Suggestion Box (May 3 – 9)

Movies: I Spit on Your Grave Trailer – Okay, I will admit that I am mostly just a fan of the title for this movie, but as a remake to a horror film I don’t know how excited to really get about this. Let’s face it; they all don’t turn out too well. Plus […]

Review: Iron Man 2

Summer is here, as is our first sequel of the summer in Iron Man 2 and the results are an entertaining and solid follow up to the widely lauded original, but I can’t quite put my finger on how it stacks up to its predecessor. The conundrum I have with the film is the tone […]

Review: City Island

City Island fills its world with a couple of tad too clichéd characters and quite the contrived plot but a great turn by Andy Garcia and plenty of humor that works make it an entering family drama. The Rizzo’s are a traditional Brooklyn family, loud, fighting, and everyone is a tad dysfunctional. Whether they are […]

Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street isn’t particularly scary or tense, definitely not original, and almost completely absent of character depth and plot; but it looks pretty good, doesn’t dilly dally , and gets a fun (outside a couple of eye rolling one liners) turn by Jackie Earl Haley as Krueger. The film […]

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

This Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an affective crime thriller that works well enough as a film but has some question marks as an adaptation. Mikael Blomkvist is a minor celebrity reporter who’s image and magazine, Millennium, is dragged through the mud when he is sued and convicted of libel […]

Now Playing Review – Kick-Ass

If I have learned anything from all the years of loving superheroes, I know this: it is pretty stupid to even consider emulating your favorite caped crusader. Well, good thing there are certain individuals who ignore their brain’s hazard signs, because it sure makes for a fun and highly entertaining movie. In Kick-Ass (sorry mom), […]

Now Playing Review – Date Night

If Date Night were a blind date between you and another person (as opposed to what, I don’t know) then I would say that the date is going pretty well. Sure there are times when some traits are revealed that you aren’t really sure if you want to stick around for, and sometimes they make […]

Review: The Losers

The Losers is a fun, funny, throwback action film that never lets up and features great work by the solid ensemble cast that is obviously having a blast and brings us in on all the fun. The Losers is a band of CIA operatives that get hung out to dry on a black op gone […]

Review: Kick-Ass

Kick-Ass is a lot of fun and does a nice job at poking fun at the comic book conventions but I can’t help but wonder if this film would have been better off being called Hit Girl. Kick-Ass is a wannabe super-hero that doesn’t really have any super powers; he is more of a really […]

Review: Death at a Funeral

This new version of Death at a Funeral changes little from its British forbearer while still delivering the big laughs and hitting all the big notes it just drags a bit at times and rarely finds a consistent stride. The premise is simple, a family comes together for the main character’s father’s funeral and many […]