“2012″ Is A Disaster…Movie Of The Best Kind!

Whaduya mean…the sky is falling?
Here’s what you know going into a movie like this…the guy WILL get the girl, the dog WILL survive and there WILL be at least 3 situations where the hero narrowly escapes. One of these things does NOT happen in “2012″, but I’m not sayin’ which one. “2012″ is the latest disaster [...]

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BRAINZ…!!!

I KNOW my zombie movies and this guy is NOT in “Night of the Living Dead”
In Entertainment Weekly this week there is a big article counting down from A to Z all you could ever want to know about zombie flicks. My wife was paging through it last night and we got into a discussion [...]

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“Zombieland” Is Scary Fun For Everyone!

Do you like comedy? And romance? And Woody Harrelson? Oh…and zombies? If you answered ‘yes’ to each of these, then “Zombieland” is definitely for you! What might be the most fun I’ve had at the movies all year (although “Star Trek” was a lot of fun…it didn’t have zombies!), this little ensemble flick is exactly [...]

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“District 9″ Gets A 10

If ever there were a man who can compete with the vision of Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson is that person. The man has a gift for taking an idea or a thought and transferring it to the big screen. Or in the case of “District 9″, he has taken another person with a grand vision [...]

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“The World Is An Imperfect Place.”

Today we lost the eyes of my generation. In the 1980’s, there was no one more successful at his work than John Hughes. He wrote and directed some of the greatest teen comedies of that decade and of all-time. His works include “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, “The Breakfast Club”, “Some Kind Of Wonderful”, “Sixteen Candles”, “Weird Science”, “Pretty [...]

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“Harry Potter” Is All Grows Up

How many chapters are there again???
If you haven’t been following the Harry Potter films, here’s the jest…
Harry is going to school. He is studying to be a wizard. His parents were both excellent wizards. They were killed by some crazy evil wizard named Voldemort who also went to the school where Harry is studying. He [...]

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“Tron II” Looks AWESOME!

Remember back in 1982 when the supercool looking movie “Tron” hit the theaters? Being a sci-fi geek, I remember thinking how awesome it looked and how advanced the graphics were. Here is the trailer from “back in the day”…

So you had THAT look back then. Of course Disney dropped the ball and [...]

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“Alice” Looks Like A Rollicking Good Time!

Oh Tim Burton…how I love to hate and hate to love you. You made masterpieces with “Edward Scissorhands” and “Batman” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” (yeah…I said it. And I stand by it!). And then you had to go and destroy “Willy Wonka” a couple of years ago. So, of course, I thought your schtick [...]

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Public Enemies. Not Good. At All.

With 2 high-profile actors and a storyline that has been told several times before, “Public Enemies” entered theaters boasting something different for this summer season…an adult drama without tons of special effects. Which would be great if it were interesting. But it’s not. So that’s a huge problem. And a disappointing problem at that because [...]

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Iron Man Uh-Oh?

So yesterday the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly came to my doorstep and what was on the cover? Another picture of Megan Fox? No. A picture of Lady Gaga with a dominatrix outfit on? Nope. Another picture of a summer movie blockbuster? Yeah…kinda. Ok, ok…it was a promotional photo of the new Iron Man film [...]

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The Cure Is A Good “Hangover”…

Got the summer blahs? Well…I got a cure for you! With a cast of relatively unknown actors and a storyline that resembles another film from 1998, this movie could have been a complete flop. I mean…it’s a stereotypical scenerio…a bachelor party in Vegas followed by things going very wrong. Sounds like “Very Bad Things” with Christian [...]

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“Up”

I took my kids to see the latest Pixar film the other day and I was a little undecided which way I wanted to go with my review. Do I write it from an adult standpoint? Or do I consider what kids might think of this film and go from there? Because really this movie [...]

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Terminator Salvation

I just want this series to DIE already!!!
So many bad reviews, so little time. Honestly, I had heard so many awful things and then there was the whole Christian Bale yelling at a crewmate thing and the bad press and so on and so forth. So I really had low expectations even though I thought [...]

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Angels & Demons

I was feeling somewhat skeptical about this prequel to the hit Ron Howard directed film, “The DaVinci Code”, because the first film was so long and convoluted. I didn’t think it was a terrible film…it was just not a movie I had to see again. So going into this one, I didn’t have high hopes. [...]

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Star Trek

Going into Star Trek, I had heard good things, so it had that going for it. But I have never been a die hard Trekkie and so I didn’t have particularly high hopes for this flick. I figured that if I could be entertained for a bit, it would be successful. Well…I’m happy to report [...]

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