Season of the Witch/Green Hornet: 2011 Begins With a Thud
With Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Taken doing well two years ago, and The Book of Eli raking in the dough last year, January has become a home where genre flicks hope they can sneak in amongst the Oscar...
View ArticleX-Men: First Class: Fassbender’s Magnetism Makes This Film Attractive
I grew up on X-Men. I read the comic books, I collected the action figures, I watched the TV show. I collected the Fleer Ultra X-Men trading cards. So needless to say, every time an X-Men movie comes...
View ArticleCaptain America: The First Avenger Might Be The Best
They got it right. Anyone who saw Joe Johnston’s work in The Rocketeer knew he would deliver the goods here, and boy, does he. Captain America is an earnest old-school charmer of an action hero flick,...
View ArticleMini-Reviews: Chronicle, Red Tails, Wanderlust
In an attempt to give readers my feelings on films as I plug away on a number of writing assignments, I’ll provide mini-reviews to give my succinct opinion on films and to give me time to finish my...
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises: The Best Of The Bunch… Yet I’m Left In The Dark
There’s nothing more frustrating than wanting to fully give yourself over to a franchise and figure out why everyone else loves it more than you do, and repeatedly you find yourself unable to fall in...
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