Category Archives: movies

here we go

Speak of the devil, here is a wonderful little site that tries to identify which movie reviewer you should trust (or is at least most compatable with your likes). Unfortunately, I haven’t seen about 50% of the movies listed…  It did say I was most compatible with Roger Ebert, so I get the feeling [...]

need another roger ebert

Ok, I need a recommendation.  For years, my sole source of quality film reviews was Roger Ebert.  On roughly 90% of his reviews I agreed with.  I always appreciated the fact that he knew what the film was trying to be.  If it was a summer film whose purpose was simply to entertain, he respected [...]

a tale of two sequels

Ignore all the critics who opine about a lack luster Pirates 3. Go see it. It is a great summer popcorn movie. Obviously over the top, cgi driven, but clever and fun. Anyone who gave this movie a bad review was expecting way to much — or thought that because the [...]

Spider Man 3 - curse of the too

The pun here is definitely multi-layered.  This movie suffered from many, many things.  Too much action, not enough plot/story/characters.  Too over the top.  Too much cheese.  Too simplistic.  Too many villians.  Too fast.  Too much quick-editing (which is quickly becoming a personal peeve of mine).
Even at its core, it was following Spider-Man 2, in my [...]

more summer movies

I thought I needed to get this review out soon before I missed all the release dates. Some of these I’ve already covered but I stumbled across this “complete” list, and I thought I’d take a gander.
Spider Man 3
Bottom Line — this movie now holds the record for gross sales in the first weekend. [...]

Prince of Persia — The Movie

When it comes to successful rebirths of a video game francise, the most recent stellar performer must be Prince of Persia. It came a long way from its primitive beginnings on early Macintosh platforms. Even then it was still a great game. Ubisoft did a remarkable job with the original remake (The [...]

summer movie anticipation

First up and coinsiding with the release of the last novel a few weeks later, we have v5 of Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix. Definitely the darkest of the series and by far the longest. It looks like David Yates is taking the director helm this time around, who I unfortunately [...]