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Friday, July 4, 2025

Film Reviews

Film Reviews
Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer try to catch up with the bad guys’ train car in The Lone Ranger.

Ay! Oh, Silver!

The most fascinating bad movie of the summer, The Lone Ranger is out to do far more than simply revive the character created as...
Gru tries to get his minions back to work in Despicable Me 2.

Gru Some More

Most of the creative personnel from Despicable Me have carried over to the sequel, Despicable Me 2, so we shouldn’t be surprised to find...

Larry Stanley Returns Home

Larry Stanley is an avowed Christian whose religion informs his filmmaking, but he doesn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Christian filmmaker. “I don’t...
Amy Acker (under counter) hides from her friends’ conversation about her love life in Much Ado About Nothing.

Malibu Shakespeare

The story instantly passed into legend among both comic book geeks and theater geeks: After wrapping shooting on The Avengers in 2011, Joss Whedon...
“I want to lead a country one day, for all I know.” Emma Watson holds court in The Bling Ring.

Louboutins

I don’t give a crap about women’s shoes, yet there is a shot of Paris Hilton’s shoe closet, about halfway through The Bling Ring,...
Sulley and Mike face off in front of a frat house (and an appreciative monster audience) in Monsters University.

Learn From the Monsters

Early in Pixar’s latest movie, Monsters University, Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) steps onto the campus of his college for the first time...
Henry Cavill presents himself to the United States military in Man of Steel.

Man and Superman

The first time we get a good look at Superman in Man of Steel, he’s a bearded dude (Henry Cavill) in a rain slicker...
Brit Marling is geared up to live off the land in The East.

A Star in The East

Arriving in local theaters this week, The East is not only as good a thriller as you’ll find right now but also the latest...
Where others see a default homepage, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn see an opportunity in The Internship.

Googly Oogly Oogly

Cast your mind back to 2005 for a second, when MySpace was the internet’s hottest website, Desperate Housewives was the most exciting new show...

After Earth: Aftertaste

Remember when M. Night Shyamalan was a household, if lazily mispronounced, name? The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs made him and his signature twist...