"Ever since you were born I wanted to protect my little ghoul. So I created a place where all monsters could be safe from them."

I love monsters. Both old and new, I've been in love with monsters for as long as I can remember. There were the Friday night Creature Features with Dr. Shock. My Dad and I would watch the old Universal classics, and while I didn't know it then, I was getting my first lessons in cinema. I was being groomed to become the film lover I am today. I still love monsters even when they're making us laugh (preferably on purpose).

Pitch Perfect is the best big-screen a cappella comedy I’ve ever seen. Of course, the new film pretty much wins that title by default because the hyper-competitive world of collegiate a cappella has been largely ignored by the movies. To make up for that oversight, Pitch Perfect tries to cram all aca-related matters into one movie. The result is a slightly flabby 112-minute running time. Fortunately(?), I’ve been to enough a cappella competitions to appreciate the fact that the movie gets a lot of things right. (Including the annoying habit aca-people have of sticking “aca” in front of everything.)

"Time travel has not been invented.  But thirty years from now, it will have been."

What I like most about writer and director Rian Johnson is his ability to tackle a genre that has been recycled and done to death and deliver a film that is fresh and unique.  His first film Brick reimagined film noir and his second feature outing The Brothers Bloom gave us a heist film that was smart, sweet and classy.  In his third feature outing he is setting out to deliver his most ambitious film but also his most accessible film.