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BEYOND THE LIGHTS Review: Story Light, Star Bright
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 16, 2014
I’ve always had a soft spot for movies where music or musicians are central to the story (favorites include 1982’s Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains; 1984’s This is Spinal Tap; this year’s terrific We Are the Best!; and my top pick, 1996’s That Thing You Do!). read more
WILD Review: Take a Hike
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Dec 14, 2014
I have no regrets in my life. None. While there are times I think a different decision in my past may have resulted in a better outcome, that view is 20/20, and I have always believed the decision I went with at the time was the best one I could have gone with given the knowledge I had. This read more
WHIPLASH Review: Yeah, But Look at the Results
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 28, 2014
One of my favorite childhood memories is the sound of my Babcia’s choir. They sang in Ukrainian, a language I (sadly) never learned, but despite that, just the sound of the collective – the harmony, the power – filled the enormous church and made me feel good. On occasion, I wou read more
DIVORCE CORP. Review: Money Changes Everything
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 22, 2014
Like many other things today, divorce has lost a lot of its societal impact, a lot of its shock value. It wasn’t that long ago – certainly within the lifetimes of people alive now – that divorce was considered shameful and scandalous. Today, divorce is commonly a headline or a read more
THE DOOR Review: Don’t Knock It
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 13, 2014
In addition to Twitter being my primary source for news, reviews, trailers, posters, and everything else film-related, the social media platform is a great place to bear witness to the lifecycle of an independent film – from conception to fundraising to promotion to release to reviews. Via read more
GROW UP, TONY PHILLIPS Review: Forever Young
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 9, 2014
It’s fitting that Halloween is a holiday that celebrates the dead because the day can symbolize something of a dead zone in a person’s life. As kids, we are encouraged at Halloween to dress in costume and go trick-or-treating. As adults, we are encouraged to dress in costume and go read more
GONE GIRL Review: Pedestrian Double-Crossing
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Oct 3, 2014
There’s a scene early in Gone Girl, the film based on the 2012 New York Times best seller (of the same title) written by Gillian Flynn and directed by David Fincher, that occurs after Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) has reported his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), missing. The police have brought Nick into read more
IF I STAY Review: Don’t Just Stay – Stay Away
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Aug 29, 2014
Every so often an actor or actress comes along that finds their way into my blind spot – that place in my cinematic field of vision where I know the name and I probably recognize the face, but I just can’t connect the two. It isn’t a reflection on the talent, it’s simply th read more
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Review: Father Knows Best
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jul 15, 2014
Reading that a film has a “switched at birth” plot usually doesn’t inspire one to clamor for the remote. That theme has been around a long time and invokes thoughts of melodramatic made-for-TV fare or silly switcheroo comedies. But when the “switched at birth” premise read more
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Monkey See, Monkey Do
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jul 11, 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which begins ten years after the end of the action in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, finds humanity all but wiped out. The “Simian Flu” (as the man-made virus came to be known) took a devastating toll on the world’s population, including San Franc read more
DELIVER US FROM EVIL Review: Forgive Them Their Trespasses
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jul 6, 2014
While I cut my horror teeth in the 1970s on Hammer films and public domain cheesefests on TV, my introduction to serious horror was with William Friedkin‘s The Exorcist (1973). I saw it on VHS, and it scared me so that for years I avoided watching it again, even when it was a popular rental read more
EDGE OF TOMORROW Review: It’ll Be Just Like Starting Over
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jun 8, 2014
When my children were younger, and as cliché as it sounds, I occasionally said to them, “When I was a kid …,” which I followed with something completely archaic, like, “… we only had three TV networks, PBS, and a few UHF channels.” (If you don’t know what read more
KUNG FU ELLIOT Review: Black Belts, White Lies
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Jun 5, 2014
For as long as there has been Fame, there have been people clamoring for Fame. As time has passed, and as Fame has gradually and grotesquely morphed into the monster known as Celebrity, getting it has become easier than ever. Affordable audio/visual technology and the Internet allow for the masses read more
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Review: A Tangled Web
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on May 21, 2014
As a reformed comic book collector (casually as a kid in the ’70s and then seriously in my teens and young adulthood in the ’80s and ’90s), there will forever be a small part of me that wants any cinematic adaptation of a comic book (or its characters and/or story lines) to remain read more
MILLION DOLLAR ARM Review: Don’t Hate the Game, Hate the Player
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on May 18, 2014
When you think about it, a large percentage of movies that are easily classified within certain genres are relatively predictable. Action movies, horror movies, and romantic comedies (to name three big ones) usually contain certain genre-specific elements, follow genre-specific beats and structure read more
BLUE RUIN Review: Success Is the Best Revenge
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on May 16, 2014
I’ve always thought that revenge movies resonate with viewers more than any other genre of film because there is something about what goes on in the revenge genre that people can easily relate to, yet it has a desired resolution that is just out of people’s reach. It isn’t like read more
NEIGHBORS Review: A Better Fence Would Have Made Better Neighbors
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on May 9, 2014
I give Zac Efron a lot of credit. After a string of single-episode appearances on numerous TV shows, the talented young star made it big as Troy Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical franchise. Since the 2008 conclusion to that trilogy, Efron has appeared in a dozen films, and his role cho read more
ODD THOMAS Review: The Quirk and the Dead
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Apr 30, 2014
For as long as movies have dealt with death, denizens of the afterlife have been in movies, and those denizens have taken on every form imaginable – from angels good (Clarence from 1946′s It’s a Wonderful Life) to angels bad (Gabriel from 1995′s The Prophecy), and from inani read more
THE QUIET ONES Review: Hammer Time
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Apr 27, 2014
When I was a kid, I cut my horror teeth in the 1970s on weekly Saturday afternoon UHF programs. One was called Creature Double Feature (Channel 48) and the other was a pair of shows – Mad Theater and Horror Theater (Channel 17) – hosted by a character named Dr. Shock (Joe Zawislak). read more
DOM HEMINGWAY Review: Sometimes Bad Is Bad
ScribeHard on Film Posted by Michael Nazarewycz on Apr 13, 2014
Everybody loves a good bad guy, and Hollywood history is full of great ones representing all eras and genres: - 1930s horror: Bela Lugosi as 1931′s titular Dracula - 1940s noir: Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson in 1944′s Double Indemnity - 1950s drama: Burt Lancaster as J.J. Huns read more