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The funny thing about writing movie reviews for DVD releases is that I’ve often read multiple other critics’ take on the film I’m reviewing, usually months before I start composing my own thoughts. I’m not troubled by the possibility of being influenced by them opinion-wise, but sometimes I do [...]

When I saw Captain America: The First Avenger on opening day last July in a packed theater, forced to sit in the very front row, slouching down in my seat so as to not permanently damage my neck while looking up at the screen, I thought it was very good, but [...]

Imagine for a moment that, back in 2002, when Steven Spielberg was tweaking E.T., instead of changing all the guns into walkie-talkies, he added more guns. And maybe more aliens, too, making them considerably less friendly (and presumably rather less intelligent). And set everything at night in an already-sinister London housing block? [...]

Neither as mediocre or overlong as the original film, nor as convoluted and overblown as the second and third installments, On Stranger Tides instead rights the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise by finally being as light, funny and wholly entertaining as star Johnny Depp still is while playing Captain Jack Sparrow.

There was a time when people thought Kevin Smith was going to change the face of movies as we know them. He didn’t, and as evidenced by his new film Red State, he never will.

There’s nothing about Fast Five that’s going to change your mind about action movies. If you’re not a fan, don’t approach this box, as the sheer volume of non-stop action will probably upset you just by standing near it.
If you are an action fan however, rent this.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third entry in director Michael Bay’s trio of colossal, rock ‘em-sock ‘em-blast ‘em action epics about giant shape-changing robots, is much like its predecessors: long, loud and ludicrous. Critics faintly praised it as being a slightly better experience than the first two flicks, but honestly, [...]

Thor is a big movie, not just in that it cost $150 million to make, but because it’s very theatrical. The dialogue, setting, acting and plot all seem on the level of a Shakespearean drama. So it’s fitting, and fortunate, that it was directed by Kenneth Branagh, who, with a [...]

After a couple of somewhat inferior entries, the franchise about super-powered mutants springs back to entertaining life with X-Men: First Class, the Matthew Vaughn-directed prequel that proves a first-class effort despite the absence of series star Hugh Jackman.
Where Wolverine showed us the origins of Jackman’s mutton-chopped hero, this one details how good-guy telepath Charles Xavier [...]

People everywhere told me I was going to like Hanna. Warning sign number one. Then I saw it was rated PG-13. Warning sign number two. At this point, going in, I had a sort of nervous anticipation to either love or hate this movie.
Luckily, it was awesome.