Star Trek Into Darkness
As a Star Trek fan, I was initially skeptical of J.J. Abrams attempts to reboot the movie franchise. Especially by taking another stab at the past, which despite some gallant efforts from some fans...
View ArticleThe Purge
Many of us have seen movies or tv shows dealing with an alternate reality of our country or the entire world. They range from that classic Twilight Zone episode, “ The Eye of the Beholder” to being...
View ArticleMan Of Steel
“You’ll believe a man can fly.” This tagline graced one of the first posters of 1978’s “Superman The Movie.” It was made for a whopping 55 million with a total worldwide gross of over 300 million, and...
View ArticleKick Ass 2
“My dad made me promise I’d never stop defending this city.” Chloe Grace Moretz’s Hit Girl is as solemn as she is deadly when asserting this apparently sacred mantra. Aaron Taylor Johnson’s Dave...
View ArticlePrisoners
Unless you or your family have experienced it for yourself, you have absolutely no concept of the mental and physical stress people endure when the ultimate nightmare occurs- a missing child. And...
View ArticleRush
Even if you’re not into Formula 1, or any other type of auto racing, Rush is the engaging true story about two competitive men whose fierce rivalry, fueled by their diametrically opposite...
View ArticleThor:The Dark World
If there were any possible justification Marvel could have for giving Loki his own movie, Thor: The Dark World would certainly be the one. He certainly isn’t called the god of mischief for nothing. He...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Every movie franchise, like every revolution, needs a spark to get it going. The Lord of The Rings, Twilight and the phenomenal Harry Potter have all had that world wide mass appeal, making them...
View ArticleMandela: Long Walk to Freedom
It certainly was a long walk for the man. A walk that would cause him to bear unimaginable burdens, suffer deeply personal losses, struggle to maintain his integrity, and endure 27 years in prison,...
View ArticleHer
Everyone, if not most everyone, would admit that our advancements in compute technology has great benefits as well as sour disadvantages. We live in an information age that is totally limitless. Words...
View ArticleUnfriended
Anyone who has been unfriended on any social network (yours’ truly is one) such as Facebook, knows it’s not a very pleasant feeling. Sometimes you really don’t know if the deed was deliberate, or maybe...
View ArticleAvengers Age of Ultron
“There’s only one pathway to peace. Their extinction.” Thus spake Ultron, presenting us with his ultimate solution to true tranquility upon our planet. He is the metallic menace who brings back all the...
View ArticleJurassic World
” Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um, screaming.” Jeff Goldblum’s steadfast mathematician, Dr. Ian Malcolm probably had some of the most iconic lines...
View ArticleMission Impossible Rogue Nation
If a certain majority of movie fans could get over their casual dislike for Tom Cruise, the Mission Impossible franchise would probably make considerably more at the box office. At various times when I...
View ArticleThe Transporter Refueled
Seems reboots are becoming as prolific as sequels in Tinsel Town. If not more. Some, like Terminator Genysis and Star Trek, have managed to over-lap their original predecessors with a radical timeline...
View ArticleThe Visit
It has always been apparent that when M. Night Shyamalan reverts to his dark Sixth Sense/Signs roots, he makes really good movies. The type so engaging and frightening, they make your heart jump. His...
View ArticleBlack Mass
Peabody award winning film maker Joe Berlinger’s high profile documentary, “Whitey: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger”, kicks off with a frightening tale of extortion. South Bostoner,...
View ArticleWar Room
War Room opened in theaters across America on 28 August 2015. As of this writing it is still in theaters and apparently, despite the usual detractors and numerous scathing reviews, the film is...
View ArticleWoodlawn
As with War Room, it’s a bit difficult to be completely objective with a Christian faith based film when you are a believer. Especially when the film just happens to be a true story of faith and not...
View ArticleBridge of Spies
Tensions during the infamous Cold War were always in the red in both the United States and the former Soviet Union. From the early “Baby Boom” 50’s to the early turbulent 60’s, apprehensions of atomic...
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