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Vengeance God James Bond’s Quantum of Solace (3/5 Stars)

 

It’s been speculated by some that this new direction for Bond may have been borne in part out of Jason Bourne envy, but Casino Royale never dipped into outright Bourne copycatting. Continue reading ›

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Sex Is Cooties - Elizabeth ‘Zack And Miri Make A Porno’ Banks

“The 40-Year-Old Virgin” hottie Elizabeth Banks doesn’t think sex is sexy. Continue reading ›

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Must See The Dark Knight On IMAX (5/5 Stars)

Forget the great things you’ve heard about The Dark Knight. No matter how lavish the praise or how determined the hyperbole, it’s all understatement. The Dark Knight is I suppose the greatest superhero movie ever made, but it’s so far beyond the limited men in tights genre that attempting to compare it with movies like Spider-Man, Superman, or even Batman Begins is almost laughable. Continue reading ›

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Magnificent Hellboy II: The Golden Army (4/5 Stars)

Thousands of years after the crown of the Troll kingdom has been split into three parts to prevent the resurrection of the murderous Golden Army, the formerly exiled elf Prince Nuada (Luke Goss) discovers that his segment is being sold in a New York auction house. Continue reading ›

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Narnia At War In Prince Caspian (4/5 Stars)

More than any of the other “Narnia” books on which Disney’s movies have been or will be based, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a war movie. Continue reading ›

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Iron Man Ignites Summer ‘08 (4/5 Stars)

By the end of his film Jon Favreau’s Iron Man is a light and fluffy character, a superhero colored in with bright bits of crayon, but he doesn’t start out that way. Ironically it’s early on in the story when Tony Stark, the man inside the bright red suit, is still a carefree playboy and globe-trotting arms merchant that he has the most edge.

It’s there that Favreau’s superhero movie works best, as Stark is captured by a group of terrorists known as the Ten Rings (nod to all you Mandarin fans), injured, and forced to work in a dank cave designing weapons. Continue reading ›

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