Why did we review this Irish indie flick? Because the options this week were: A) Watch Jesse Eisenberg do magic. B) Support nepotism. Still B) Watch Jaden Smith play with cartoon animals. Yep, still B) Continue laughing at the dead joke called M. Night Shyamalan. C) Review an Irish indie flick. Moving on then... Shadow Dancer isn't bad.... click to read more guy
It's really Furious 6 according to the opening credits, so we'll call it that from now on. Sounds cooler anyway. BAM. This movie rocked, and I say that as a guy who laughed out loud at the first one, skipped the next two and caught only half of the fourth... click to read more guy
It's so odd. While Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong are funny comedians and Bradley Cooper and Helms are wonderful comedic actors, The Hangover movies all seem to be like one big hacky comedian. By hacky comedian, I'm pointing at the comic who can make the drunken mob laugh but who... click to read more guy
If you're tired of Hollywood's "This wacky hitman is about to fall in love!" (or meet their long lost son or some dog or talking bunny that makes them appreciate life more or whatever) crap, see The Iceman. As Richard Kuklinski, the real contract killer who earned the nickname "Iceman" from... click to read more guy
To answer the question "Is Star Trek: Into Darkness too dark?," nnnoooo. In fact, twenty years ago it likely would've secured a nice PG rating instead of PG13, but unfortunately we now live in a world where people are afraid that misguided children may go nuts with tazer guns or... click to read more guy
Well, at least The Avengers may have made Marvel aware they needed to raise the bar just a tad above Iron Man 2. Anyway, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) is back with even more nutty suits than before to face down on some baddies via CGI action sequences. Is that enough... click to read more guy
Michael Bay must be sick of glamorizing douches, because now he's plain glamorizing kidnappers and murderers. What begins as a hilarious tribute to American meatheads soon becomes probably the most uncomfortable of all Bay's movies. Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) and Anthony Mackie respectively play Daniel Lugo, Paul Doyle and... click to read more guy
For decades, book junkies and fans of Jack Kerouac's classic read On the Road have pondered whether Sal Paradise (based on Jack Kerouac) had an unspoken crush on traveling partner Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady). The foreign hipsters who brought us The Motorcycle Diaries (that one about what a nice little... click to read more guy
Holy balls. It came. Willow on Blu-ray. Essential to any fan of entertainment's collection, Willow is simply the bomb. It's a movie with midgets that uses real midgets (those mythical people that producers must not believe in, seeing as how whenever anybody needs a midget for a movie nowadays we... click to read more guy