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“Be careful, don’t be noticed, they say that endlessly in this country.”
The first part of this line is an underlying message, if not the outright moral from any classic fairy tale… given those stories were designed to keep children in line.

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.

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 [...]

*The following is a transcript of a conversation between two guys who have just seen the Norwegian fantasy film Troll Hunter. It was obtained via subcutaneous audio implants that were surreptitiously injected into the guys’ necks via movie-studio-hired snipers as the guys were walking out of a theater.*

Paul Bettany must have liked playing a gun-toting archangel in last year’s Legion, because he reunites with that film’s director to again play a guy who kicks butt while serving God in Priest, a slick supernatural action flick that looks great but lacks personality.

Paul follows in the tradition of the great Galaxy Quest as a film that begins–and ends–at a sci-fi convention, offers its geekiest sci-fi nerds a chance to be part of a real sci-fi adventure, and even features a certain iconic sci-fi personality whose name would qualify as a spoiler. I certainly expect fans [...]