As Bigfoot-terrorizes-campers movies go, this one at least maintains a steady stream of scares and shows you enough of the hairy one to not make you feel gyped. Even so, you will find yourself rooting for the monster to prevail over at least half of these annoying campers as they make one cliched bad horror […]
In an era of sci-fi flicks brimming with mind-numbing CGI effects to overcompensate for flimsy storytelling, this clever film stands out as something truly special. An unassuming employee at an internet search engine wins a week at its reclusive CEO’s mountain getaway, where he is asked to determine whether the CEO’s Terminator-esque A.I. creation possesses […]
Sadly, the magic of the original is lacking in this sequel, which has the Barden Bellas seeking a world acapella championship title while juggling plans for their post-college lives. The predictability of the story would be excusable had it at least been less corny and more clever and funny. Fortunately the singing is good and […]
Glee meets Bridesmaids meets Bring It On in this strange and funny story about the world of college a cappella singing competitions. This is one you will want to watch again and again, repeating laughing about some of the truly hilarious one-liners from several of the quirky characters (Fat Amy, low-talking Asian girl, Elizabeth Banks’ […]
This fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise, 30 years after Thunderdome, is a surreal, over-the-top, adrenaline-fueled joy ride of action and violence – an assault on the senses unlike any film in recent history, with a surprisingly solid story that will keep you mesmerized throughout. Tom Hardy does an excellent job as the title […]
Brainiac high schoolers stumble across U.S. Defense Department blueprints for a time travel device. The initial fun and games turns serious when they realize even minor changes in the past create serious consequences. The story starts off interestingly enough, but like so many of these types of time travel films, it goes adrift in the […]
This visually interesting but disjointed sci-fi tale, produced by the Wachowskis (the creators of The Matrix movies) is one hot stinking mess. Mila Kunis is Jupiter, the unknowing genetic replicant of a galactic queen that owns Earth, who finds herself fighting a galactic family member (Eddie Redmayne), who wants to “harvest” the planet’s population. The […]
This quirky and cleverly written New Zealand comedy/mockumentary, about a group of vampire housemates trying to cope with a not-so-friendly modern era, has lots of fish-out-of-water, laugh out loud moments, even if the premise does wear a bit thin by its end.
The subject has the makings of Oscar material – the true story of a former U.S. Olympic runner Louie Zamperini, who survives having his plane being shot down over the Pacific during WWII only to endure a torturous existence in a Japanese POW camp. But Angelina Jolie’s amateurish direction turns it into a clumsy, heavy-handed […]
This latest formulaic Disney film is the true story of a down on his luck high school football coach who ends up creating a cross country running team when he takes a teaching job in California’s rural migrant country. On its surface, it appears to be predictable schmaltz, but a surprisingly strong story and a […]