Category Movie Reviews

Tangled is Anything but a Mess

Tangled The folks over at Disney Animation know how to make fairy tales proper and, considering history, they should. Beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, their very first animated feature made back in 1937, to last year’s Princess…

127 Hours Review

  127 Hours While watching the incredible true events unfold in director Danny Boyle’s new film, 127 Hours, it’s near impossible not to place yourself in such a horrifying situation. Imagine being trapped in the middle of nowhere without any…

Megamind: Mega-Fun

Megamind What Will Ferrell does better than most anyone else is to step into a character and commit fully to it. This ability to completely wrap himself up in the nuances of the often times off-kilter people he is portraying…

Due Date plays like Deja Vu

Due Date Let us start with the positive. Due Date has an amazing trailer. It features a couple minutes of footage that perfectly captures the essence of the film. It clearly conveys the story; Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis…

‘re Here

Hereafter Hereafter starts off with one helluva opening scene. We are taken to Some-Such resort town located in a non-descript Latin country that is situated near the sea. A beautiful French woman named Marie (Cecile De France) leaves her lover…

Watching the skies and Waiting for “Superman”

The American Public School System is broken. This is according to documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim who has his astonishing new film, Waiting for “Superman,” to offer as glaring evidence. The film points to the many core reasons the system is…

Freakonomics Review

Maverick economist Steven Levitt presents many of his controversial thoughts and theories in the new documentary Freakonomics; none in which deal with the dramatic growth of the over-the-counter derivatives markets or other such economic issues that are incomprehensible to the…