Rango is a 3d animated film about a city slicker chameleon who gets lost in a desert and must learn to adapt to his surroundings in order to survive. He stumbles into this rundown western town, where he meets the townsfolk and tries to adopt their lifestyle. In his quest for purpose, he makes a name for himself as the sheriff, fighting against the many threats that oppose the town.
As we go forward into the future of cinema, it…
A Week Away is a teen musical with an emphasis on Christian beliefs. A bad boy troublemaker gets sent to a Christian summer camp for a week to avoid punishment for various crimes he had committed. At first, our main character is skeptical of the whole ordeal and only wants to avoid a harsher punishment, he starts to learn that there may be more to life than breaking the rules. Along the way, he meets many new faces, some become…
Holes is an adventure film released in 2003 based on a book by the same name published in 1998. It is a coming of age story, telling the tale of Stanley Yelnats, a teen who was wrongly convicted of stealing a pair of signed baseball sneakers. He gets sentenced to 18 months of Camp Green Lake, a program in which children dig holes in the dried-up remains of the lake. During his months spent there digging holes, he makes friends…
When I bring up the name Jack Black, one of three movies should come to your mind: Nacho Libre, Kung Fu Panda, and what is often considered his greatest film, School of Rock. School of Rock is a comedy/coming of age story, where failed guitarist Dewey Finn finds a job as a substitute teacher and slowly starts forming a rock band with his students. It is a pretty bizarre plot with some unrealistic moments, but realism in that aspect doesn't…
