Saw the new Pixar flick Brave about the Scottish princess with all the red curls… everything in the trailers is wonderful and fun and rates really high on the Pixar-scale. The actual plot, which happily isn’t ruined by the trailers, … Continue reading
Avengers Assembled… and it’s good. Wish I was doing backflips (wish I COULD do backflips… heh) but it worked and looked fantastic and was fairly fun and funny. It ain’t no Dark Knight but it’s better than, say, Thor and … Continue reading
Saw Cabin in the Woods tonight – the movie about the college students who go off into the woods for a good time weekend to a mysterious CABIN IN THE WOODS (only to run into trouble)… and if you’ve seen … Continue reading
The movie John Carter has a boring, non-descriptive “could be anything” title is based on a series of pulp novels from the 1910s by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It looks like a dozen other big budget movies so the uninitiated might … Continue reading
So The Artist is the front-runner for Best Picture this year. Saw it. Can’t say I agree in the least. It’s a story any movie goer familiar with the classics has seen before (can the silent film actor adjust to … Continue reading
Saw Red Tails today – the WW2 war movie about the Tuskegee Airmen (the black pilots). People who are cynics, who can’t handle war movie cliches, who hate rah-rah patriotism, and/or who just hate hate hate George Lucas will hate … Continue reading
Also saw the new Steven Soderberg action flick Haywire – starring the female MMA fighter (and American Gladiator, apparently) star Gena Carano. It’s very Bourne-like in that the fight sequences are very real/believable (partially because their star knows her way … Continue reading
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… based on a long slog of a book I gave up on a third of the way through is a movie that’s too long for its story. It’s certainly watchable (when it’s not being graphically … Continue reading
We Bought a Zoo… they did. It was a cute movie. Charming and sweet. Matt Damon does his usual solid work. I’m not sure there’s much to say about this flick other than it’s well worth seeing. Score: 82
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – best of the series and one of the best action movies of the year. Solid, solid movie that knows how to be a good action movie and to put an action scene together. Great set … Continue reading