The new Fantastic 4 is a really, really bad film. Dour, gloomy, joyless, bleak, and really really sluggish and dull. It’s 1hr 45min long but feels much longer. A superhero flick doesn’t have to be bright and fun to be … Continue reading
April Apocalypse is an attempt to make a high school teen romantic zombie comedy that fails. First off, every actor is clearly 10 years too old for their parts, the writing is just not good, and there’s no surprises, no … Continue reading
I skipped it for a few weeks, but finally got to see The Nut Job, the shockingly unfunny CG cartoon starring various small rodents who want to rob a nut store (which is being used as a front for generic … Continue reading
Saw the new animated movie Walking with Dinosaurs – based, initially, on the faux-documentary series from a fear years ago that played, I think, on Discovery Channel. And it’s terrible. Just awful. It looks fantastic and it has interesting moments … Continue reading
Dario Argento, famed (I suppose) Italian horror director went and made a new Dracula movie… it more-or-less kinda-sorta follows the plot of the book and stars no one in particular except a very bored Rutger Hauer as Van Helsing and … Continue reading
Saw Silent Hill: Revelations 3D… which was not silent, didn’t have any noticeable hills, had no revelations and wasn’t in 3D (because I saw the single 2D screening). The first movie was a fairly decent, moody gory little movie with … Continue reading
Saw the film Skyline which, surprisingly, isn’t a movie about chili (Cincinnati-style chili joke – har har)… it’s a rather pedestrian alien invasion flick that thinks its A LOT better than it is. Definitely a flick done on a budget … Continue reading
Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life is pretty much just a bad movie. It isn’t without a squeak of merit but you have to go digging (hah!) to find it. It seems to be confused and thinks its something of a … Continue reading