Disney has released the final trailer for John Carter in one last ditch effort to convince people this movie is worth seeing. It’s been woefully mismarketed from the start, but Devin’s review does give me hope that this will be a fun, Saturday matinee type of movie. I didn’t love John Carter, but I liked [...]
Point: “Action-packed, gorgeous, and faithfully whimsical: Hergé thought Spielberg the only director capable of filming Tintin. He was onto something.” Counterpoint: “It’s testament to either the genius of Hergé or the limitations of computer graphics – or more probably both – that two dots of ink from a Belgian cartoonist’s pen can express more wit [...]
KTSP’s Dewey Hopper reviews Back to the Future on the local news in 1985. He gives it 4 out of 5 hops. The best part about his review, other than all of it, is that he refers to BTTF as a Steven Spielberg film — same with the Goonies. Somewhere Robert Zemeckis is still steaming [...]
I wasn’t too excited for the upcoming X-Men: First Class, mostly because Fox’s track record isn’t all that great when it comes to superhero comic movies and also because it’s felt like the marketing department has gone into overkill to try and sell this movie. Well, my excitement just went up a few notches after [...]
Drew McWeeny, over at Hitfix, becomes the first person, that I know of, to review Marvel’s Thor. Overall he says it’s a pretty good piece of summer superhero celluloid. Chris Hemsworth, best known to audiences as Kirk’s father in that powerful opening scene to “Star Trek,” is just as good a fit for the character [...]
“Super proves that superhero films still have a lot of storytelling juice left in them. And all of those questions that superhero films deal with, about power and responsibility and the individual versus society, can still be asked in new and challenging ways. Make no mistake: this film is really over the top and liable to [...]
I’m generally hesitant to dive into the yearly British-period-drama-that-doubles-as-Oscar-bait movie, but in the case of The King’s Speech, which stars Colin Firth and Goeffrey Rush, it’s possible this is the best movie, aside from Inception, I’ve seen all year. Everything about the film is note perfect — the writing, the performances, the undeniable suspense and [...]
Jay Maynard, the man who will be forever known as “The Tron Guy” (yeah, it’s going to be the lead line in his obituary), got paid to review Tron: Legacy for Wired Magazine. What proceeds next is a restrained nerdgasm unlike any you have seen before. Perhaps the emotional ending influenced my final reaction. As [...]
Drew McWeeny on Disney’s Tron: Legacy: But as a film? “TRON” really doesn’t work. It’s poorly staged, poorly paced, and never quite brings all its ideas together. It is a visual marvel, but inert. In almost every way, “TRON: Legacy” is a perfect sequel to that first film. It also is a visual marvel, with [...]
Devin Faraci, at Badass Digest, gives the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit solid marks, calling it “a rich, vibrant movie, one that you can slip inside of and live within for two hours.” In fact True Grit has a surfeit of extraordinary acting talent on screen. There’s not a bum performance in the bunch; even [...]
