Monthly Archives: May, 2012
Review: Men in Black 3
Men in Black III is one of those movies that, according to all accepted rules of moviemaking, shouldn’t be nearly as good as it is. Here we’ve got the third instalment of a high concept comedy, that’s ten years out from a brutally disappointing sequel, with a lead who hasn’t been in a movie in …
Review: The Avengers
It’s pretty incredible that The Avengers is an actual movie and that it came out in theatres today. How many successful movies have been made by combining two separate franchises, let alone four? Comic books have cross-pollination ingrained in their DNA, particularly Marvel’s, but it was hard to imagine an Avengers movie as being anything …
Review: Wrath of the Titans
Originally Posted March 31st Though a remake of the 1981 film, 2010’s Clash of the Titans had its roots trace back to the “peplum” fad of the 1960’s, where bodybuilder stars played Greek warriors and gods in campy stories full of cheap sets and unintentional hilarity. “Clash” was a revival of that trends worst aspects, …
Review: The Devil Inside
Originally posted January 11th, 2012 “The Vatican did not endorse this film, or aid in its completion.” So reads the opening text of The Devil Inside, a new horror movie that purports to record events surrounding the exorcism of a criminally insane woman locked in a Vatican mental hospital. The filmmakers intended this to be …
Review: The Cabin in the Woods
Between trailers that give away the whole plot, a dearth of original stories, and the stream-of-conscience babbling of social media, it’s hard for a movie to surprise you anymore. So it is with great excitement that I ask you to keep whatever you hear about The Cabin in the Woods to a minimum. Watch the …
