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First, I am not now, and have never been what you might call a Jerry Lewis fan. I generally find his comedy pretty insufferable. Second, I have never seen the Eddie Murphy remake of The Nutty Professor, but all I can say is that it has to be better than ...

Soundtrack to a Revolution is a documentary of the Civil Rights Movement in America, and it does a pretty good job at summarizing the major events. While it will never displace the comprehensive nature of the definitive documentary Eyes on the Prize, it wisely takes a different tack. The twist ...

'The Borrowers' series has been adapted to the screen (large and small) several times before, but never very successfully. But Hiromasa Yonebayashi (better known as 'Maro'), a rising star at Studio Ghibli, and the probable successor to Hayao Miyazaki, has done what none of the others could.The Secret World of ...

Sans Soleil has been heralded by critics for decades as a revolutionary piece of Avant-garde cinema. Perhaps, but that doesn't really mean it's particularly engaging. Like other Chris Marker films, it has a tendency to ramble. Ostensibly a of letters written to the narrator by a traveling cameraman, it seems ...

A biography of Margaret Thatcher was probably inevitable in a day and age where we get political biopics sooner and sooner after the subject's life and/or political career (Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland, W.); can a Ronald Reagan film be far behind?The film won an Academy Award, or more ...

A Game of Shadows should refer to a game of mysterious and sinister trickery between Sherlock and and Moriarty however the only dark game is the incredibly misleading advertisement of this movie by the studios to pull audiences into watching this over-exaggerated and ridiculous romp and the so called mystery ...

Dark Shadows seemed more preoccupied with simply being Dark Shadows, than being a good movie. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp in the lead up talked up their love for their love for the original soap opera, and that loves shows, but to someone with little prior knowledge to the show ...

Pigs is a "police procedural" (or more accurately "police-lack-of-procedural") set in the days following the collapse of Communism in Russia and the Eastern Bloc. It has a great premise, no doubt based on truth: when the Soviet Union fell, KGB agents began new careers, some as low-paid police officers, and ...

This movie has the feeling of a book heavily edited. Nothing really fits into place. Certain scenes have potential, but the film seems to have abandoned their emotional impact in favor of its hackneyed, morally problematic, intensely boring formula.The opening scenes becomes important later in the film so it would ...

I finally watched "Drive" last night. Heard a lot of buzz about it, both negative and positive, and finally saw it on instant streaming. An arthouse approach doesn't always work for me. But when it all comes together in a cohesive whole, like in Drive, it works. And boy, it ...

Congratulations to Marvel Studios for doing the highly improbable movie of all time (so far); putting several superheroes in one movie that is The Avengers. Setting this movie up is a monumental effort. There is a colossal investment involved, not only in money, but also in time and energy to ...

When this Movie came out, the Movie Mchale's Navy also came out, and I threw my chips into that movie, because my dad was a an of the show, So i thought it would be better, mostly because of the way the Trailers talked about this movie, I didn't take ...

This was one of the Better Elm Street Films, if you watched it back in 85, or any year before 95, this movie really pushed something in Horror movies that still haven't been touch. Why do some people hate this movie, Freddy is only in the film 13 minutes, How ...

What can I say?You've probably already seen this movie, and if you haven't...See this movie.With the last few Marvel films to reach the big screen ranging from lukewarm to only marginally good, they really needed The Avengers to be a hit. And by choosing Joss Whedon (himself a dyed-in-the-wool Marvelite) ...

Creepy and unnerving are two words I could use to describe Sound of My Voice, the story of a couple who enter into a cult group with the intention of unmasking their leader Maggie as a fraud. The movie was made for next to nothing, so it's extremely impressive that ...

New Year's resolution: Watch and review one classic movie every week for a year.Week #18: Out of the Past, in which Robert Mitchum embodies the archetypal noir protagonist, tilted fedora, battered trenchcoat, droopy cigarette, veiled threats and all. He’s matched note for note by Jane Greer as the archetypal femme ...

New Year's resolution: Watch and review one classic movie every week for a year.Week #17: Laura, in which we see a slew of actors, Clifton Webb and a young Vincent Price included, unconvincingly vie for the affections of murder victim Gene Tierney. It wasn’t much of a secret that Webb ...

When science fiction was new, stories that just dealt with space travel were good enough. Eventually though, space opera had to move on to something more substantive. The same is true with time travel. By this point, every permutation of time travel stories for the sake of exploring time travel ...

Oh, Dark Shadows. I've spent the last few weeks cursing Burton and Depp for turning my beloved tv show into something that resembles a pile of excrement, just from that trailer. But you can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you judge a movie by the trailer released ...

Captain America finally makes it to the screen. He may be the 'first' Avenger (and even predate Marvel Comics), but he's the last one to get a movie (if we discount a few low budget attempts at a Cpt.A. film). It's not surprising that in a day and age when ...

You know, it's my own fault. I know better than to read through a book series shortly before I go see the movie version. I've run into this problem hundreds of times, through a litany of celluloid and digital displays. The English Patient, Slaughterhouse Five, Gattaca, pick your Stephen King ...

I give my thoughts on the Avengers about 10 minutes in (after the mid-break), and they take up the majority of the review.This review is spoiler-free.

Iko Uwais as RamaWhile its audience is admittedly small, The Raid is sure to please hard-core action fans with its amazingly choreographed and edited fight scenes.Rama (Iko Uwais in what is hopefully a star-making role) is a new member of a highly-trained special ops force in Indonesia that is called ...

When I first heard about The Avengers, I didn't know how to feel. Of the recent Marvel films leading up to it, I had only watched the two Iron Man films, but had enjoyed them greatly. So, a few weeks before this release, I watched Thor and Captain America, and ...

For all the waiting we've done, the Marvel movie everyone has anticipated has finally arrived. The Avenger's swings its way into theaters across America, and I have to say it was well worth the wait.Now, I didn't think it was possible that the on-screen pairing of all of these heroes ...

The Avengers is a fantastic comic book movie. Right off the bat, I will say that I don't think it's as good as The Dark Knight (what is?) but they're such different movies that it doesn't really matter. It's a logical extension of the sort of fluffy crowd-pleasing summer blockbusters ...

Tyler StoutI left the theater with my Father in 2008 giddy as a schoolgirl. I was quickly and not very well explaining to my Dad who Nick Fury was and why Samuel L Jackson playing him was such a big deal. In between an explanation about alternate universes in comics ...

I'm going to start this review off with something different, because rather than giving a summary or stating my basic view of it, I'm going to address the complaints about this movie. I read lots of reviews and this film so far has gotten some pretty great ones, but there ...

Marvel's The Avengers is a movie we've been anxiously waiting to see for years now. If you're a comic book fan, the dream of watching this A-list team together on the big screen could be over a decade old. But, what really hit home was when Nick Fury came out ...

Well, with Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man trailer right around the corner... I figured I might go back and finally check out his first directorial effort, (500) Days of Summer. And wow, what a film. I'm not a romantic comedy fan, but Tom's story just connected with me. It's honest and ...

The Avengers has always been an ambitious project. An incredible amount of time and money have been poured into the Marvel franchises and its fans have been waiting a long time to see it culminate in all our heroes on screen together.Suffice to say, it does not disappoint.Loki is the ...

It’s not all the time that we see a movie as ambitious as The Avengers, Marvel has built a complete universe of characters and stories leading up to this event with fantastic results. For most of us who embraced this right from the moment we saw the post-credit scene in ...

Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol IMAX PosterMission Impossible is a odd franchise. 4 films, 4 different directors, 4 different takes on a IMF mission, and 4 varying levels of quality. Even with the dip in MI2 these movies continue to entertain with stories of Ethan Hunt and his ragtag group of ...

In his first two decades as a filmmaker, Peter Jackson never missed a mark, whether going for high camp or art house intellectualism, and Forgotten Silver is his excellent take on the mockumentary genre. Forgotten Silver is a fictional tale about a great New Zealand filmmaker whose work was 'rediscovered' ...

In a lot of ways, Escape from the Planet of the Apes is the flipside to the original Planet of the Apes film. In this installment, Zira and Cornelius and Caesar crash land in the 20th century where they are initially treated like animals, until a sympathetic animal psychologist learns ...

Ratcatcher is a beautiful film set in the less aestheticly pleasing back drop drop of the Glasgow tenement blocks of the nineteen seventies. It's a story about childhood, tragedy and an unutterable struggle against circumstance and surrounding before your life has barely begun. This is not a film that roars ...

After 4 years of slowly building a movie continuity, Marvel studios has finally released The Avengers (or Avengers Assemble as it is over here), and in short I loved it. As the build up occurred over the past 4 years there have been characters and films I liked more than ...

New Year's resolution: Watch and review one classic movie every week for a year.Week #16: The Graduate, in which Mike Nichols and Co. do their best to convey a message about the ultimate uncertainty of life, and find only modest success until the film’s iconic final shot. This was Dustin ...

Aardman Animation returns to its claymation roots (or at least silicon based structures that resemble clay) with their latest outing, The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Aardman has been known for their quick witted humor, but mainly for their charm that appeals to all ages, and I'm glad to say that ...

Jason Segel strikes gold again. In fact, I'm positive that this man can't make a bad movie at this point. I've enjoyed just about everything he's appeared in, and with the exception of "Jeff Who Lives At Home", I've seen all of his movies on opening day, which is kind ...

Up to this point, the best films in the in the Elm Street series are those that combine the talents of the original writer/director, Wes Craven, and the original cast, namely Heather Langenkamp and John Saxon. In other words, the first film and the third film. So, it's no surprise ...

Ever since Samuel L. Jackson popped up as Nick Fury at the very end of Iron Man to talk about the Avenger Initiative, the world responded with a Pavlovian trickle of drool that could not be stemmed. Given the quality of that and the subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, plus ...

Ashitaka and YakulThere are few directors who can claim to have a true epic under their belts. A film that can capture fans across different movie spectra. A film that is entertaining but also has a great story and characters to go along with it. George Lucas gave us Star ...

Dear Michael Bay, this is how you craft a damn summer blockbuster.After what seems like years of planning, millions upon millions of dollars, and enough patience to handle dealing with Robert Downey, Jr.'s ego for over seven years, the biggest comic book adaptation finally hits our theatres with a resounding ...

With a global financial crisis that's been going on for years at the time of this writing, and a growing disparity between rich and poor everywhere, even in the so-called first world, it was only a matter of time (pun intended) before someone came up with a sci-fi allegory about ...

The Avengers!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!This film does not disappoint! Having the hype building for a few years now to the climax of endless TV spots and clips from the movie this movie is well deserving of the excitement!Joss Whedon was the perfect choice for director! He just nailed it on the head ...

The first two Mission: Impossible films were a mess. Thankfully, this third film starts to improve things, largely thanks to Philip Seymour Hooffman who steals the show as the villain of the piece. As usual, the IMF is pretty much Tom Cruise and a handful of B-listers, but it's the ...

My problem with the entire Mission: Impossible series is that it trades in a great TV concept - an ensemble piece about an 'Impossible Mission Force' - for a series of Tom Cruise star vehicles with a rotating batch of supporting cast members. And while the series' attempt to balance ...

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is the first in the series of spy thrillers featuring M.I.6 spy George Smiley - though Smiley himself only appears briefly, playing a mostly behind-the-scenes role. Let's face it, John LeCarre's espionage stories are better novels than they are films - this ...

Spy movies shouldn't give away twists in the trailer. It kills what would of been a nice reveal for the audience for a genre built on secrets giving them away so easily just isn't right. The Double is a odd and rather boring bit of spy craft.In its trailer they ...