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A Minecraft Movie Rating: 2.5/5 By: Nathaniel Simpson Minecraft is one of the biggest video games in the world, with millions of people playing it everyday and thousands of streamers building their own worlds and collaborating with one another. Therefore, with the abundance of films being adapted from video games, it was inevitable that they would adapt the video game where its players run around building things, mining, and fighting off creepers. However, how are they going to take a game with practically no real plot and turn it into a feature-length film? They try their best here, but even though the film shows that it is having a lot of fun, it's simply all over the place, begging the question of whether or not a film can get by on the basic focus of it being fun. Jack Black plays the iconic character of Steve, who is the main playable character in the video game. In the film, Steve years for the mines, as he says in the beginning before he go...

"Together" Film Review

Together Rating: 4.5/5 By: Nathaniel Simpson Relationships can be messy. For some couples, they start off great, and then they grow to resent each other within ten years' time. That is the case for Dave Franco and Alison Brie's characters in Michael Shanks' Together , a movie that shows off the hardships, trials, and tribulations of a co-dependent couple. Franco and Brie, who are married in real life, do a fantastic job of bringing this couple alive onto the screen, which is brilliantly complemented by Shank's stellar writing and directing. Millie and Tim decide to move to the country, abandoning their lives they had known before in the city. With Millie being a teacher and Tim as a struggling musician, they are both trying to find a balance in their lives as they only thing they now know is each other. While they struggle to make it work, Tim starts to find himself struggling with his own personal issues and feelings towards Millie, which puts a ...

"Little Bird" Short Film Review

Little Bird Rating: 5/5 By: Nathaniel Simpson Like with The Stand , Oanh-Nhi Nguyen's second film that was screened at the HollyShorts Film Festival, titled Little Bird , showcases the Southeast Asian community in a world where we need more representation for this community in the world of film and television. While The Stand showcased a young girl in modern times who is trying to help her mother with her food stand, Little Bird heartbreakingly shows the cruel and unlivable conditions of Vietnamese refugees and how they are being evicted with nowhere else to go. Nguyen truly does a fantastic job of painting this picture of what these refugees had to go through, as well as the emotional turmoil the main character, Linh Tran (Chantal Thuy) goes through in the process of being forced to evict them. This film is inspired by the work that Chinese-American housing organizer, Debbie Wei, did to help refugees and the unfavorable conditions of the ho...

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