2014 Film Reviews
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy In 1973, a military program was given the green light to create Sentinels, highly sophisticated robots whose sole purpose was to protect humans from what the government saw as the ever-growing threat of mutants. Now fifty years later, these Sentinels have dangerously evolved to hunt down not only mutants, but any humans […]
Maleficent (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Maleficent, virtuous and kindhearted, grew up to be the most powerful fairy in the Moors, a wooded, magical domain that neighbored a human kingdom. For many years the two worlds lived next to one another in peace, but when a greedy human king attempts to conquer her beloved home, Maleficent comes to […]
The Railway Man (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Eric Lomax, a former British World War II officer, has spent his time after the war desperately trying to overcome the horrors inflicted on him by his Japanese captors while a prisoner of war. After a chance encounter with a beautiful woman, Eric is given a sliver of hope to escape his […]
Godzilla (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Since his first onscreen introduction way back 1954, when it comes to monster movies, there is literally no bigger figure than Godzilla. Even without any real knowledge of his story, just saying his name conjures up images of his menacing presence and the path of destruction left in his wake. Not being […]
About Last Night (2014)
Review by-Jarrett Leahy Based on the David Mamet play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” and borrowing from the 1986 romantic comedy of the same name starring Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, About Last Night tells the story of Bernie (Kevin Hart) and Danny (Michael Ealy), best friends whose late night, alcohol fueled escapades are put in jeopardy when […]
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