I’ve always been a huge fan of Nicolas Cage he generally makes a good to great pop corn summer movie and match him up with “blow em up good” expert Jerry Bruckheimer add in elements of fantasy and magic and we have a surefire good time. What the heck happened? The movie never seems to […]
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is Practically the Definition of Goofy Summer Fun!
It’s that time of summer, again: Bruckheimer time. Instead of another National Treasure film, though, this time we’ve got The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – inspired by [and including an homage to] the Mickey Mouse/Sorcerer’s Apprentice short from Fantasia. It’s a loud, jam-packed, cheerily crazy piece of work that could spawn yet another franchise for Bruckheimer and […]
EM Night at Movies – Inception, Tomorrow Night, Baltimore, HURRY!!!
It’s time for me to do a Mea Culpa, things got hectic with my day job and I totally forgot to launch this contest last week. Our buddies at Warner Brothers have given us passes to the Baltimore Screening of Inception, it’s tomorrow night – July 13th!!! I told them I wasn’t sure we have […]
The Girl Who Played With Fire Burns Brightly in a Mediocre Summer!
In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we first met researcher/hacker Lisbeth Salander [Noomi Rapace] and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist [Mikael Nyqvist] as they investigated the niece of a Swedish business giant. Now they’re back and trying to prove that Salander hasn’t committed three execution-style murders.
Predators’ Counter-casting Makes Things Interesting!
After a couple of decades, why not go after a sequel to one of Arnold’s most iconic films, Predator? It’s not like every attempt to use the interstellar hunters of the film have gotten much good press from the other three films to feature them – and as long as you’re going to do a […]
Bland Despicable Me, means Boring Review from Michelle!
Despicable Me is a decent movie that falls victim to 5 key flaws: A marketing campaign that gives away all the best parts, I generally don’t like Steve Carell, boring minions, bland and lifeless animation and it’s in 3D.
Hogwarts is on FIRE! Great Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 7 Poster!!
David Yates Please don’t mess this up. Please don’t mess this up like you did the last two films. Redeem yourself! While the trailer looks amazing and I love this new One Sheet, I have very little faith in David Yates he is going to screw this up like he did the last two movies. […]
The Next Spider-Man/Peter Parker is….. Andrew Garfield!! Whaaaa? Who is this?
It’s official, Sony Pictures just sent over the press release announcing that Andrew Garfield is the next Peter Parker. How do you go from Tobey Maguire to this guy? He looks too old for the part, since rumor has it’s going to be yet another origin story. Who is this guy, you all ask? I […]
Twilight Bus Rolls on – Breaks Box Office Record and Stars Surprising Fans at Theaters this Weekend
Looks like the Twilight buzz is just starting. It broke the Box Office record for a Wednesday opening and this weekend talent from the film will be making various theater visits across the country to surprise fans this weekend. Word on the street is that someone may be making an appearance at DC/VA area theaters! […]
The Last Airbender, Michelle’s First Walk Out in 3 Years!
Wow, just wow. Is M. Night Shyamalan capable of making a decent, compelling movie anymore? I didn’t like The Sixth Sense, but I appreciate how well made that movie was, and I liked Unbreakable, but after that he hasn’t made a single movie that I’ve liked and in the last few years a movie I […]
The Last Airbender: Book One: Water – It’s Not as Bad as Lady in the Water!
The question is this: how does one adapt over four hundred minutes of story from twenty episodes of an excellent animated series into a one hundred-minute movie? The answer is, apparently, not very well. A slightly less pressing question might be: why did anyone think a hastily applied 3D conversion would help this muddled excuse […]