Author Archive: Liz Parker
Liz is our regular movie reviewer and writes for her own film blog, Yes/No Films, as well as The NYLA Report, FREEISMYLIFE, and the Detroit Examiner. You can follow her on Facebook and on Twitter.
Movie Review | Iron Man 3
We last saw Tony Stark in The Avengers, but he’s now back in an Iron Man-only movie, Iron Man 3. Although the film makes repeated references to events that happened in the previous movie, this film can definitely be seen as a stand-alone movie; for those that are familiar with the series, however, it [...]
Movie Review | Starbuck
The director of Starbuck, Ken Scott, is remaking the film in English with an American cast, which I found to be interesting because I had never heard of a director remaking his own film before. That movie, called The Delivery Man, will be out this October and stars Vince Vaughn as the main character, [...]
Movie Review | Disconnect
I had a feeling that Disconnect was going to be similar to 2010′s Trust, a movie about online predators that was partially filmed in Michigan, and it is, although the type of predators is different in each – the one bad guy in Trust is a sexual predator preying on young girls online, and [...]
Movie Review | Oblivion
I saw Oblivion on a Tuesday night, and by Wednesday afternoon I was still mulling it over my head, trying to put together some of the pieces. It’s a sci-fi movie with a bit of action thrown in, and there’s a major plot twist that complicates the entire movie. After talking the film over [...]
Movie Review | G.I. Joe: Retaliation
The first G.I. Joe movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, came out in August 2009, when I was a very recent college graduate still living in Ann Arbor and car-less, so I wasn’t able to see it. G.I. Joe: Retaliation, however, has an almost completely different cast, and definitely stands out on its [...]
