There is zero doubt that Interstellar is a beautiful movie. See it in IMAX and you will be transported through wormholes and the vast space beyond the Great Nothing. However if you are not well versed in quantum mechanics or…
While they may not be as famous as The Avengers, the latest animated tale from Disney does indeed qualify as another superhero adaptation. Based on the Marvel Comics characters, Big Hero 6 takes a young group of misfits and fashions…
This film opens Friday in San Diego at Landmark La Jolla Village. For many, it can be difficult to imagine how one might respond in the face of great danger. In Hollywood, such a situation gives filmmakers the opportunity the…
If you’re looking for something truly bizarre this week at the movies, it’s hard to top Horns. It’s a film that attempts to combine demons, angels, Biblical allusions, teen romance/angst alongside doses of dark satire and bloody violence. As one…
Loss-of-memory films can play host to intriguing ideas. When one loses all sense of self, how do they remember who and what they were, or even if they’re still the same person they were the day before? And how can…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a unique experience. Let’s use that sentence as the first example to support the statement. The singularity of the film is like a crisp slap in the face (in…
It can’t be easy adapting a board game into a theatrical movie. Especially when the games themselves don’t exactly lend themselves to the format. Regardless, Hasbro (the makers of Jenga and Pictionary among many others) has developed one that does…
For many moviegoers, Keanu Reeves has fallen off of the radar a bit over the past decade. He’s still been working, but mostly in independent productions. In fact, his last studio film (the much delayed and long-shelved 47 Ronin) was…
Jason Reitman’s new film, Men, Women & Children, is an all-encompassing bummer. Every component warrants a popping of a Prozac, making this the most disappointing film I’ve seen all year. It starts out so very promising as it hits on…
Children’s books often have a simple moral, and the slick-looking Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is no exception. It also has an interesting concept. Unfortunately, the message seems muddled and at times contradictory to the…