The Dark Knight Rises is an extremely well made movie that goes on (and on and on) for about 45 minutes longer than is necessary for its preachy but thematically muddled parable of the 99% and then ends with what … Continue reading
Believe it or not, there’s a movie out at the theaters right now called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter… and it’s very serious (not tongue-in-cheek) and it’s marginally good. Produced by Tim Burton, directed by Timur Bekmenatov (that’s easy for me … 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
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
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
So how is is that a kids CGI movie starring a little-known (in the US) character and his dog is somehow less silly and more in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark than the whole of Kingdom of … Continue reading
Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a surprisingly good movie… exciting, a little thoughtful, and amazing to look at (thems some smart ape thinkins). People actually gasped and applauded in the theater so I know they were all … Continue reading
Transformers 3 is a good movie marred by the fact it’s a bad movie. That’s the best thing I’ve ever said about a (live action) Transformers movie. For the first time in this series, I actually felt an emotion other … Continue reading
Loved it… neat action flick about a child assassin (who wouldn’t like that?!). Saroise Ronin plays the lead and she’s very solid. Great action scenes that are proof against all the idiot hyper-cut action flicks out there… and it’s also … Continue reading