“Winters Bone” is an independent film that has received a load of accolades in the past few months, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. It stars Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, a 17-year old girl who lives with and basically cares for her mentally ill mother and two younger siblings in [...]
Angelina Jolie stars in the latest action movie, “Salt”. This is the latest in a seemingly endless cycle of action films this year where government agents go on the run for a crime they supposedly didn’t commit, such as “Knight and Day”, “The A-Team”, “The Losers”, the upcoming “Red”, and now this. Now, the quality [...]
Allow me to begin this review by saying: “Predators”, the new Robert Rodriguez-produced reboot of the franchise, does not in any way live up to the standard set by the 1987 original. Then again, what can? “Predator” was one of the finest action films Hollywood has ever produced, a perfect blend of tension, action, and [...]
Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest directors of this generation. The man has made some of the true cinematic masterpieces of the last several years, “Memento” and “The Prestige”, not to mention his billion-grossing-juggernaut “The Dark Knight”. I can’t quite put into words what makes his films so compelling and so popular, but the [...]
M. Night Shyamalan has made a name for himself for coming up with small-scale, yet interesting thrillers, often with twist endings. Some are pretty awful (”The Happening” and “The Village”) yet some I feel are simply fantastic (Unbreakable” and “Signs”) and one, “The Sixth Sense”, has become a cultural juggernaut. (Overstatement? How many times have [...]
Twilight was not made for me. I know that. Twilight was not made with the thoughts or feelings of non-”Twihard” males in mind, and you know what? I’m totally fine with that. 95% of all large movie franchises are geared towards guys, so to see a franchise made with females in mind is actually something [...]
I can say without exaggeration that I have waited 11 years to see “Toy Story 3″. With “Toy Story” being the very first film I’d ever seen, “Toy Story 2″ being the first film I viewed in a theater, and the countless times I’ve watched each since then, it’s safe to say that [...]
The A-Team was a popular (at its peak, it attracted around 40 million viewers) television show in the 1980s that revolved around four men who were constantly on the run from the government for a crime they didn’t commit. Enter its contemporary re-imagining, named (get this) “The A-Team”. It stars Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto [...]
There are few modern directors with as keen an eye to staging action sequences or better yet, human drama, than Ridley Scott. The mans pedrigee encompasses such fantastic films as “Blade Runner”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Alien”, and “Kingdom of Heaven”. As these films prove, he is a master at telling a story with interesting, fleshed-out [...]
Two years ago, Robert Downey Jr. surprised us all. Turning a great performance in the first “Iron Man”, he turned a sub-par comic book hero into a vibrant, interesting movie character that ultimately, greatly boosted the quality of that film. Well, two years after that, “Iron Man 2″ is out, and I must say: It’s [...]