TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

I guess dreams really do come true!  Just last week I posted my desires to see "Spring Breakers," honestly thinking it'd be months before I could rent the film by controversial director Harmony Korine on DVD.   I got a little too excited when I realized it received a wide release, because really who would want to hide a movie like this?  I went into "Spring Breakers" with the full knowledge it was going to be a crazy film.  I was wrong.  "Spring Breakers" is not a crazy film.   It is the craziest film. Initially we're showed a rapid montage of repeating images of scantily clad women and douches looking like they're having the time of their lives on spring break.  This is a recurring motif in "Spring Breakers," the idea that these kids are having "the time of their lives," when it's no more than potentially lethal intakes of booze, coke, and college boys, who will, to put it kindly, degrade you and use you for a one nig...

It's a rather dry movie news week so far, since I've never seen "Veronica Mars," so I wanted to take a brief little post to talk about a movie I am unabashedly seeing be it with friends or myself if it's playing in my area to see: "Spring Breakers."  I'll give you the trailer link here so in case you haven't heard of it, but if you're even remotely interested in current releases, you'll know the film.  I first was alerted of this masterpiece by Phillip DeFranco, my favorite YouTube news reporter, who linked to the trailer in the description.  I watched it and....my mind was blown. On a serious note, I love when actors are cast against type.  I especially love it when actors are cast against type as villains.  Oh, I eat that up.  Mo'Nique in "Precious."  Leonardo DiCaprio in "Django Unchained."  Those are the characters you walk out of the movie remembering.  So when I saw James Franco's name mentioned by Phi...

It's been a while since we've seen old James Franco in something big.  I tried to think back....and flashbacks of the Oscars, ones that I've tried to suppress for going on three years now.  After a bit of crying and some warm milk I felt better and thought of what movies he'd been in; "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."  He and the girl from "Slumdog Millionaire" were perfectly fine in that...but they were both completely upstaged by the main ape that ignited the revolution: Andy Serkis as Caesar.  I'm sad to report, ladies and gentleman, that James Franco has once again been upstaged by a motion-capture monkey, this time voiced by Zach Braff. Franco better realize this trend before he signs up to do a "King Kong" remake, and perhaps take some lessons on how to be less of a stiff when the cameras roll.  We all can recall the charismatic showman who appeared behind the curtain at the end of the 1939's "The Wizard of Oz."  H...