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AMC: A glistening shrine to movies

AMC: A glistening shrine to movies

Gavin Gaddis, Staff writer September 1, 2016

The AMC movie theater location on Pearl Drive spent most of the summer at limited capacity during a major remodel.   Now that the AMC is firing on all cylinders I felt obliged to review the...

Watsky wows with ‘x Infinity’

Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer August 23, 2016

Usually, I can’t stand listening to the same album more than a couple of times in a given week. George Watsky’s new album “x Infinity” has been out for a week and I’m up to 11 full listens....

Sausage Party, painfully un-funny

Gavin Gaddis, Staff writer August 17, 2016

"Sausage Party" is the film equivalent of jangling keys in front of a baby’s face for entertainment, or to put that in modern terms: an Adam Sandler movie. The first widely-released computer-generated...

Jungle Book oddly casted

‘Jungle Book’ oddly casted

Gavin Gaddis, Staff writer April 20, 2016

“The Jungle Book” tells a good story with gorgeous visuals and great acting. A child will love this film; an adult who’s seen multiple movies by the big-name actors won’t be able to separate the...

‘Hardcore Henry’ delivers flaccid action, pacing

Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer April 13, 2016

As a gamer, I bought into the idea that an entirely first-person action film could be good. I still do, but “Hardcore Henry” takes this interesting idea and delivers a mediocre action comedy experience. For...

‘Meet the Blacks’: I walked out

Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer April 6, 2016
“Meet the Blacks” is the first film I’ve ever walked out of. Read on to find out why.

‘Superman Vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice’: Three movies crammed in one

Gavin Gaddis, Opinion Editor March 29, 2016
Somewhere in this bloated hulk of a film are two interesting superhero stories and a cool origin movie.

‘Peanuts’ perfection

Abigail, Suddarth March 23, 2016
After laughing until their sides hurt, audiences left “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead” grief-stricken and in tears.

‘Allegiant’: an ugly, lazy film.

Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer March 23, 2016
“The Divergent Series: Allegiant” is probably the best comedy of 2016. It’s a pity the cast and crew attempted an action film out of it. I almost felt bad laughing out loud during multiple scenes.

’10 Cloverfield Lane’: Go for the Goodman

Gavin Gaddis, Staff Writer March 18, 2016

My feelings on “10 Cloverfield Lane” are, in a word, complicated. The film tells the story of Michelle, a woman who wakes chained to a pipe after a car crash. A suspicious figure named Howard (John...

“Gods of Egypt’: heretical cinema

Gavin Gaddis, Opinion Editor March 2, 2016
Who knew movies this bad could exist without adapting a book?

‘The Witch’: A frightening February flick

Bobby Shipman, Staff Writer February 24, 2016

It’s been a hot minute since a truly chilling horror movie has come along. Robert Eggers’ Puritan pandemonium flick about a rascally forest dweller tormenting a family of 1630s Christians is not that...

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