Review: “A Good Day to Die Hard”
In the twelve year span it took for the third and fourth entries in the "Die Hard" franchise to be released, movies changed. Action...
Review: “Beautiful Creatures”
With Valentine's Day occurring this week, it needs to be stated once more; romantic melodramas can be great. That obvious fact is often overlooked...
Review: “Safe Haven”
There was a great article a couple years back called "How to Write a Nicholas Sparks Movie." After a quick critique of the marketing...
Review: “Identity Thief”
In "The Avengers" a World War II man made into a superhero is found frozen in ice, a billionaire flies around in a metal...
Review: “Side Effects”
For the past few years, writer-director and indie-film icon Steven Soderbergh has voiced his intent to retire from filmmaking, and has so far failed...
Review: “Warm Bodies”
A zombie falls in love with a woman and said feelings might be reciprocal in the new film "Warm Bodies".Wait! Don't leave! "Warm Bodies"...
Review: “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters”
Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola makes the jump to Hollywood and follows in the footsteps of many foreign genre directors before him - delivering an...
Review: “Mama”
Graced with a simple but rich premise, "Mama" starts off at a brisk pace but eventually runs out of energy and staggers through a...
Review: “The Last Stand”
There is an extended sequence in The Last Stand that takes place in an expansive corn field with nothing but corn for as far...
Review: “Gangster Squad”
Cursed by bad-timing and a severe lack of originality, Ruben Fleischer's "Gangster Squad" is every bit as generic as its title indicates. It's certainly...
Review: “Jack Reacher”
An efficient mesh of a 90's John Grisham-esque thriller procedural with flashes of a 70's/80's vigilante movie, Chris McQuarrie's adaptation of Lee Child's "One...
Review: “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
A welcome albeit less magical return to Middle Earth, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" kicks off a likely nine-hour cinematic trilogy based on J.R.R....
Review: “Red Dawn”
The world has changed considerably from the 1980s culture that spawned the original violent cult classic "Red Dawn." The story followed a group...
Review: “Skyfall”
As much a refresh of the franchise as "Casino Royale" was, Daniel Craig's third time out as James Bond is his best so far....
Review: “Paranormal Activity 4”
Since it began, the "Paranormal Activity" franchise has followed a fairly predictable path - the first was one of those low-budget, better than average...
Review: “Taken 2”
Filmmaker Luc Besson has made a living over the past decade turning himself into the white and French answer to Tyler Perry. But...
Review: “Resident Evil: Retribution”
Not as good as the first or 'Extinction' but better than 'Apocalypse' and 'Afterlife', the fifth entry in the "Resident Evil" franchise begins with...
Review: “The Cold Light of Day”
This time last year came John Singleton's "Abduction". It was a film that attempted two things, the first being to establish a cost-efficient...
Review: “Lawless”
Combining moments of brutal and nasty violence with well-paced character-driven drama, John Hillcoat's latest effort tries to balance art house respectability with the visceral...
Review: “The Dark Knight Rises”
The most ambitious and seemingly consistent of Chris Nolan's Batman trilogy ultimately proves its least engaging. What started with a grounded but still comic-inspired...
Review: “The Amazing Spider-Man”
Despite much stronger casting and a more engaging modern tone, Sony's all-too-soon reboot of its popular "Spider-Man" franchise sadly fails to justify its existence....
Review: “Bel Ami”
An oddly empty take on Guy de Maupassant classic novel, stage directors turned filmmakers Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's version of "Bel Ami" is...
Review: “Prometheus”
Conceived as an "Alien" prequel but morphed into something more ambitious, Ridley Scott's long-awaited return to science fiction is equal parts wondrous, frustrating and...
Review: “Men in Black 3”
An improvement on the second film but not as fun or fresh as the first, the third "Men in Black" shows little sign of...
Review: “Battleship”
One of the unexpectedly great comedies of the 80's was a film based on a board game - "Clue". Combining a cast of...
Review: “Dark Shadows”
As major fans of the cult 1960's daytime soap on which it's based, filmmaker Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp attempt a fusion of...
Review: “The Avengers”
The biggest surprise of Marvel's long-awaited "The Avengers" project isn't that it works spectacularly well, rather it's that it works at all. It...
Review: “Goon”
On the surface, "Goon" is an assembly-line underdog sports movie. And yes the film hits a handful of familiar story beats along the...
Review: “Jeff Who Lives At Home”
It's a startling moment when "Jeff Who Lives at Home" opens with actor Jason Segel dictating to a tape recorder the meaning of M....
Review: “Seeking Justice”
The strangest thing about Nicolas Cage's "Seeking Justice" is how painfully old-fashioned it feels. It is a B-movie through-and-through, yet it resembles the...