The release of “Tower Heist” could not have had timed better. As protesters take their tents to the streets to Occupy Wall Street and animosity grows each day towards the privileged One-Percenters, here is a movie about getting back from…
Elizabeth Olsen is fantastic in her film debut “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and really that alone is the pull that is intriguing the masses. However, that is also the only bright spot in this otherwise gratuitously draining movie. It’s not…
“In Time” shows a future were currency is measured by time not money. That is the premise for this poorly-titled film that invites the constant “stolen seconds” pun that runs throughout the movie. It’s an interesting concept and it shows…
There was a time early in his career when Hunter S. Thompson was not yet familiar with the smell of bastards. “The Rum Diary” presents the period before the drugs began to take hold. This booze soaked story, based on…
What if William Shakespeare didn’t write Romeo and Juliet? What if he was nothing more than an arrogant actor who hung out with the likes of writers Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson, and took credit for every sonnet and…
This is releasing January 6th next year but the trailer is out just in time for Halloween!!! What you think? Scary? Or another ripoff of “The Exorcist”?
I have an unbelievably fond memory of the first time I saw “Footloose”. I gazed upon a giant outdoor screen at the local drive-in mesmerized by the cutting loose of agile feet. It was a hot summer night and my…
“The Thing (2011)” is as cold and lifeless as the frozen, Antarctic tundra in which it takes place. This is a prequel/remake-of-a-remake that bears none of the horror and tension of the original and shines as an example of pointless…
The title suggests deception and intrigue at Shakespearian proportions. As you probably know (and I like to think of those who take the time to read my reviews as being well read and- if that is a stretch- I think,…
The Robots-in-the-Ring Actioner “Real Steel” borrows so liberally from plot elements found in Sylvester Stallone’s filmography, the Great Mumbly One should at least be given a “Story By” credit on IMDB. So many elements are pilfered, in fact, that the…