Now Playing: Trekkin’ the Night Away
I must admit that when I walked into the crowded theater to watch J.J. Abrams’ second journey into the ‘Star Trek’ universe, I was a bit apprehensive. The studio didn’t hold any press screenings before...
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Rumors of a new ‘Poltergeist‘ project have been circulating for a while now. It appears that this undertaking has gained some steam recently and has brought some heavy hitters on board. Reportedly, it...
View ArticleNow Playing: So ‘Over’ It
I’m not quite sure why ‘The Hangover Part III’ was called ‘The Hangover Part III’. The first two films in this series actually dealt with four friends who had epic hangovers and crazy exploits and...
View ArticleNow Playing: Furiouser and Furiouser…
With more than $1.5 billion in previous sales, Universal rolls out a sixth entry to one of its biggest film franchises this week. Despite awful dialogue and numerous over-the-top, zany action sequences...
View ArticleNow Playing: Unhappily Ever ‘After’
‘After Earth’ has a bunch of good things going for it. Will Smith is the biggest box office draw in the business right now, and his son Jaden has proven to have decent acting chops. This film’s...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘See’ Worthy
Mixing parts of ‘The Illusionist’, ‘The Prestige’ and a healthy dose of ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, director Louis Leterrier’s ‘Now You See Me’ is a heist movie involving four magicians. The illusions in the...
View ArticleNow Playing: About 417,000,000 Results (0.22 Seconds)
Much like ‘Wedding Crashers’, the pairing of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in ‘The Internship’ seems to have potential for a lot of gut-busting laughs. Unfortunately, just like last time these two got...
View ArticleNow Playing: Joss Whedon Gets His Bard On
Joss Whedon has taken off his brown coat and hung up his superhero costume for the time being to give us a laugh-out-loud and fresh telling of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. With an amazing...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘This Is’ Hilarious
Car crashes, explosions, decapitations, exorcisms, the apocalypse and tons of dick jokes make up Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen’s ‘This Is the End’ – and it’s the most fun I’ve had at the movies in ten...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘Man’ Up
Did we need another Superman origin story to grace our theaters just seven years after Bryan Singer’s ‘Superman Returns’? While that particular film wasn’t so much a reboot as a sequel to the older...
View ArticleNow Playing: It’s ‘Z’ End of the World As We Know It
A well-structured story was left on the backburner of Hollywood’s latest apocalyptic zombie epic, ‘World War Z’. Instead, we have a $200 million dollar action movie that delivers a few suspenseful...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘The Heat’ Is On
Paul Feig is on a roll these days. From his time spent on the TV series ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and ‘Undeclared’, to his big box office smash ‘Bridesmaids‘, the director hasn’t missed a step with this new...
View ArticleNow Playing: Who Was That Masked Man?
Director Gore Verbinski borrows heavily from his animated Western ‘Rango’ and some other choice films for his latest mega-budget action adventure, ‘The Lone Ranger’. In what seems to be a project...
View ArticleNow Playing: Likeable ‘Me’
In terms of box office, it may be difficult for ‘Despicable Me 2′ to beat its predecessor, which made over $543 million just three years ago. Nevertheless, the directors and writers are back again with...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘Way’ Good
Hot off their Oscar win for ‘The Descendants‘, screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon hop into the director’s chair for the first time with the incredible summer flick ‘The Way, Way Back’. The comedy duo...
View ArticleNow Playing: Out on a ‘Rim’
Robots, monsters and Ron Perlman. Oh my. Director Guillermo del Toro gives us the movie that we’ve wanted to see since we were five-years-old. In an action-packed and brilliant visual effects...
View ArticleNow Playing: Dead in Black
I’ve spoken with many people about their thoughts on seeing ‘R.I.P.D.’ this weekend, and 9 out of 10 of them have said that the movie looks terrible. In addition, I’ve heard rumors that a lot of studio...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘Conjuring’ Up Some Scares
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve had a really great and pure horror film, capable of producing genuine scares. ‘The Conjuring’ may just re-vitalize the genre this summer. Filmmaker James Wan...
View ArticleNow Playing: ‘God’ Awful
‘Drive‘, the first collaboration between director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling, was one of my favorite films of 2011. It was original, fresh, had a killer soundtrack and a colorful cast...
View ArticleNow Playing: Get Your Claws Up
This second installment in a supposed Wolverine trilogy is certainly a step in the right direction. Despite ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine‘ being a terrible mess of a film on all levels, it managed to...
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