Movie Reviews
Morning Glory – A “Chick Flick” of a Different Variety
Morning Glory is not your average chick flick, though it embodies most of the necessary elements in order to be characterized as such....
Due Date Doesn’t Deliver
Due Date begins innocently enough with Robert Downey, Jr.'s character, Pete Highman, leaving his pregnant wife a message on her voice mail...
Read moreMegamind Asks: What if the Bad Guy Actually Won?
Megamind is a fun tale of a struggle between good and evil, unique in that the most important clash is between Megamind and...
Read moreConviction: The Movie and the True Story
Conviction tells the real-life story of a single mother named Betty Ann Waters, who tended bar while acquiring her GED, bachelor’s degree, and...
Read moreHereafter Poses Life’s Toughest Question
Hereafter effectively brings spirituality to real-life events, ranging from the now-historic 2004 Indonesian tsunami to the terrorist attacks of a London train station....
Read moreRed: Star-studded Cast Feels Crunched
Retirement. The word can conjure visions of sweet oases of rest and relaxation between games of golf and lazy morning bouts with crossword...
Read moreSecretariat Entertains Despite Flaws
Secretariat, directed by Randall Wallace, opens with Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, quoting a Bible verse from Job. In the verse, God speaks of...
Read more“It’s Kind of a Funny Story” Is Kind of Funny — and Profound
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is by far one of the better films to be produced in recent years. But viewers beware...
Read moreThe Social Network: A Picture of the Face Behind Facebook
In early 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Thefacebook.com in a dorm room at the not-so-humble nursery of the elite, Harvard University. The world, for...
Read moreLegend of the Guardians: 3D Tour De Force
Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, directed by Zack Snyder, is an animated film based upon the first three books in...
Read moreReview of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is analogous to viewing James Cameron’s 1997 hit, The Titanic. Both films generate the same sense of...
Read moreAlpha and Omega: Idaho Wolf Relocation Gets a Hollywood Nod
Alpha and Omega features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Danny Glover, and Dennis Hopper (in one of his last performances) and...
Read moreM. Night Shyamalan’s Devil
There are two categories of movie-goers: those who love M. Night Shyamalan’s films, and those who despise them. I count myself among those...
Read more“Resident Evil” and Its 3D “Afterlife”
Resident Evil: Afterlife is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and is the fourth in a series of films based on the...
Read moreOverdose: Video Exposé on Bailout Bubble
The independent British exposé film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis released last spring has been made available to Internet viewers on YouTube for...
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