57 Seconds is a wholly unremarkable but fairly watchable sci-fi time loop thriller. It stars Josh Hutcherson (with an assist from Morgan Freeman who wanders in and out of the movie) as a blogger on the tail of a crooked … Continue reading
See You on Venus is ultimately a very familiar ticking clock romance between two impossibly pretty actors that you’ve seen before and can probably outthink in a microsecond. It doesn’t help that the moon-brained girl fantasizes about Venus as this … Continue reading
Curse this fuzzy little movie, I swore to myself I wouldn’t fall for its manipulative charms. I didn’t know what form they would take, but after Paddington and The Boy, The Horse, The Fox, and the Mole exhibited a certain … Continue reading
Genie is a bit of a nothing movie but it’s also a bit funny and a bit heartwarming. I probably won’t remember much about it in a few days but its an ok time-waster of a Christmas flick. It stars … Continue reading
Next Goal Wins is a generic sports underdog movie that has enough script issues that I struggle to get the movie to a decent review. But it pulls off a late game miracle… which is to say it delivers the … Continue reading
I’m thrilled I didn’t have the slightest clue what this movie was going in. I just knew it had buzz. When it begins at Oxford with a golden boy and an average guy, I wondered if it was going to … Continue reading
The Naughty Nine is a case of taking a heist movie and ’80s-ifying it into a kids flick. I could see it being made in the era of The Goonies or Gremlins… only it would have been made better back … Continue reading
The great irony of this “talking lizard helps grade school students with life” film is that it’d probably be better without the talking lizard. If it were just about the kids, it’d still be a funny, uplifting, and still kinda … Continue reading
Dashing Through the Snow is yet another Christmas movie with a generic, meaningless, grab-bag of a title. It’s not the most original plot either but there had to be something better they could have come up with… but, then again, … Continue reading
Wish so wants to be the culmination of Disney’s 100th anniversary… it trades on the wish upon a star theme and references a number of classic and newer films. Its end credits has images from every Disney animated film, including … Continue reading