Articles tagged with: movies
By Emily Hoover | ehoover@flagler.edu
Gregory von Hausch, director of the Flagler Film Festival, said the goal of the festival, is drawn simply in the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival’s slogan: “Vacation from ordinary films.”
The four-day event begins on Sept. 30 and concludes on Oct. 3 and all of the films are shown on Flagler campus. It is a spin-off of the Fort Lauderdale festival and will continue on a three year cycle.
By Liliana Cerquozzi | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Put aside your ideas about John Travolta after seeing him dress up as an obnoxious mother in “Hairspray” and go see “From Paris With Love.” Your entire view on him will change as you watch him be a trigger-happy, wise-cracking loose cannon who gets rid of terrorists.
By Kaitlyn Teabo | kteabo@flagler.edu
Team Jacob fans are howling for New Moon, the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s series Twilight.
By Lawrence Griffin | gargoyle@flagler.edu
2012 features huge explosions of the earth as it falls apart. Roland Emmerich has pretty much created the be-all-end-all disaster film. Anything else he does will just seem like a regression now, because the scope of this film is just too huge for it to be topped again.
By Lawrence Griffin | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Don’t you love shaky camera movies? They force the directors to be so creative and innovative – and I do not mean in the stories themselves.
By Lawrence Griffin | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It’s all the rage in these times of economic crisis to make movies and books about the possibility of the ever-looming zombie apocalypse. And it is only fitting that in this time of zombie obsession, right at its twilight, comes “Zombieland,” a movie that isn’t at all afraid to be a trendy pile of pop culture insanity, and also one that remains very enjoyable while being exactly that.
By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It’s apparent that slapstick legend Adam Sandler has grown up. It’s ironic, however, that he enlists Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, the quintessential heroes of today’s American farce, to help in his latest film. Funny People is funny, sure, but it’s also personal and melancholy.
