Author Archive: Elizabeth Parker
Movie Review | Madagascar 3
To prepare for a screening of the third installment, I decided to rewatch the first two Madagascar movies. To educate the uninitiated, the Madagascar films follow a hippo, a giraffe, a zebra, and a lion, who lived in the Central Park Zoo in NYC but somehow found themselves in Madagascar (movie #1) and then Africa (movie #2). In the [...]
Movie Review | Dark Shadows
The TV spots for Dark Shadows make it seem like it’s going to be a comedy, but in reality, it’s more like a drama with some laughs thrown in; an extremely campy drama, too, although the TV show upon which it is based was supposedly very campy as well. The show ran from 1966 to 1971, [...]
Movie Review | Titanic 3D (2012)
I have been obsessed with both the actual story of the Titanic and the movie Titanic since the film premiered in December 1997, when I was almost eleven years old, and to see it again on the big screen was definitely a treat. Titanic‘s proof of success is that it reigned at the box office as the highest grossing [...]
Movie Review | Wanderlust
I watched both the regular and the “red band” (R-rated) trailers for Wanderlust before the screening, but the movie was even raunchier than its trailers led me to believe. Most of the time the jokes in it were pretty funny, though, and the audience was laughing throughout the film. Although the movie held my interest for most [...]
Movie Review | Real Steel
Real Steel just might be the most unique movie of the year. I had decent expectations for it, since it’s a Disney/Dreamworks movie, but the actual film blew those expectations out of the water, and it is one of the most enjoyable movies I have seen in 2011 thus far. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”), [...]
