Jacob Boon

Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball’s colour barrier in the routine, but charismatic 42. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (a blubbering crank of a Harrison Ford) decides to stir the pot by hiring a negro player, against the advice and threats of his league, his advisors and most of the baseball-attending public. Playing in the […]

Those unfamiliar with the original may shrug off this remake of Evil Dead as a sub-par Cabin in the Woods knockoff. Unfortunately, they’d be right. Over thirty years since the original, director Fede Alvarez updates the classic tale of five young adults travelling to an isolated cabin who awake a demonic presence. Some of Sam […]

Florida’s one big dick, just waiting to get sucked in the candy-coated sexploitation romp, Spring Breakers. Director Harmony Korine assembles a gang of bored college coeds (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine) who rob a diner to bankroll the best spring break ever. Comfortable showcasing society’s absurd ugliness, Korine is at home […]

Don’t let “based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer,” scare you off. The Twilight author’s helpless touch is nowhere near the surprising sci-fi romance The Host. That’s likely due to screenwriter and director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War), who tells the tale of a passive alien invasion that replaces people with the pleasantly polite […]

The White House is being held hostage, so it’s up to ex-Secret Service agent Gerard Butler to save the day in the aggressively stupid Olympus Has Fallen. Donning balaclavas, stealing airplanes and using suicide bombers, the North Korean military unit invading Washington are the ultimate form of evil terrorists. They even shoot a puppy as […]

Bad jokes meet vibrant visuals in the (spoiler warning) historically inaccurate CGI kids flick, The Croods. Emma Stone voices Eep, the broad-shouldered teenage daughter of the modern Stone Age family Crood. Overprotected her whole life by her worrisome father (Nicholas Cage), Eep’s dreams of adventure aren’t satisfied by short daily food hunts. After a cataclysmic […]

Family can be deadly, or at the very least mysterious, in the magnificent Stoker. Quiet teenager India is about to celebrate her 18th birthday when her dear father perishes in a horrific car crash. While her mother (Nicole Kidman) briefly mourns, a suspicious uncle no one’s ever mentioned before moves into the family estate, and […]

Universities receive thousands of applications every year, so its best for the Princeton staff in Admission not to get too attached to any one candidate. Pity then Tina Fey, starring as an overworked admissions officer who inadvertently discovers a promising college applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption decades ago. Paul Rudd […]