If you’re getting tired of all the big summer blockbuster superhero remake sequel madness, and I can assure you that Mr. Holmes is some excellent counter programming. And frankly, I’ll watch Sir Ian McKellen do just about anything, and most definitely watch him play the great sleuth Sherlock Holmes. I need to see him in…
There haven’t been too many surprises this summer. Mad Max: Fury Road is still the best movie of the season so far, Terminator Genisys was a general disappointment; however, the next biggest movie may have the smallest hero in it, but some of the biggest fun. Yes, Ant-Man is actually quite entertaining. Marvel manages to…
As the best thing about the Despicable Me films, you’d think the Minions would make for a great movie. Unfortunately, instead of creating some kind of fun origin story, which Minions starts to do, they just tell another story of how the minions worked for another uber villain. It’s much the same luke warm fun.…
Any film that spends a sixth of its running time watching its lead characters take ecstasy and following the come-on, the high and the come-down is not playing by the rules. Magic Mike XXL plays by nobody’s rules. Practically plot-free (and, with the exception of a couple of moments in the beginning, totally conflict-free, thereby violating…
Terminator Genisys might win an award for most green screened fight scenes and stunt guys pulled by cables. Or maybe for the highest number of convenient explanations pulled from a characters ass. I think Evel Knievel was in this because, holy shit there were quite a lot of leaps in logic here. I think disbelief…
You know, Ted 2 has way more semen in it than is comfortable. I mean, it ‘s got more semen in it than most gonzo porn films. And let’s face it, I don’t mind some gonzo porn, so wow, you’re talking about a lot of ejaculate. Seth Macfarlane’s humor seems to swing wildly from smart…
I initially thought that making another Jurassic Park film was an exercise in superfluous redundancy. Well, I still kind of think that, but as one of the summer’s surprises, Jurassic World is actually pretty entertaining. Not that the film offers any surprises, mind you. There are no “didn’t see that coming” moments in the film itself.…
Jurassic World is as meticulously crafted as the strange, clean, efficient theme park that is the real central character of the movie. This script knows how to hit a story beat, how to let a cliffhanger of a line lead directly to the next scene, with appropriately cued, swelling music. It knows that a large part…
Tomorrowland will be remembered as the film that launched Britt Robertson into movie stardom. As Casey Newton, the feisty, science-minded daughter of a NASA engineer, Robertson does everything she can to single-handedly power this awkward, confused, shambolic young adult fantasy along. She can do perky, she can toss a double-take, and her wide-eyed, eyebrows-up, mouth-agape…
There is nothing inherently awful about the big screen version of HBO’s Entourage television series, other than it has absolutely no reason, or justification, to exist. Big screen versions of television shows are nothing new. I’m not talking about decades-later reboots but simply transitions to the big screen, including original actors and, often, sets, props and situations.…