TRAVIS BYRAM'S MOVIE REVIEWS

After cleaning up handsomely at the Golden Globes, and getting a whopping twelve nominations at the Academy Awards (with Mad Max: Fury Road coming in a close second place!), the casual moviegoer is probably becoming very intrigued with seeing Alejandro G. Innáritu's The Revenant . On paper it's maybe not such an easy sell: a man is left for dead by a greedy trapper and he has to fight is way back to exact revenge. That's it: a fairly simple plot. So is it worth your dollar? Absolutely: if you don't mind a little blood. And by a little I mean one of the most violent movies I saw in the 2015 movie year, right behind The Hateful Eight but still well in front of Kingsman . It also has some shades of Angelina Jolie's Unbroken . If you hate Leonardo DiCaprio, see this movie, because you get to watch him suffer what regular people would break under: unendurable circumstances. When he's not almost mercy killed by his men he's getting buried alive. When he's no...

What a strange mindset the MPAA must have. I think back to one of my favorite movies of last year, Nebraska , and think; how did that film get an R-rating when it had maybe a handful of HBO words...and how did Unbroken , Angelina Jolie's second directorial effort, get a PG-13, when it has nearly if not more than the amount of torture in last year's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave ? Perhaps it's because you didn't see any blood gushing out, or any severe aftereffects like when Solomon Northup examined Patsy's slashed back, but please be warned parents to think twice before letting your 13 year old see this movie. I wouldn't be such a stickler about this issue, especially violence, which doesn't usually bother me in a non-horror film, because the trailer was rather deceptive. I don't know about the life of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell), just the articles I have read about him and the large press the film has received, mostly because...