‘The Expendables 3′ Review: Ageless, Brainless and Painless
‘The Expendables’ – a franchise created to revive the ’80s action movie style and provide a few fading stars from that era with pensions – has somehow made it to a third chapter. If you’ve seen the...
View Article‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ Review: Boobs, Booze and Blood… in 3D
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller might have taken almost ten years to mount their sequel to ‘Sin City’, but within seconds it feels like they never left. This isn’t so much a sequel as it is a second...
View Article‘Dolphin Tale 2′ Review: A Family Flick with a Sense of Porpoise
Three years ago, Warner Bros. gave us (what felt like) the first live action marine animal family film since ‘Free Willy’. Although its concept was based on a true story – a beached dolphin was found...
View ArticleThe Trailer Park: Horrible Hero Hunger
Among other things, November will bring us a bunch of sequels, plus one movie that sounds like it must be a sequel but actually isn’t. ‘Big Hero 6′ (Nov. 7) For a few years now, Disney Animation...
View ArticleSteelBook Alert: A Long Bad Night with Eva Green Is Probably Still a Pretty...
Robert Rodriguez’s long-awaited sequel to his cult hit ‘Sin City’ was expected to be a big blockbuster this summer. Unfortunately, the movie wound up fizzling at the box office. Hoping that fanboy...
View Article‘Dumb and Dumber To’ Review: Still Dumb, Still Fun
‘Dumb and Dumber To’ is pretty much guaranteed to get bad reviews. So did the first one, even though it’s now considered a comedy classic. Why? Well, because it’s stupid, nonsensical, lowest common...
View Article‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1′ Review: Half a Movie, But a Good Half
The latest ‘Hunger Games’ sequel adapts half the final book into what can only be described as half a movie. Granted, it’s a pretty good half a movie, but you can’t help feeling ripped off when the...
View Article‘Horrible Bosses 2′ Review: Horrible, Indeed
Sequels are hard to pull off in general, but comedy sequels seem to be the most difficult beast to master. Few things are less funny than a joke you’ve heard too many times. By necessity, most comedy...
View ArticleThe Trailer Park: Red Flag in Play
The past couple weeks have brought us some new movie trailers that got viewers giddy with excitement, but the small glimpses into these upcoming features also raise a few concerns. ‘Terminator Genisys’...
View Article‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Review: Been There, But Back Again
Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy might not be as strong as his ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, but at least it isn’t another ‘Star Wars’ prequel debacle. Now that all of the tedious set-up has finally...
View Article‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb’ Review: When Will This Night End?
The ‘Night at the Museum’ series refuses to go away despite being a consistent punching bag. In this third title, the franchise is as charmingly mediocre as ever. These movies aren’t art, nor do they...
View Article‘The Woman in Black 2′ Review: Hauntingly Crappy
When Hammer Films made an unexpected return a few years ago, it was a cause for celebration amongst horror nerds. In particular, ‘The Woman in Black’ recaptured the period class and stylistic panache...
View Article‘Taken 3′ Review: A Very Particular Pile of Crap
When ‘Taken’ debuted and a grizzled Liam Neeson mass-murdered his way into all of our hearts, there was undeniably something special about that particular slice of Eurotrash. Now six years have gone...
View Article‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’ Review: Irreverent, Not Irrelevant
Hard though it might be to believe, it’s been a full 15 years since the gang of lunatics over at Nickelodeon gifted the nutball ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ franchise to the world. Surely inspired in some...
View Article‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2′ Review: Bad, But Funny
The biggest joke in ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ was the fact that the movie even existed at all. It was beyond idiotic and that was the charm. ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2′ doubles down on this dumbness, and at...
View ArticlePoll: Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Alien’ Sequel Project
Neill Blomkamp, director of the excellent ‘District 9‘, the terrible ‘Elysium‘, and this week’s still-to-be-determined ‘Chappie’, wants to make an ‘Alien’ sequel. More specifically, he wants to make a...
View Article‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ Review: Even Worse the Second Time
I can’t believe that the absolutely abysmal ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ made enough money to justify the production of a sequel. The elderly all-stars return for another round of mildly racist...
View Article‘The Divergent Series: Insurgent’ Review: The Unspectacular Now
On a certain level, it makes sense that the explosion of Young Adult movie adaptations would follow a similar redundant track that YA novels always have. Anytime a YA novel hits, the Scholastic book...
View Article‘Furious 7′ Review: Magnificently Stupid
A parody movie mocking the ‘Fast and Furious’ series is on the way shortly, but can you help wondering why? There’s no way any parody could possibly be as absurd and hilarious as ‘Furious 7′. This...
View Article‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Review: Fine Blockbustin’
The biggest problem with ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ is simply that no movie could have possibly lived up to its expectations. 2012’s ‘The Avengers’ had the advantage of being the first movie to combine...
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