You Con Do It: A Veteran’s Guide to Conventioning
Conventions: the gathering place of all things nerdy and fantasy-based. Whether it’s for comics, video games, horror movies, or just movies in general (we tend…
Total Recall, why the remake?
What a dark two months it has been. After such a long absence, I began to question whether or not I’d ever have anything to…
‘Blood on the Plain’ packs ample promise into a short runtime
Blood on the Plain Directed by Mac Eldridge Written by Angel Esparza 2012, USA Film school can be a rough place. Everybody is working to…
Catching Up with a Classic: ‘The Third Man’ exists to impress, over and over again
Throughout January, SOS writers will be biting the bullet and finally sitting down with a film they feel like bad film buffs for not having…
Five least-anticipated films of 2012
Here we are, a brand-new year full of brand-new movies (or brand-new versions of old movies). 2011 is behind us and we’ve got a clean…
‘My Week with Marilyn’ a valiant effort, but not valiant enough
My Week with Marilyn Directed by Simon Curtis Written by Adrian Hodges USA, 2011 Marilyn Monroe is an American icon. To this day, there are…
The ‘Twilight’ Formula: A Writer’s Guide to Mammoth Success
With Breaking Dawn raking in a cool $139.5 million at the box office weekend, the word is officially out: Twilight is the thing to be.…
‘Tyrannosaur’ a brutal triumph
Tyrannosaur Written and directed by Paddy Considine UK, 2011 As film watchers, it’s in our nature to look away. Most of us don’t venture to…
47th Chicago Film Festival Wrap Up: Top 5 Films
It’s been a bit now since the Chicago International Film Festival closed up after another great year. And with any festival’s conclusion comes the inevitable…
Interview With Matthew Bate, the Director of ‘Shut Up Little Man!’
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure is a great documentary. It succeeds because of its efforts to take two men who most viewed as…
‘Into the Abyss’ – an emotionally devastating work
Into the Abyss Written and directed by Werner Herzog USA, 2011 Documentaries have an amazing power about them. In such a short amount of time,…
47th Chicago Film Festival: ‘The Three Musketeers’ just isn’t worth it
The Three Musketeers Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson USA, 2011 Alexandre Dumas’ tale of the Three Musketeers is quite probably the quintessential swashbuckler. It’s been…
