Mr. Tim Burton has been pissing me off for years now. It’s not the hair. Or the sad fact that he left the (assumingly) lovely Helena. My anger jumped up to seeth level at the mention of his stupid, dumb…
As I sat watching this week’s remake of The Magnificent Seven one thing was glaringly apparent: Antoine Fuqua really wanted to make an old school western. The Training Day director saturates his retelling with all of the clichés and tropes…
This week’s mandated re-boot is an epic of microscopic proportions. A retelling of the biblical story Ben Hur, a Jewish prince living in ancient Jerusalem whose story shares some parallels with some carpenter dude named Jesus. Full disclosure: I am…
The Purge 3 is fine. Does its job. Entertains a little. Escapism. It is merely this week’s sequel. And I’m tired of it. All we get are retreads, reboots, sequels and “universe expansions” . Every week is writing piece explaining…
Oh…. That trailer. If you were to judge The Shallows solely on what is presented in THE SHALLOWS – Official Trailer #2 you could assume the film may just be an instant classic. A Shark-as-Monster movie to possibly mention in…
Oh, Pixar. How do you disappoint me? Let me count the ways. Actually, there’s only one: The money grab. When you make movies like Monsters University and Cars 2 it is obvious that little effort was put in and you…
This week’s sequel is the follow up to one of the best horror films of the decade. The Conjuring was a highly effective fright film that captured the sensibility of 70’s horror. No real gore. No false jump scares as…
My grand-mammy used to always say “Opinions are like assholes; everyone else’s stinks but mine”. She was a mean lady. Yet those words ring in my head frequently as I write these reviews and that is true even more so…
Please note: The following review was compost on my iPhone using the voice-to-text feature. Any type-os have not been removed as I have decided to put about as much a fort into this review as the makers of Ex Mend:…
Believe the hype: The Nice Guys is one of the best movies of the year. In fact, this is the funniest movie I have seen since What We Do in the Shadows. Hilarious and irreverent, these nice guys finish first!…