Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe reteam yet again for a new spin on the Robin Hood, a grounded origin story, and while I enjoyed much of the film there is a lot of things you catch yourself going; huh?. We all know the story of Robin Hood, right? Well Scott and Crowe take us on […]
Read more "Review: Robin Hood (2010)"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), […]
Read more "Now Playing 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 […]
Read more "Review: Kick-Ass"The Young Victoria continues the trend of successful royalty based period films that feel fresh and cotemporary and historically intact all the same and it is all grounded by a great turn by Emily Blunt as the title character. The film opens as a political battle of posturing and manipulation surrounds the British thrown as […]
Read more "Review: The Young Victoria"Guy Ritchie teams up with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law to reboot the classic tale and the end result is an entertaining and well acted effort that fails to ever really be anything but pretty good; not that there is anything wrong with that. Instead of going straight into traditional origins and reboot territory, […]
Read more "Review: Sherlock Holmes"Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of the beloved Sherlock Holmes brings about an exciting perspective on what I assumed was only a droll, meticulous British detective. Then again, all I know of the character is what I can remember from watching PBS’s Wishbone as a child. Following the capture of the black magic practitioner to blame for […]
Read more "Now Playing Review – Sherlock Holmes"This sci-fi action flick staring Vin Diesel is a not really good, but not really bad film that has a couple interesting ideas that just didn’t gel together and feels under explained and missing scenes from time to time. Toorop (Vin Diesel) is a mercenary living somewhere in future central Asia in a bombed out […]
Read more "Reveiw: Babylon A.D."Guy Ritchie’s return to form in RocknRolla is a crazy, fun, and always cool look at crime in London, and while it might seem like re-tread territory to some, it is so damn entertaining that one should ask, why should we care? To begin to explain this convoluted and twisting plot from the get go […]
Read more "Review: RocknRolla"Ridley Scott brings in a couple of A-listers in Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe to take a shot at the spy globe trotting genre, and what we get is a very real feeling and superbly made film that will keep you guessing until the end. Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is a C.I.A. operative in the middle […]
Read more "Review: Body of Lies"Matthew Vaughn’s follow up to the excellent Layer Cake is a solid fantasy adventure that has gotten better on subsequent viewings. Tristan (Charlie Cox) live in the village of Wall that sits on the edge of the fantastical world of Stormhold which he has to cross into to find a shooting star to buy the […]
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