Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Your child’s favorite Renaissance reptiles are back, Michael Bay style. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboots the kids franchise, complete with explosions, the Shredder, April O’Neil, …
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Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a ho-hum comic book film masquerading as a Marvel superhero film. It has its high-flying moments and surprisingly intimate interpersonal …
Movie Review: The Monuments Men
Turns out Hitler was a REALLY bad guy. In addition to the genocide of Jews, the man also wanted to wipe the artistic influences in …
Movie Review: 47 Ronin
How many times can Keanu Reeves play the chosen one? I guess he felt he’d done it too many times in the US, so he …
Movie Review: Thor: The Dark World
Thor doesn’t deserve a franchise: Loki does. Thor: The Dark World is a stop-gap Marvel film padding future superhero adventures with some post-credits action and …
Movie Review: Blue Jasmine
Yuck. The sum of Blue Jasmine’s parts – acting, character development, storytelling – are significantly greater than the whole of Woody Allen’s new film. The …
Movie Review: This Is 40
This Is 40 has been marketed as the everyman’s movie about what it truly is like to be 40 years old in the US, complete …
Movie Review: Piranha 3DD
An extra D is accurate for Piranha 3DD. Yes, there are a lot more boobs than in this one. That also includes the clueless characters …
Movie Review: Anger Management
Anger Management could have been a fascinating “pass the torch” movie. It takes one of the great comedians of today, Adam Sandler, and puts him …