Many who have seen Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bending thriller Inception think they have it figured out. Poor manys. You are all wrong. Hush now….just because I know the secret and you don’t doesn’t mean that I’m smarter than you. It just means...

First a letter: Dear 3D, I don’t like you and you don’t like me. That’s understood. However, you recently made an appearance in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and I actually enjoyed you. Why do you have to draw me off sides like that? We had an agreement that I would no...

To say that the CGI animation in James Cameron’s epic Avatar was amazing would be an understatement. This was visually the most spectacular movie I’ve seen since Popeye. Ok bad analogy. Mr. Cameron created a world with seamless interaction between live actors and ground-breaking...

  “No more pull-ups.” 2012 had that perfect convergence of big special effects, non-stop action, corny dialogue, and big-ish name actors that resulted in what I can only describe as a f#&king disaster. See what I did there? 2012 is Armageddon  plus Knowing  and...

Terminator Salvation offered great special effects, great action, and sexy robots. No…that was The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  Salvation just had the great effects and great action. Too bad. I really like sexy robots.  Technically there were robots, but most of them just...

When I was 13 I went to see Return of the Jedi. I got chills when Darth Vader decided to drop his deadbeat Dad rep and save Luke Skywalker from certain death at the hands of Emperor Palatine. Yeah…I’m a Star Wars geek. Wow. It feels so good to finally say it out loud. I left the...

During the opening scene of  Gavin Hood’s (no relation to Little Red Riding) X-Men Origins: Wolverine I wondered to myself, “jeez, how old is this guy?”, ”he’s got a brother?”, and “what the hell is a Wolverine?”.  All those questions...

I went to see Watchmen with low expectations. I know nothing about the comic book. According to people in the know, it is the quintessential graphic novel. I have no idea who those “in the know” people are, but I’m sure they know what they’re talking about....