Review: Captain America: The First Avenger

There’s nothing I want to like more than a movie about Amuuurica, and this installment from the Marvel Comics family had the reviews pouring in saying it was one of the best comic book films in quite a while. Well, unlike one of my personal patriotic favorites Team America, this was just decent..pretty fun, and [...]

Review: The Trip

Just look at the last few movies I’ve reviewed on this very site – what do they all have in common? They’re massive. Each one is an effects-heavy, science fiction, mega-blockbuster type of film. Let me quickly clarify – there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what the summer months are all about, and when fall [...]

Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

I’ve said in quite a few different posts throughout the years on this site that it’s an extraordinarily tall task to make a trilogy (or more) of movies that are all really good. Not one dud. The original three Star Wars, the Lord of the Rings…well, I’m sure there are others, but those are the [...]

Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon

There aren’t many trilogies of movies, or series with more than three separate films, that can stay consistently incredible. First two I think of off the top of my head – Star Wars (the original three) and Lord of the Rings. So that’s two successes – how about all of the failure? Spiderman, X-Men, The [...]