Take the rosters of the first X-Men trilogy and X-Men: First Class and stick them in a movie and, you’d think, the result would be an overstuffed mess. You’d be wrong. Simon Kinberg’s script for X-Men: Days of Future Past takes the storyline from the fan favorite comics, rejigs them a tad and creates a […]
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Review: X-Men Days of Future Past is Disappointing
This is one of those times when I really hate being a film critic. While watching X-Men: Days of Future Past, I thought to myself “This is an ugly looking film, but I’m enjoying the heck out of it.” Now that I really have to think about it, its flaws are too big to simply […]
It’s Not Perfect But It IS Godzilla!
Gareth Edwards gets so much right in his new take on Godzilla that it hardly seems fair to nitpick – not that I’m going to let that stop me.
The Amazing Spider-Man is a Soulless Corporate Blockbuster. Michelle’s Review
In an evil Green Goblin Broadway voice, sing with me, Spider-Man, Spider-Man, radioactive Spider-Man. After receiving lukewarm reviews from most and a downright hateful one from yours truly, The Amazing Spider-Man didn’t exactly set the world on fire. They have a lot to live up to in the bigger budget sequel and are clearly betting […]
The Other Woman – Michelle’s Review
Even though I’m not the biggest Cameron Diaz fan around, I had some hope that her latest The Other Woman would be good. I’m not sure what I was basing this opinion on since I don’t know anything about her two co-stars Leslie Mann and Kate Upton. But I like a good comedy, I even […]
Oculus is Plodding and Inconsistent, Michelle’s Review!
Whenever I see the title of the new film horror flick Oculus, my first thought is always – “Wow, they made a movie about the Virtual Reality Video Game makers, should be interesting.” My second thought is, what is the plural of Oculus? Oculi? I didn’t know what to expect when walking into this movie, […]
Draft Day Movie Review – Enjoyable, but Forgettable. Michelle’s Review
A lot of folks have been talking about the reinvention of Mathew McConaughey AKA the McConaissance, but what about the recent return of the never aging Kevin Costner? After disappearing for a few years, he’s on the come back trail. In his latest, Draft Day, he returns to a genre he’s synonymous with– the Sports […]
Michelle finally reviews Captain America Winter Soldier.
It is hard to argue that Captain America The Winter Soldier isn’t the best Marvel movie to date (although, I still think The Avengers is better), but it lacked something and I’m not sure what it was. Watching this film, I couldn’t help but think of this as Marvel’s version James Bond done the way […]
Why Veronica Mars is an Important and Fantastic Film: A Review for the Fans
I have a certain stylistic rules I adhere to when writing film critiques—for example, I do not write from the first-person perspective. But, because Veronica Mars wonderfully, and refreshingly, breaks most rules of film making and execution, I have decided to break my own rules in order to give the film the review it deserves. […]
Non-Stop Takes Audiences for a Ride. Michelle’s Review!
Liam Neeson has taken some lessons from Miley Cyrus, apparently he can’t stop doing films that are derivatives of his popular Taken franchise. They should have just called this “Taken 3” and called it a day. At times it almost seemed like Non-Stop was going in that direction until the writers realized what they were […]
The LEGO Movie Falls to Pieces! Michelle’s Review
The LEGO Movie is a prime example of why movie theater owners are right to complain about trailers. I felt like I saw the movie and was ready to love it before I even walked in the door. Imagine my disappointment when it ended up being different than the advertising campaign.