Nov 30, 2013 | Movie Reviews
It’s nice to see Disney go back to its roots. Sure, the Mouse House has all but abandoned traditional animation for their feature films, but the old formula still works. Take a classic tale, like “Beauty and the Beast,” or even a Hans Christian...
Nov 9, 2013 | Movie Reviews
“Thor” Biding His Time Until Next “Avengers” When Marvel laid out their grand plan for a cinematic universe that would culminate in an “Avengers” movie every few years, they seemed to have thought out every possible angle for success. Each phase would feature, say, an...
Oct 19, 2013 | Movie Reviews
When Wikileaks first came to notoriety, some praised it as a watchdog that could keep corporations and governments honest. Then it became worldwide. The leaks became even more sensitive. The site’s founder, Julian Assange, began to exhibit strange behavior from the...
Oct 19, 2013 | Movie Reviews
“Escape Plan” Makes Action Fun Again This is the kind of movie we’ve been missing since the ’80s, when Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were at the peak of their powers. Not dour, over-the-top movies like “The Expendables” or retreads like “Predators.” In...
Oct 4, 2013 | Movie Reviews
Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13″ features Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon trapped on the spacecraft, working with NASA’s mission control in Houston, Texas to find a way to get safely home after mechancial failure puts their lives in jeopardy. Scary stuff, right? Now,...
Sep 7, 2013 | Movie Reviews
Richard B. Riddick is the best character Vin Diesel will probably ever play. The murderous convict who can see in the dark plays to all of the actor’s strengths, making the man a quiet, brooding, calculating badass. After “The Chronicles of Riddick” destroyed the...
