The Losers
A B-minus edition of “The A-Team,” the comic-book adaptation “The Losers” drags you down to its level at gunpoint with its drooling fetishization of weaponry, its focus on Zoe Saldana in wee shorts, various and sundry assassinations designed with gamers in mind, and more rabid mistrust of the U.S. government and its freedom-destroying institutions [...]
Shrek Forever After
Dreamworks seems bored with the ogre who laid the golden egg. “Shrek Forever After,” the fourth film in the lucrative franchise, barely tampers with the Shrek formula (one-liners, flatulence jokes, pop tunes) and not enough to breathe life into the exhausted series.
Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) is feeling buried under the celebrity, [...]
Batman Movie Retrospective
Batman (1966) – Adam West and Burt Ward star in this awesome comic book style, campy ‘60s movie. This film is much like the Batman TV series that was airing at the time and feels like a very long syndicated episode. This movie features all of the best Batman villains: Joker, Riddler, Catwomen [...]
A Nightmare on Elm Street
As someone who owns all eight Freddy Krueger movies, including the good, the bad and the ugly, I was looking forward to the rebooted version of A Nightmare on Elm Street with hesitant anticipation, well aware that while glossy and full of beautiful actors, it would have to get things just [...]