Review – Star Trek Into Darkness
May 15, 2013 by Merci P.
Star Trek Into Darkness is misleading for all its onscreen lens glare and the U.S.S. Enterprise’s bright bridge deck. One would think outer space is infused with visible sunlight. For the most part,... [Read more...]
Movie Review – Arthur Newman
April 26, 2013 by Tracey Brown
Ostensibly, Arthur Newman is about the title character (Colin Firth) faking his own death to escape his hated life and to start life over again as a golf pro. Along the way, he meets Mike (Emily Blunt)... [Read more...]
Review in 100 Words – Trance
April 12, 2013 by Merci P.
Danny Boyle (Slum Dog Millionaire) is anything but a formula motivated director, and Trance is his latest offbeat psychological thriller. James McAvoy (X-Men) plays the forgetful thief who renders... [Read more...]
Disconnect
April 5, 2013 by Maura Reilly
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can’t find the time to communicate with his family. A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed... [Read more...]
Evil Dead (2013)
April 5, 2013 by Maura Reilly
In the much anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant... [Read more...]
The Brass Teapot
March 25, 2013 by Maura Reilly
John and Alice live in small town America – 20s, married, very much in love, and broke. Once voted “most likely to succeed,” Alice struggles to make ends meet while her friends enjoy the good life.... [Read more...]
Trance
March 25, 2013 by Maura Reilly
Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover... [Read more...]
Welcome to the Punch
March 25, 2013 by Maura Reilly
The second feature from acclaimed British music video director and filmmaker Eran Creevy, WELCOME TO THE PUNCH is the story of two arch-nemeses: detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy; X-MEN: FIRST CLASS,... [Read more...]
The Place Beyond the Pines
March 25, 2013 by Maura Reilly
The daring new movie from the director of Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines is a sweeping emotional drama powerfully exploring the unbreakable bond between fathers and sons. Luke (Academy Award... [Read more...]
Movie Review – Olympus Has Fallen
March 22, 2013 by Merci P.
Finally, an action film that shows the tougher, meatier side of Gerard Butler! Through his character, Mike Banning, Gerard shows off his sophisticated capability as a Secret Service agent who morphs... [Read more...]
Love and Honor
March 11, 2013 by Maura Reilly
In this romantic drama set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the moon landing, two charming and passionate young soldiers will go to any length for love—even sneaking away from a war to fly... [Read more...]
Olympus Has Fallen
March 11, 2013 by Maura Reilly
When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself... [Read more...]
Movie Review – Jack the Giant Slayer
March 1, 2013 by Merci P.
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread. ~Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk (1890) This is not the way the poem... [Read more...]
Stoker
February 15, 2013 by Maura Reilly
After India’s (Mia Wasikowska’s) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother... [Read more...]
Jack the Giant Slayer
February 15, 2013 by Maura Reilly
An ancient war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive... [Read more...]
Safe Haven
February 15, 2013 by Maura Reilly
An affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again, Safe Haven is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks, the best-selling author behind the hit films The Notebook and... [Read more...]
Beautiful Creatures
February 15, 2013 by Maura Reilly
A supernatural love story set in the South, “Beautiful Creatures” tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers: Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and Lena (Alice... [Read more...]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
January 10, 2013 by Maura Reilly
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first of a trilogy of films adapting the endearingly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R.... [Read more...]
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
January 10, 2013 by Maura Reilly
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel... [Read more...]
Broken City
January 10, 2013 by Maura Reilly
Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) has a promising career as a New York City cop until the night he is involved in a controversial shooting. Stripped of his badge, but kept out of jail by New York’s... [Read more...]
Zero Dark Thirty
January 10, 2013 by Maura Reilly
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden. Zero Dark Thirty reunites... [Read more...]
Gangster Squad
January 10, 2013 by Maura Reilly
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and–if he has his... [Read more...]
Movie Review – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
December 15, 2012 by Merci P.
Travel into the world of fantasy in the first installation of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, the prequel to Lord of the Rings. In this introductory chapter, hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman... [Read more...]
Silver Linings Playbook
November 20, 2012 by Maura Reilly
Life doesn’t always go according to plan… Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything — his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver)... [Read more...]
Rise of the Guardians
November 20, 2012 by Maura Reilly
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes – each with extraordinary abilities. When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the... [Read more...]
Loading ...