Hooking Up Hits Familiar Beats With Fresh Story

Hooking Up manages to hit all the familiar romantic comedy beats while finding a way to freshen up the genre in the film. Darla Beene (Brittany Snow) isn’t your typical writer for a lifestyle magazine.  No, the “Oprah of orgasms” is a sex addict.  It just so happens that her court-ordered sex addict support group shares a building with a cancer support group.  This is how Darla meets Bailey Brighton (Sam Richardson).  While the diagnosis…

"Hooking Up Hits Familiar Beats With Fresh Story"

Independence Day Remains A Classic

Independence Day may be the typical Roland Emmerich disaster film but Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum lift it up. “We will not go quietly into the night!” President Whitmore (Bill Pullman) declares.  Whitmore’s speech will go down in history as one of the greatest presidential speeches of all time.  All across the world, mankind must come together to find for survival.  As with any presidential speech, David Arnold’s score gives the film the…

"Independence Day Remains A Classic"