The new movie Vampire Academy is a desperately hip attempt at cross-breeding Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight (though it pretends it’s better than Twilight by attacking it directly). The dialog is trying hard to be clever, … Continue reading
Buddy Cop movie Ride Along starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube is a fairly mediocre comedy… but not a total disaster. Your tolerance for this flick is probably going to be based on how funny you find the Ruby Rhod … Continue reading
When Kevin Sorbo and Hercules: The Legendary Journey is a more accurate representation of the Hercules myth than the new The Legend of Hercules movie, then you know something has gone horribly wrong. Kevin Lutz (who?) stars as “Hercules”… a … Continue reading
Saw Last Vegas – the new comedy starring Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline, and Mary Steenburgen (with Red Foo and 50 Cent in random cameos). Four old friends go to Vegas for one of their weddings and … Continue reading
So I watched with detached disinterest the animated flick Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on DVD only to realize suddenly while watching that the movie was kind of funny and absurdist. And then I realized I kind of liked … Continue reading
So I went to see the martial arts bio-flick The Grandmaster… a chinese film (with a wide theatrical release) about someone (or something) named Ip Man… I had no idea it was about him… or who he was (though there … Continue reading
Saw Getaway, the new Ethan Hawke / Selena Gomez movie… 90 minutes of car crashes with a random, flimsy plot to hang Car Crash the Movie on. Hawke drives an armored Shelby Cobra (an excuse for the lack of damage … Continue reading
Saw the movie Red 2 so you don’t have to! It’s the sequel to Red… did you see that? Probably not. Old people can be spies and action heroes too… only half as good as Space Cowboys which was about … Continue reading
So… yeah… The Lone Ranger movie is pretty bad. Long, dull, and trying so very hard to be funny with anachronistic humor that comes of as a desperate attempt at saying “I can be funny and wacky too!” To its … Continue reading
Saw the horror flick The Purge and see it if you want some heavy-handed messages inexpertly tacked onto an interesting-but-poorly-executed premise full of dull and dreary … scares? I guess. Premise is that in 2022, the economy is booming, unemployment … Continue reading