You get a lot of film genre bang for your buck with this Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino) film.  Set against a Western backdrop you also get film noir and drama for your watching eff [ ... ]

Every hero has a back story even when that hero is an orange cat in leather boots.  It makes sense that Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) didn’t just appear when the story of his green ogre friend S [ ... ]

I’ve always thought that Kate Winslet, besides being a very talented actress, was a fearless lady.  She picks difficult roles that oftentimes involves being naked and sometimes involves unlikable c [ ... ]

I’ve always thought that Kate Winslet, besides being a very talented actress, was a fearless lady.  She picks difficult roles that oftentimes involves being naked and sometimes involves unlikable c [ ... ]

Why? Why? I did not see the original, but I have now seen 2 and 3 and the only thing I can say is Why?  Why?  Why was this film made?  Obviously for the pure reason of cashing in on the success of  [ ... ]

In these last couple of days before the Academy Awards it is an ideal time to look back at the history of the most prestigious awards show in the film industry.  The very first film to win the Academ [ ... ]

The latest season of the nerdy metal heads is here for you to enjoy at your leisure. In the 90s they were a big hit and became a part of the pop culture. If you are not familiar Beavis and Butt-head a [ ... ]

Not all romantic films have to feature two well off, attractive people.  The main thing is that they have to have chemistry.  Woody Allen and Diane Keaton have chemistry to burn in this film.  Ever [ ... ]

Love means never having to say you are sorry.  This line from Arthur Hiller’s (See No Evil, Hear No Evil, The Babe) hugely popular film from 1970 went on to become as famous as the film itself.  I [ ... ]

What other director could make the biopic of the most beloved and famous African-American leader during the fight for civil rights in the United States?  Spike Lee with his fiery ways was born to mak [ ... ]

With recording artists we always talk about their “follow up” albums.  If one album is a success then we put a lot of pressure on the next one.  It is not exactly the same with film directors.  [ ... ]

Satire is the forte of Oscar winning director Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot, Ocean’s Eleven) and he takes on the corporate world in this film.  Writer/director Wilder and actor Jack Lemmon have do [ ... ]

While sitting in my living room watching this travesty I thought to myself that maybe Meaghan Fox was not as crazy as I previously thought her to be.  She was obviously wise enough to get out of this [ ... ]

Having been too young to see this film when it first was released in 1980 as I was 11-years-old, it was a film that fell between the cracks and I never saw.  The rerelease of it on blu-ray afforded m [ ... ]

As many of the original characters died at the end of the original Magnificent Seven, Yul Brynner is the only one back for the sequel.  Unfortunately for fans of the first film and Westerns in genera [ ... ]

Sport has brought about plenty of good stories featuring tragedies and people overcoming them.  The Fifth Quarter (directed by Rick Bieber) features both.  Tragedy and heroism is usually a winning c [ ... ]

After their loss at Regionals the glee kids are initially quite down. After some time New Directions picks itself up, dusts itself off and starts all over again.  Only this time more determined than  [ ... ]

Last summer the phenomenon known as Glee picked up and went on the road. Those perky youngins’ who can dance and sing with the best of them (the musical numbers are by far the best parts of the show [ ... ]

I don’t know if I’m losing it or what…I liked it.  I could leave it there, but I feel that owe you an explanation.  This is a film with a heavy dose of fromage.  The good kind.  Not the blue [ ... ]

Contagion is a scary and compelling film.  Coming out of it I began to wonder if we should be putting our energies toward rooting out and stopping terrorists or towards contagious disease research. I [ ... ]

We’ve all seen action films like this before.  Films like Speed, Under Siege or Die Hard have used similar stories.  The race against time, terrorists and some threw in a mode of transportation (b [ ... ]

Now that you have talked your parents into getting you a puppy for Christmas I feel safe putting out the review for the second installment in the Marley/bad dog films.  We can all agree that this Gol [ ... ]

Fifty years ago John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Eagle Has Landed) made a fantastic cowboy film.  It was great because it wasn’t your typical cowboy film.  The Magnificent Seven was originally  [ ... ]

With animated films one of the most important elements is the voice cast.  Ku Fu Panda 2 has an excellent one with Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogan, Jack Black, Michelle Yeoh,  [ ... ]

While it stars all our favourites from the Ice Age animated film series it is not a feature film. A short film. 26 minutes short. Now you might think I’m being a little Grinchy by pointing this out  [ ... ]

After being the big surprise hit at the box office in 2009 you had to know that there would a sequel to The Hangover.  And you must have also known that it was going to be more of the same since it w [ ... ]

The year is 1941 and diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan are at an all-time low.  Diplomatic means are attempted through Washington, but they fail.  Isoruko Yamamoto (So Yamamur [ ... ]

If you are a young director and are looking to take on a veteran man behind the camera as your mentor then Steven Spielberg isn’t a bad choice to make.  Spielberg over the course of his career has  [ ... ]

More fun than a barrel of inbred cannibalistic hillbillies!  It is not often you read this, but how else would you start a review of a film like Wrong Turn 4?  If you have seen the other three Wrong [ ... ]

This was in many people’s books along with Bridesmaids the funniest comedy film of the year.  It was also a surprise hit.  Seth Gordon’s (Four Christmases) film was easily relatable in some resp [ ... ]

ENOUGH WITH THE VAMPIRES!!!  There now I’ve said it, gotten it off my chest and can now return to my usual level headed, unbiased critic mode…hopefully… Finally in his senior year Charley (Ant [ ... ]

I have accepted that in Hollywood there are very few original ideas.  Sometimes it seems to me that they are just making the same few films over and over with the belief that they no one notices.  W [ ... ]

As J.R.R. Tolkien might have said, this film is not a good one nor a bad one rather it is from Middle Earth.  As far as superhero films go it is not as good as Thor or X-Men: First Class, but not as  [ ... ]

With Manhunter we had to deal with someone else playing the role of Dr. Lecter.  At least that movie came before The Silence of the Lambs, so the debate happened years after.  This time we have to d [ ... ]

When this Richard Donner (The Goonies, Lethal Weapon) directed and starring Bill Murray (Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters) film was released in 1988 the critics were none too kind to it.  I guess they wan [ ... ]

Ten years it took for three Mission: Impossible films to be made and released into the cinemas.  There will be a fourth released soon.  This blu-ray collection is an excellent way to refresh yoursel [ ... ]

Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help, was a huge success.  Published in 2009, it was the type of book that everyone who read it loved it so much that they recommended it to a friend and so on a [ ... ]

Harry Potter and Twilight step aside as you are not the o­nly game in town.  All it takes is the return of Beauty and the Beast - this time in 3D for o­ne to realize that Disney reigns supreme in c [ ... ]

The first film in the series from DreamWorks, How To Train Your Dragon, was a surprise hit in 2010.  Gift of the Night Fury is the continuing of the saga involving dragons.  The package contains thr [ ... ]

Based on Thomas Harris’ book Red Dragon this is the Hannibal Lecter film starring someone other than Anthony Hopkins as the creepy serial killer.  Brian Cox (Troy, Braveheart) takes on the scenery  [ ... ]