Inception

Inception...

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...
The Other Guys

The Other Guys...

Terry – “If we were in the wild, I would attack you. Even if you weren’t in my food chain, I would go out of my way to attack you! If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I’d swim out in the middle of the ocean and freakin EAT YOU! And then I’d bang your tuna girlfriend.” Allen...
Avatar

Avatar...

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...
2012

2012...

  “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...
Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds...

  I smell an Oscar! Sorry….that was egg salad. But seriously folks, Inglourious Basterds is my favorite movie of 2009. And I’ve seen a lot of movies in 2009. Basterds follows Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who leads a rag tag team of Jewish-American soldiers in Nazi-occupied...
Terminator Salvation

Terminator Salvation...

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...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men Origins: Wolverin...

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...