Meet Hiro Hamada and his best robotic buddy, Baymax. Hiro would love to turn his soft-bodied, soft-hearted buddy into a heroic figure, but it’s not easy. As witness, check out the first trailer for Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Big Hero 6 after the jump. Based on the Marvel comic, Big Hero 6 is set to […]
Category: Movie Reviews
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.
Neighbors: Animal House vs. Post-Animal House!
Back in 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House introduced the crude-with-a-heart frat house comedy. Since then no one has done it better, but with Neighbors, there’s a new wrinkle that comes very, very close: college fraternity versus the previous generation. It features – among other things – career performances from Seth Rogan, Rose Byrne and Zac […]
Moms’ Night Out – Girls Just Want A Night Off!
The trailers for Moms’ Night Out suggest a girls’ night out with a dash of Adventures in Babysitting. They don’t suggest it might be a faith-based movie. Oddly enough, the mainstream approach – with its very light touch – works surprisingly well. It ain’t art – but it ain’t ham-fisted (at least in respect to […]
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 Amazing Spider-Man 2 Makes Spider-Man 3 Look Good!
For all its flaws, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 was committed. By comparison, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 a paint-by-numbers version of the comic. If not for the chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, TASM2 would be a complete bust – their on-again/off-again romance is the only part of the movie that feels at all real.
The Railway Man – Confronting the Horrors of the Past!
When Eric Lomax, a recently married man, freaks out his wife, Patti, with a seeming seizure, and she can’t get him to explain why, she seeks out one of his friends for the full story. The Railway Man is a tale of horrific torture in a World War II Japanese labor camp in Thailand that […]
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 […]
The Other Woman: Not Quite a One-Night Stand!
Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton deserve full marks for going all-in on this tepid riff on The First Wives’ Club. Their commitment provides some hilarious moments – if not quite enough to make the film memorable. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is also solid as the serial cheater.
Transcendence Doesn’t Happen Here!
In Transcendence, the wife and colleague of a dying man attempt to upload his consciousness into supercomputer AI with less than optimum results in a story bookended by a quiet, post-internet post-apocalypse world.
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, […]