SXSW Film Review: ‘Burma’ with Christopher Abbott
Burma is my favorite kind of movie. It’s one of those movies that offer a glimpse into the lives of other people. A brief look […]
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SXSW Film Review: ‘The Wait’ starring Chloë Sevigny
For the first time, PopBytes is covering South by Southwest (SXSW), the film, music and interactive festival where everyone in any of these industries flock […]
Review: Oz the Great and Powerful
Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain Oz the Great and Powerful has it’s moments … if you can ignore its title star. […]
‘Warm Bodies’ …. more like ‘Lukewarm Bodies’
Warm Bodies is one of those movies that you neither love nor hate. It’s like that moment at the end of each Project Runway episode, […]
‘Pitch Perfect’ Hits All The Right Notes
“Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man singing a cappella.” If you’ve ever gone to a college that has an […]
Review: The Dark Knight Rises
Batman’s Back, Alright! The third film in a trilogy is by far the hardest to do right. You have to conclude the arc you’ve set […]
Now Playing: Moonrise Kingdom, Spider-Man, Savages
So it seems I’ve been on a movie kick lately, apparently there’s a lot of good films playing now, here’s some quick thoughts on three […]
Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
There’s a fundamental problem with Snow White and the Huntsman that anyone who’s seen the trailer or even heard about the casting is all too […]
Don’t miss Jack Black in ‘Bernie’
A few weeks ago I had the chance to see Bernie, director Richard Linklater‘s (The School of Rock, Dazed and Confused) latest film starring Jack […]
Go see ‘The Five-Year Engagement’
The other night I went to an advance screening of The Five-Year Engagement, the new movie from producer Judd Apatow, lo and behold I was […]
What can adults take away from ‘Mirror Mirror’?
Within the first five minutes of Mirror Mirror, it became quite apparent that I was in a children’s movie. No, I was not in a […]
The Art of the Mainstream Movie: 21 Jump Street
Believe it or not, there indeed is an “art” behind the making of a successful mainstream movie. There is a misconception that the only “good” […]