Tobey Maguire is known to most people as Spider-Man in the eponynomous trilogy, but in ‘Brothers’ he gives a fantastic performance, one worthy of an Oscar nomination. He plays a U.S. marine, Sam Camill, who is deployed into Afghanistan, leaving behind his wife Grace, daughters, and ex-con brother, Tommy. Sam’s helicopter crashes and is presumed [...]
The popularity of the ‘Twilight’ franchise isn’t particularly surprising. After all, week after week new action movies pile into movie theaters, and ‘Twilight’ just so happens to be an old-fashioned romance with good-looking characters (Edward and Bella for those of you that don’t know). It features every girl’s dream man. Simply put, it fulfills peoples’ [...]
I walked out of ‘2012′ confused, bored, and practically numbed to the mindless destruction. Some end-of-the-world movies blow up a skyscraper and can call itself an epic. ‘2012′ transforms Yellowstone into a volcano, demolishes Los Angeles within 10 minutes and crushes the Vatican, all in the first half of the film. ‘2012′ is three hours [...]
Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, and Jason Bateman star in ‘Couples Retreat’, a film that “teaches us” that if your marriage is headed for trouble, go to a beautiful resort and argue alot. Then you’ll magically realize, as if you were in a movie, that you love each other! ‘Couples Retreat’ obviously doesn’t have much of [...]
Zombie movies rock.
Starting a review with an immature statement like that may just be because of my young age, or because of how much fun ‘Zombieland’ is. Consider how many memorable moments they pack into 75 minutes. ‘Zombieland’ is a lot of fun, just think of it as a buddy comedy with two guys [...]
Horror movies have died. With remakes of sub-par 1980’s slasher movies cranked out seemingly every week, each stupider and less frightening as they go on. For the most part, to go to a horror film today is a cruel and unnecessary punishment. ‘Paranormal Activity’, however, is not from the Hollywood system. It wasn’t commissioned by [...]
‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ is perhaps the anti-thesis to ‘Where the Wild Things Are’: it plays it safe, doesn’t expand on any artistic boundary, and just doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Yes, it has the same amount of half-hearted giggles as just about any recent family film, yes it has the [...]
Childrens movies come and go every week, each more and more alike, each more and more seemingly cranked out for the sole purpose of money. ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ is perhaps the most unique, beautiful, and easily one of the best children’s films I’ve ever seen. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of it is [...]
‘Toy Story 1 & 2: 3-D Double Feature’ brings two of the best childrens movies ever made into theaters together, but as the title states, updates them by adding 3-D. Simply put, this one of the best experiences you’ll have in a movie theater this year. I personally find it somewhat incredible that they could [...]
Tyler Perry has built a small enterprise out of making morality dramas geared towards African-American audiences, and most of them are actually pretty good, given how corny ‘message movies’ can be. In his latest film, ‘I Can Do Bad All By Myself’, he sticks to his general formula: 1. Wounded/selfish/troubled character(s) meet each other, 2. [...]