My main takeaway with this film is that Kaitlyn Dever could have absolutely gotten away with being the third Panabaker sister if she was a Disney Channel star in the mid-2000’s

Though the comparisons to other high school coming-of-age movies are inevitable, Booksmart brings us a more unique look at the genre through the eyes of characters not regularly showcased on the big screen as we follow them on their last hoorah before graduation.

“Coming out” has seemingly been the…

The motion-capture era of Robert Zemeckis' career certainly stands out, for better or for worse, among all of his others. Being one of the first directors to truly embrace the style, he decided to begin creating entire features with this new tool that had, up until that point, only been used in the special effects world.

Through his ImageMovers Productions banner, he created and released the world's first entirely motion-capture film with 2004's The Polar Express. After that, he chose an…

* A quick backstory on my history with The Way Way Back and what my “favorite movie” means to me: https://boxd.it/lVENF

Coming off of Sam Rockwell’s Oscar winning performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, I’m hoping that more people will begin to venture back through his filmography and stumble upon The Way Way Back. Not only is it a personal favorite of mine, but it’s also a showcase of some of the most talents actors working today in both comedy…

The addition of Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe was certainly a welcome move in my mind. Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films holds a special place in my heart, and are, for the most part, my idea of a perfect superhero movie. But given the giant impact that superhero movies, and Marvel especially, have had on popular culture recently, I was interested to see how well the web-slinger would translate into this preestablished world.

I love the idea of finally seeing Peter…