Category Archives: Reviews
The Croods is fantastic. I love how there are funny and serious parts in the film. The Croods is an animated movie. It’s about a family of cavemen called the Croods. They go about living their normal life and they don’t know their world is about to change. They hunt for food during the day an...
Continue Reading
Olympus Has Fallen is this year’s Independence Day, without all of the special effects. I found the film to be very relevant given all that’s going on in North and South Korea. It’s a scary premise folks, and most likely not that far off from reality. However, I did find it very hard to bel...
Continue Reading
The Call is simply, almost a call to greatness. Halle Berry is perfect for her role as an experienced 911 operator. This thriller/suspense is just that, thrilling and loaded with suspense. I had mediocre expectations for this film but was nicely surprised by its ability to have the viewer experie...
Continue Reading
Nervous anticipation usually accompanies the English-language debut film of a prominent international director – the big business of American movie production has too often resulted in a compromised vision and desaturation of the idiosyncratic talents which gained the artist worldwide notice in...
Continue Reading
MGM's 1939 movie musical The Wizard of Oz is beloved by generations of people and still regarded as a cinematic classic more than seventy years after its original release. As I imagine is the case for many people, the film was one of my earliest childhood memories related to movies, and I still l...
Continue Reading
Best Picture was a particularly contentious category at the 85th Academy Awards. With no clear frontrunner like The Artist last year or The Hurt Locker in 2008, the category actually seemed up for grabs until the waning moments of the ceremony itself. Typically, Best Picture buzz builds for a cer...
Continue Reading
It has been five years since Bryan Singer’s enjoyable WWII spy thriller Valkyrie, but his lack of directorial output is only due to producer duties on a number of films (the X-Men franchise sees him again at the helm in 2014 after Matthew Vaughan’s exemplary X-Men: First Class) and television...
Continue Reading
A young woman seeks refuge in a Southern coastal town in the new movie Safe Haven, based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. Though the film is marketed as an intense love story, I would say that it is only 50% love story and 50% mystery. This is good news for the guys who are forced to see the film by t...
Continue Reading
A suspenseful thriller with political undertones would best describe Steven Soderbergh's film, Side Effects. The film centers on psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) and his moral and legal dilemma after his patient Emily (Rooney Mara) has a severe and life changing reaction to a new anti-d...
Continue Reading
As the saying goes, everything old is new again, and that is more true than ever in Hollywood. And in recent years, it seems to be particularly true with action stars from the 1980s and 1990s. Last month, we saw Arnold Schwarzenegger headline his first movie in a decade with The Last Stand, and l...
Continue Reading
What you are about to read is more of a serious warning, than anything else. Have you ever wanted to un-see something? For those of us that hold the all-star cast of Stand Up Guys in the highest esteem, your image of each of them could be quite possibly changed forever. I envisioned greatness as ...
Continue Reading
