Review: HUGO

So, Scorsese decided to direct a kid’s movie… when I first saw the trailer for Hugo I wasn’t quite sure what to think of this fact. It looked like a Spielberg movie, a big budget, techno-family epic, and in 3D!!! What was Marty, the Gangster Priest, the King of Gritty, the man with more four-letter words in his movies than an entire season of South Park combined doing? Was he back on coke perhaps? Amazingly the result was a film very different from any of his previous films, and yet very much like them at the same time; this is not a children’s movie by Scorsese but a Scorsese movie for children.

Review: SHUTTER ISLAND

I can’t recall the last time one movie made every person in the theater jump at the same time; I mean every single person. Most horror movies make a few girls scream but most just turn their heads to the side and try not to look. This is not the case in Shutter Island; the film is so compelling that you are forced to watch and when the moment to jump arrives there is no way around it: you jump.