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
Drive Angry is Nicholas Cage’s what-the-hell movie… the kind of thing he does because he want to (or has to). It’s a good bad movie… which is rare for him since he’s usually in bad bad movies. Plus The Accountant … Continue reading
Hot Tube time Machine is a whole movie that missed opportunity to be really really funny. The rather (intentionally) stupid and silly movie posits what if you could travel in time back to the 80s by partying in some kind … Continue reading
City of Ember is about an underground city where the remnants of humanity live and have lived for hundreds of years – to the point that everyone has forgotten that there is an outside world. But the generator running the … Continue reading
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a sublimely weird movie that is going to have some people just scratching their head in bewilderment. I certainly uttered a “What the hell?” a few times when things got particularly daffy. The flick … Continue reading
Assault on Precinct 13 wasn’t that bad. All in all, the original 1970s version was better in terms of building the tension and payoff but this one had a lot better acting and a lot more starpower (that is, it … Continue reading
T3 is the difference between a great director and an OK director. A good script and a weak script. Great cinemicrography and ok cinematography. In other words, it’s ok. Its disappointing but not unexpectedly so. Lots of things explode a … Continue reading