First, this is really an Avengers movie that has Captain America's pretty face at the forefront. If you want to see almost all your favorite heroes from the last beeeeellion Marvel movies (except Hulk…
So I was surprised that I found Rise of the Silver Surfer to be entertaining, in an entirely popcorn-and-Red-Vines kind of way. The film reminded me of Saturday matinee movies of childhood, or action-…
Heck, even I sat in the theater thinking, “This is really good, but not quite as good as X2 or Spider-Man 2.” By the same token, the first films in those two franchises weren’t as strong as their sequ…
There is a lot to like about Snowpiercer, and there is a lot to forgive it for. Some initially dismissed it as "Hunger Games on a train," or some other derivation of the latest trend towards dystopian…
As we all know, there has been a barrage (quite literally... SLAM! BANG! POW!) of superhero movies lately. Audiences can't seem to get enough, even to the point of revisiting the recast characters aga…
Remember those ads in the back of comic books that showed a scrawny, 90-pound weakling getting sand kicked in his face by a bully? Well, that's Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). Through the miracle of techn…
If 1980s Kim Basinger were kidnapped and locked in an attic with nothing but a broken phone to save her, she most certainly would have spent the duration of that movie skittering around the room and l…
