I might have an addictive personality, and this isn’t necessarily bad. The things I find myself wrapped up in are generally good, or at least not harmful to me or anyone else. For example: several months back I was reminded of the horror director/circus barker/fabulist William Castle. I knew of his movies (The Tingler, 13 [...]
Last week I reported that Transformers: Dark of the Moon was one of the laziest, most unentertaining films I’ve seen in a long time. After subjecting myself to that, I needed a palate cleanser, and I got it big time. There are many Woody Allen movies that I don’t like–Match Point, Bananas, and Anything Else, [...]
Even before I bought a ticket to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I questioned why I was going. The first Transformers film was novel–it at least took me back to my childhood. The second one was awful, though I do like seeing movies shot in Philadelphia. So, why would I imagine this third installment [...]
When I was a kid and spending my allowance on comic books every week, I was always very eager to get my hands on the latest copy of Green Lantern. Looking back, I’m not sure what it was about him that was so intriguing to me. Maybe it’s because he was green? There weren’t a [...]
I usually like comic/graphic novel movie adaptations. Especially when I’ve read the print version, which is a lot of the time. I never read the manga book of Priest though, so I wasn’t exactly sure of the story. I knew there were vampires and a stylized post-apocalyptic world that we see so often in these [...]
Of all the Avengers superheroes, Thor has always been the least appealing to me. I’m not sure what it is, but I just never got that excited about anything the character was involved in. The same goes for the movies. I was very excited about Iron Man, and really can’t wait for Captain America (though [...]
Against my better judgement, I headed out to the movie theater to see Fast Five this weekend. I prefer going during the week because there usually aren’t as many people, and I knew the theater would be packed for this film. What I always seem to forget though, is that the young people who are [...]
FInally got a chance to see Hanna in the theater. I’d been excited about this film because even from the trailer I could tell there was a much different feel to it than most things out there right now. That turned out to be entirely true. Directed by Joe Wright, who is better known for [...]
There have been a lot of really compelling documentaries about environmental and social concerns over the past few years–some of them even getting Oscar nominations and wins (The Cove, Gasland, An Inconvenient Truth). It seems like as time goes on, more and more of these films are helping to raise awareness about threats to the [...]
For no reason at all, other than because I’m curious to see what I’ll write, I’d like to tell you the top ten films I saw in 2010. It’s tough because I saw a zillion movies last year. But I’ll do my best. Maybe because I saw so many, I’ll do ten that were actually [...]