The 2015 Film That Made Bron Cry: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
January 18th, 2016 by Bron Anderson
There are two small, but deeply touching moments in Star Wars: The Force Awakens that played the right note on my sense of nostalgia and simultaneously confirmed the true feeling of humanity that was restored to the Star Wars franchise in 2015. I will discuss both of the moments below, but first I want to give a shout out to Shohan Cagle for detailing fairly precisely the same reasons that Inside Out would have been the movie I wrote about in this column if I didn’t choose the one I did. Please go check out his contribution to this “Why We are So Blue” set of articles on this website. Continue reading ‘The 2015 Film That Made Bron Cry: Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
Umbrella sword in hand, the titular Lady Snowblood carves a bloody path to blu-ray at last. Masterfully reproduced in all it’s gloriously vibrant violence, Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance serve as wonderfully entertaining, timeless, and influential stories of fate, lineage, strife, revenge, exploitation, and ultra-violent retribution. Heavily inspiring Tarantino’s 
Generally speaking these types of survival films don’t really interest me. But considering the amount of next level talent involved such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, and Jason Clarke I figured that it might be worth checking out. And I’m really glad that I did! When I saw this movie in the theaters the nearest option was to see it in 3D. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of 3D so I wasn’t exactly stoked to see it this way. But I gotta say, the 3D experience for this film is WELL worth it! They take advantage of the wide sweeping shots from the climbers perspective that provides a captivating visual experience. Though some scenes do rely on CGI to fill out a few spots, it’s done sparingly and never takes you out of the moment. The 3D gives you so much more depth and scope that you wouldn’t quite get in the standard format. 
I’ve been asked what made me sad in comics in 2015, and it took about two seconds consideration to come to my conclusion. Jason Aaron’s The Mighty Thor. Let me be clear about one thing right off the hammer, I wasn’t sad about the delivery, the script, the art, the plot, or the direction. There’s nothing wrong with the comic. It’s actually what’s so devastatingly right about it that got to me. 
Be warned, there are spoilers ahead for Inside Out. There’s just no way to talk about this movie and why it effected me so much without going into the details.
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has a trailer that screams unmistakably this was made by Sir Michael Bay. That could either be a good thing or a bad one. If you think the first Transformers flick or The Island in my case, then that’s good. However, if you think the last three Transformers films, then that’s very bad. I digress. Let’s give the guy the benefit of the doubt here. Say what you want about the man, but Michael Bay knows how to deliver on the balls-to-the-wall action in films. That much you can take to the bank. So getting back to what I originally was saying, I like military films, and the trailer for this one was pretty rad, so yeah…I’m thinking I want to watch 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi despite it being a January release. 
He was never caught… 
The future is yours with time travel and a killer robot! Scream Factory presents a sci-fi double feature to shout about when Millennium & R.O.T.O.R. come to 
All one really needs to do is take a glance at the box art for the Blu-ray of Get Mean to make the decision that it is going to be awesome. Look at that box art! A four barreled shotgun? A man draped in sticks of TNT? And then the young woman in one of those classic “John Carter of Mars” poses? All of these elements spell greatness. It shouldn’t even matter that the film itself is even more ridiculous than the box art, you already know you are going to be in for a crazy time. Let’s get mean. 
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