all, but it’s still Annie and still the music, no matter how much they try to remix it. Every time there was a glaring mistake, it got back to the Annie story, and some of the mistakes are […]
Review By Fred Topel Unbroken would have been a badass action movie if it weren’t the actually true harrowing story of Louis Zamperini. In fact, it’s almost cheating to start out with a story this good, because Zamperini’s life is better than most Hollywood scripts. Lots of movies are based on extraordinary true stories though […]
Review by Fred Topel Exodus? More like Eh-Xodus. Exodus: Gods and Kings succeeds in doing the action movie version of the Bible, but in doing so it becomes very detached. As just another historical epic with some cool special effects, it doesn’t hold up without the philosophical reason for creating the spectacle. Spoiler alert, not […]
Review By Fred Topel For those of you who are new to my writing, I have not been a fan of the Hobbit movies. I reviewed the first two for Crave Online, and I kept hoping with the second or third I could say, “They really turned this ship around,” but they didn’t. In fact, […]