A kid with an implausible dream, a neo-conservative Batman and Robin and a social network combine in unexpected ways to provide Kick-Ass [both the film and the character] with an eager-to-please rambunctiousness that makes it both infectious and scary. Dave Lizewski [Aaron Johnson] has always wondered why no one ever just put on a costume […]
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Kick-Ass made Michelle feel Giddy and it’s the Best movie of the Year!
The week I saw Kick-Ass was, not to be too hyperbolic, a Kick Ass week of Entertainment. It started with my last day Wondercon where I finally had time to catch How To Train A Dragon – Amazing movie, then when I got home from San Francisco, there was a copy of the season premiere […]
MOVIE REVIEW: From Paris With Love – Pierre Morel Zips Another One Past Us!
In baseball terms, Pierre Morel’s [Transporter 3, District B13] best pitch is the high, hard heater – the shoulder high fastball. His movies tend to start off with a bit of scene-setting and then shift into high gear for the rest of the ride. So it is with From Paris With Love – a movie […]
MOVIES: Daybreakers’ Promising Start Leads to Wild Finish!
And the 2012 cinematic year gets off to a better than average start… Daybreakers, written and directed by The Spierig Brothers, gets to an intriguing beginning [despite some vampire projectile vomiting and explosions] as it sets up a world in which vampires are running a very human civilization: glitzy buildings; TV programming – including a […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Gamer – Making the First Person Shooter Personal!
It’s ironic that a movie that isn’t based on an actual videogame should come closer to feeling like a videogame. Gamer is the latest film from the Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor team responsible for the cinematic equivalent of a shot of adrenaline to the heart that is the Crank series. If you didn’t care for the […]
MOVIE REVIEWS: The Hurt Locker – War and the Effects of War!
Ever since Kathryn Bigelow made a splash with her “vampire western,” it was thought that she would one day produce a masterpiece. That day has come. The Hurt Locker is one of the year’s best films. Set in Iraq, The Hurt Locker is not about any particular war – this one just happens to be […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Crank: High Voltage – A Jolt of Adrenaline/Electricity to the Heart! CLEAR!
Crank: High Voltage steps up the adrenaline generating insanity that made Crank so much fun. Writers/Directors Neveldine and Taylor [who seem to have dropped their first names] have put together ninety minutes of craziness that picks up with Chev Chelios [Jason Statham] hitting the ground after falling thousands of feet from a helicopter – from […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Spirit Made My Toes Curl – But I Kinda Liked It!
In a summer during the early-to-mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy – not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer. It was about comic characters from the Golden Age of Comics [approximately 1939-1946 – your […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Punisher: War Zone: Even Stevenson Can’t Save The Punisher!
I’m a bit of a Marvel movie geek. I’ve seen all of them – including the Dolph Lundgren Punisher and George Lucas’ Howard the Duck, and the TV-movie of Doctor Strange [which I have on VHS]. I have most of them on DVD – and have re-watched most of them [including Howard the Duck] – […]
MOVIE REVIEW: Transporter 3: Taking Package X From Point A to Point B!
The basic premise of the Transporter movies is, as noted above, taking Package X from Point A to Point B. What makes the series fun is the obstacles that pop up every time we see Frank Martin [Jason Statham] take on a new gig. In Transporter 3, Frank is unwittingly involved into helping an eco-terrorist […]
DVD REVIEW: The Dead Zone: The Final Season – Still Intelligent After all These Years! by Sheldon Wiebe
The Dead Zone has been one of the most consistently intelligently written fantasy/science fiction series on television during its run. The story of John Smith [Anthony Michael Hall], who came out of a six-year coma with heightened psychic abilities, has mixed mythology eps dealing with Smith’s efforts to prevent Armageddon with standalone eps that dealt […]