dvaeg (Level 17)

...but as a film-lover, this one's a mixed bag and I have to posit that your mileage may vary. As in, you might get half the mileage I got out of it. As a Green Lantern fanboy, I was immeasurably thrilled to finally see my favorite comic book on the ...

Green Lantern: Emerald Knights is the direct-to-DVD animated equivalent of a sitcom clip show. A basic, almost inconsequential framework is established when the planet sized villain Krona starts to escape the anti-matter universe. From here the movie devolves into a series of tangentially related vignettes telling early stories of the ...

It's incredibly difficult to separate what I wanted Tron Legacy to be from what it actually is.   The boy who, at 7 years of age saw the original Tron in the theater has grown up, and much like Kevin Flynn, his beard is now full of grey and he ...

I have to applaud anyone that can write a serious, concise review of On Stranger Tides.    Better men than I have likely tried and failed to summarize their thoughts on this film.    But alas I'm a sucker, so here goes nothing.On Stranger Tides is either a 3 star film or ...

As a long-time, die-hard, steadfast supporter of almost everything HBO does, I waited with bated breath for the release of this, a serial-form visual telling of what is arguably the third hottest fantasy IP around (behind Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter). Would it stay true to the original ...

If ever you are asked about the difference between a movie and a film, here's one you can point to that lands right smack on the line.   It's not high art, but it's technically impressive, enjoyable in most ways, engaging and satisfying, but the technical artistry so completely outshines the ...

Akira Kurosawa's best movie doesn't have a samurai in it.   I know that's sacrilege in some circles, but hear me out.   Actually, don't hear me out, just go see the movie.    In the first few moments of the film, we know the protagonist will die.   Stomach cancer, says the narrator, ...

Iconic as they come, Casablanca embodies the Hollywood movie of yesteryear. Topical, romantic and filled with arguably the most identifiable characters ever put to film, Casablanca does everything right, nothing wrong and is the world's first timeless love film.Casablanca tells one of the Great Stories, that of lost love. In ...

Kick Ass does a lot of things right, and it's because it does so much right that the one thing differentiating it from other Super Hero films makes such a large impact:  the violence.    Plenty of films touch upon the "What If Superheroes Were Real?" question, most set themselves in ...