What would you do if you could go back in time? If you weren’t the social contributor of parties and free beer, otherwise referred to as the nerd, you’d probably completely avoid your youthful years. In Hot Tub Time Machine, John Cusack plays Adam. He is your typical John Cusack character. He’s got a knack [...]
Read More blu-ray, comedy, Craig Robinson, DVD, Hot Tub Time Machine, Jeremy, John Cusak, R, Rob Corddry, Sci-FiIf Blade and Gattaca had a baby, it would be Daybreakers. Set in a near future where most of the population are vampires with only a handful of humans to feed off, similar to the ratio of monkeys to humans in Planet of the Apes. A scientist at a giant corporation who operates “blood farms” [...]
Read More action, blu-ray, Daybreakers, drama, DVD, Ethan Hawke, horror, R, Sci-Fi, thriller, Willem DafoeIt’s a peculiar thing to review a movie that has grossed enough money to launch the space shuttle twice or to build a complete Virginia-class nuclear fast attack submarine. Is there actually a point in doing so? If I say it’s overrated will that stop anyone from renting it? If I say it’s underrated will [...]
Read More action, adventure, Avatar, blu-ray, DVD, Fantasy, James Cameron, PG-13, Sam Worthington, Sci-Fi, willI’m going to level with you. This alien abduction thriller starring Milla Jovovich purports to be based on real reports, but it’s really just Fire in the Sky meets The Blair Witch Project, a remarkably convincing but completely fictional tale that effectively unnerved me more often than not.
Read More David, DVD, Elias Koteas, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Milla Jovovich, Mystery, Olatunde Osunsanmi, PG-13, Sci-Fi, The Fourth Kind, thriller, Will PattonI would never accuse disaster master Roland Emmerich of possessing nuance, or even style, for that matter, but he who gave us Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow sure knows how to put on a show. I mean, in 2012, his latest end-of-the-world extravaganza, he destroys the White House with nothing less than an [...]
Read More 2012, action, adventure, Amanda Peet, blu-ray, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, David, drama, DVD, John Cusack, Oliver Platt, PG-13, Roland Emmerich, Sci-Fi, Thandie Newton, thriller, Woody HarrelsonI never much cared for director Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko, with its trippy time travel and cryptic-creepy rabbit, and liked his nonsensical Southland Tales even less. His seeming need for his films to be illogical eventually plagues The Box, too, turning what starts out as an intriguing and easy-to-grasp sci-fi parable into yet another mind-bending [...]
Read More blu-ray, Cameron Dia, David, drama, DVD, Frank Langella, horror, James Marsden, Mystery, PG-13, Richard Kelly, Richard Matheson, Sci-Fi, The Box, thrillerI was a bit apprehensive before watching The Time Traveler’s Wife. Would it err more on the side of thoughtful “what-if” time-travel movie (yes!), or mushy, obnoxious romance (boo!). Well, as it turns out, it lands somewhere in the middle, but I’d call it a happy medium. Aussie Eric Bana (Munich, Star Trek) does a [...]
Read More Alex, Audrey Niffenegger, drama, DVD, Eric Bana, PG-13, Rachel McAdams, romance, Sci-Fi, The Time Traveler's WifeSurrogates is a super slick serving of sci-fi nonsense starring Bruce Willis and directed by Jonathan Mostow that tries to sell us on the idea that there ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, baby, when it comes to humanity yet ends up being about as emotionally warm as an iceberg.
Read More action, blu-ray, Brett Weldele, Bruce Willis, David, DVD, Jack Noseworthy, James Cromwell, Jonathan Mostow, PG-13, Robert Venditti, Rosamund Pike, Sci-Fi, Surrogates, thriller, Ving RhamesThe exotic-sounding title of this seriously second-rate spaceship flick starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster refers to a fictional but violent psychological condition that sets in after too much time in suspended animation. I experienced some violent feelings of my own as the end credits rolled–and had a few choice words–having plunked down $10 to [...]
Read More Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Christian Alvart, David, Dennis Quaid, DVD, horror, Pandorum, R, Sci-Fi, thriller, Travis MilloyGamer, directed by “visionary” Crank team Neveldine/Taylor, stars Gerard Butler as Kable, a convicted felon “persuaded” to join “Slayers.” “Slayers” is an online multi-player “game” where real people, like Kable, are “controlled” by children, or sweaty fat men in windowless rooms, via Al Gore’s mysterious “internet.” The “slayers” face off in combat using automatic weapons. Things [...]
Read More action, DVD, Gamer, Gerard Butler, Michael Hall, Neveldine, Noah, R, Sci-Fi, Taylor, thriller