Tag: dylanobrien
SATURDAY NIGHT Review: Jason Reitman Gives SNL the Hagiographic Treatment
For pre-cable or Internet audiences of a certain vintage and generation, the arrival of a late-night, weekly sketch comedy show, Saturday Night (Live), represented keenly subversive, self-aware, comically absurdist counter-cultural programming. It was the last, sustained gasp of one generation’s...
Review: THE OUTFIT, Twisty Crime-Thriller Never Fails to Impress
Graham Moore has had something of a meteoric rise — if ten years counts as a meteoric rise, that is — as a published author-turned-filmmaker. Beginning with a well-regarded, commercially successful, historical detective novel, The Sherlockian, more than a decade...
Review: FLASHBACK, Aka, 2021: A Space-Time Odyssey
Dylan O'Brien, Maika Monroe and Amanda Brugel star in a dramatic thriller, written and directed by Christopher MacBride.
Review: DEEPWATER HORIZON, Heroes At the Mouth of Hell
Six years ago, nightmare images of an oil rig burning at night in the Gulf Coast seared themselves into memory. The fire raged high and furious against a pitch-black landscape, leaving one to wonder just what had happened ... and...
Review: MAZE RUNNER: SCORCH TRIALS Leads to Zombies And War
The messages and metaphors of young adult fiction might be blunt enough to leave a mark as they hit you over the head, but the teen target audience doesn't seem to mind. Perhaps that's because the messages and metaphors, true...
Review: THE MAZE RUNNER Will Find Its Way To The Right Audience
The Maze Runner is yet another young adult trilogy that has been adapted to film. Similar themes of science fiction and dystopia that are rife in The Hunger Games and Divergent films are on full display here. Despite all...