In reviewing Matt Reeves’ film Let Me In, I found myself in a very tough spot. Typically, I take into account the original film when talking about a remake. However, the Swedish film that Let Me In is based upon, Let The Right One In, is so fantastic that it would be unfair to compare [...]
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Movie Review: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Every generation has a movie that defines the time we live in. It is significant as a film but it is also a representation of our culture. Arguably, the greatest influence of the modern era was the birth of the Internet which has completely changed the way we live, work, and play. The online world [...]
Movie Review: WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS
Many years ago, financial hawk Gordon Gekko was on top of the world. Running the stock market makes any man powerful, but Gekko couldn’t have enough. He made mistakes, and ended up in jail. On the outside, his family was in shambles. His daughter, Winnie, resented her father for not being there for the family. [...]
Movie Review: DEVIL
Devil was one of the most shockingly good horror/thriller movies to come out lately. As many of them have scare gimmicks (movies shot like documentaries) or are loaded with gut-churning gore (Saw, Nanny McPhee), Devil doesn’t need any of those things to impress. Sure, they could have shown some graphic deaths in the movie, or [...]
Movie Review: MACHETE
Three years after the murder of his family, an unassuming Federali-turned-day-laborer (Danny Trejo) in Texas is suddenly swept into a bloody assassination plot involving an ambitious politician (Robert DeNiro), the politician’s greedy, conniving assistant (Jeff Fahey), a drug lord (Steven Seagal), a homicidal border patrol vigilante (Don Johnson), a shotgun-toting priest (Cheech Marin), a hot [...]
Movie Review: THE LAST EXORCISM
A minster who has lost some of his faith agrees to let a camera crew film his last exorcism. Believing that exorcism is a fraud, Reverend Cotton Marcus sets out to show the world what it truly is. On his last case Marcus meets the Sweetzer family and their daughter Nell whom they believe to [...]
Movie Review: SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
Director Edgar Wright isn’t very well-known in Hollywood. Although he’s had comedic success with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, he hasn’t done any other mainstream projects. Enter Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a comic telling the story of a young 20-something who meets the woman of his dreams, only to find out her [...]
Movie Review: THE OTHER GUYS
The Other Guys has a lot going on. First, it’s the first venture into action-comedy by director Adam McKay. Second, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg constantly trade comedic barbs at one another, stressing the comedy aspect of the film. Third, the storyline begins simplistic, gets jumbled and eventually ties back together. A lot of comedy [...]
Movie Review: DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS
Dinner for Schmucks stars Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, and Zach Galifianakis. Rudd stars as the main character of the story and his main goals throughout the movie are to get promoted at his job, and marry his girlfriend who is played by Stephanie Szostak. After impressing his boss, Rudd’s character is offered a promotion, but [...]
Movie Review: INCEPTION
You know the feeling after you wake up from a dream and your uncertainty of weather what you just experienced was real or all in your head? That is the concept that director Christopher Nolan’s latest masterpiece Inception is built upon. When you suddenly wake up from a dream, or even a nightmare, you typically [...]
Movie Review: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE
The ultimate failure a movie can succumb to is the inability to entertain. That is why we go to watch movies, right? We want to be taken away to another world, one where we actually believe sorcerers and magic and epic battles really exist. This problem is the downfall for Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. It [...]
Movie Review: PREDATORS
I’m something of an expert on the Predator mythos as my love affair with all things Predator goes back roughly 22 years. I had both Predator and Predator 2 virtually memorized before my voice had even begun to crack in puberty. At the age of 12, while all of my friends were reading “X-Men” and [...]
Movie Review: THE LAST AIRBENDER
In a world where the elements are wielded by those called “benders”, young Aang is the successor to a long line of Avatars. The Avatar is supposed to be the one being that can bend all four elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth. His presence has been foretold to unite the elemental tribes and [...]
Movie Review: TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE
When it comes to reviewing a movie like Twilight: Eclipse, it is difficult to separate the film from the cannon upon which it is based. Basically, to objectively critique the film, I have to put aside my stance on the series and look at the movie individually. In the third installment of the Twilight series, [...]
Movie Review: KNIGHT AND DAY
After a decade of Spy-on-the-run flicks ranging from the entertaining ( The BOURNE Series) to the mundane (KILLERS). Let’s stop kidding ourselves, they didn’t do whatever the government suits claim they did. If they did though, it wasn’t for the reasons given. In KNIGHT AND DAY, Tom Cruise plays a super spy hunted by the [...]
Movie Review: TOY STORY 3
Woody, Buzz and the gang return for the third installment of the secret life of toys in TOY STORY 3. Andy is all grown up and heading off to college. Through the years he has matured and needed his toys less and less. Only a few remain from the first film and they are preparing [...]
Movie Review: THE A-TEAM
Summer is a good time to go to the movies and unwind. Beat the heat and the sun by sitting in a nice air conditioned theater and watch a flick for two hours. That is why popcorn flicks, or movies that are meant to be entertaining and fun, are best marketed for summer. When Joe [...]
Movie Review: KILLERS
While on vacation in France, Jen (Katherine Heigl) meets the man of her dreams and falls head over heels. Though her new beau is not all that he seems to be. Spencer ( Ashton Kutcher) seems like a mild mannered consultant, but underneath he is a cool and collected secret agent with a license to [...]
Movie Review: IRON MAN 2
Industrialist/ Superhero Tony Stark returns in the action packed summer blockbuster IRON MAN 2. Tony Stark is viewed by many as a force for peace in the world with his Iron Man armor. The US Government demands that he give over the technology, but as you may recall, Tony is out of the weapons making [...]
Movie Review: THE LOSERS
THE LOSERS is a film adaption of a Vertigo comic book. The story centers around a squad of a CIA black ops team of the same name. While on a mission The Losers find themselves in a situation that they can not walk way from and the consequences are dire. Thought to have been killed [...]
