Will Sorg – Movie Guy In 1927, for the first time in America, it was possible for the average person to go to a movie and not only see what was happening on screen, but hear it as well. Early talking films were rough, awkward, and gimmicky, but that did not matter to audiences. Talking films immersed audience members even more deeply into the experience … Continue reading Movies From The Library: Singin’ in The Rain

Will Sorg – Movies Guy Danish Filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is a provocateur. Refn, who has recently started being referred to in his work as NWR, is well known for his harsh stylistic tendencies. He has made slow-paced, ultraviolet, neon-colored, nihilistic films his trademark. It seems that with each new project he works on, he tries to push the boundaries of what can be seen … Continue reading Copenhagen Cowboy: A TV show for crazy people

Will Sorg – Movie Guy Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal, coming of age, romance, road trip, horror, drama Bones and All is just as chaotically layered as this description implies. The film follows Maren, played by Taylor Russel, as she travels through the American countryside. Maren is an “Eater,” someone who is a compulsive cannibal unable to control her desire for human flesh. Maren meets … Continue reading Movies From Swank: Bones and All

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist Gustavus’ streaming service Swank has a genuinely impressive library of 2022 movies. There’s a ton of big releases on there right now, from Jurassic World to Nope, but equally impressive is its selection of smaller films from this year. A Love Song premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and is the feature film debut of Max Walker-Silverman. It … Continue reading Movies from Swank: A Love Song

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist Gustavus’ free streaming service Swank has a lot of incredible movies in its library. Lucy is not one of them. Lucy is a 2014 science fiction action film that believes with its entire soul that it is a good movie. Written and directed by Luc Besson and starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, and Korean superstar Choi Min-Sik, Lucy is a … Continue reading Movies From Swank: Lucy

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist The portrayal of a tortured artist’s deteriorating mental state was not a revolutionary idea for a film plot by the 1960s, but Ingmar Bergman’s 1968 film Hour of the Wolf tells this tale in a wholly unique way. Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential directors in cinematic history, the Swedish filmmaker is renowned for his bleak … Continue reading Movies From The Library: Hour of the Wolf

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist Video games are infamously difficult to adapt into anything that is not a video game. With the interactivity of video games, it is hard to take that experience and package them into a more restrictive artform such as film or television. The Castlevania franchise has its roots in a relatively simple formula. In most of the games, the player controls … Continue reading Castlevania: a must-see show for October

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist The Ring, directed by Gore Verbinksi, is one of the most successful horror movies ever made. The film dominated the box office and became a cultural landmark, with countless references and parodies of haunting, long haired girls climbing out of televisions invading every moment of the 2000s. However this film was not the original. Four years prior, Japanese audiences were … Continue reading Movies From The Library: Ringu

Will Sorg – Entertainment Columnist David Robert Mitchell’s low budget, indie horror film It Follows is a perfect example of a cult classic. With a 1 million dollar budget and a modest marketing campaign, the film was able to drum up enough hype to gross over 20 million dollars at the box office. Even now the film is lauded in horror circles as a poster … Continue reading Movies from the Library: It Follows

Will Sorg – Entertainment Writer Four years after 9/11, Ridley Scott made Kingdom of Heaven, a film about The Crusades and the events leading up to the 1187 Siege of Jerusalem, in which the Sunni Muslim ruler Saladin fought against Christian-occupied Jerusalem. Before the film even came out it was mired in controversy. A Daily Telegram writer who had not even seen the film claimed … Continue reading Movies From The Library: Kingdom of Heaven Director’s Cut