Film Reviews
Review: MAMA MIA!
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has spent her life growing up on a small Greek island with her single mother Donna (Meryl Streep). Never knowing who her father is, she gets it into her head to snoop [click for more]
Film Reviews
Film Reviews
Review: THE DARK KNIGHT
In 1989, director Tim Burton’s Batman finished what Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie started a decade earlier- moving the superhero movie out of the domain of juvenilia and towards more sophisticated levels of storytelling through [click for more]
Comics And Film
Review: HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Hellboy is not your average superhero. Unlike Batman or Iron Man, he isn’t a millionaire playboy in his off-hours, relaxing in a palatial mansion. Hellboy is more of a blue collar guy. A member of [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: HANCOCK
Hancock is a disappointment. A film that starts off with the promise of being a darker, edgier examination of the superhero trope, only to see that promise cavalierly thrown away, Hancock is nothing more than [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: GET SMART
When translating a property from one medium to another care is hopefully taken to preserve the spirit of the original while making necessary tweaks to better suit it to the new venue it will be [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: THE HAPPENING
When someone writes the book When Bad Movies Happen To Good Screenplays, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening certainly deserves its own chapter. An eco-thriller with a great premise that promises much but delivers nothing [click for more]
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Review: THE INCREDIBLE HULK
It’s hard to discuss director Louis Leterrier’s comic book adaptation The Incredible Hulk without mentioning the character’s two previous live action iterations- the 1978 to 1982 television series which starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno [click for more]
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Review: BAGHEAD
Baghead opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend and expands to other cities later this month. Here is our review from when it played at the Philadelphia Film Festival this past spring. The [click for more]
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Review: YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN
First things first. I am not a big fan of most of Adam Sandler’s films. While I won’t deny that there is an audience for his comedies, I have never found much humor in the [click for more]
Film Reviews
Review: MONGOL
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film this past year, Mongol opens in New York and Los Angeles today and will slowly roll out to other cities in the coming weeks. Here [click for more]