How appropriate was it that I chose Thursday (Thor’s Day) to check out the thunder god’s addition to the Marvel take over. It was a moderately large crowd which contained I would assume 50% curious fans who loved Iron Man, 40% geeks who love anything comic book, and 10% Thor fans that know more about him than “that dude who is a god”. Natalie Portman...

The Troll Hunter is a Swedish mockumentary by André Øvredal. It has excellent production value, realistic looking creatures and a realistic enough act by the players involved to make it see almost real. Like Blair witch and other movies shot in this fashion, it begins and ends with the claim that the video footage was found and that perhaps someone out there...

“So factually accurate it is as close to a documentary as you can get and still be a drama.” – This is the description of 127 Hours by the real person portrayed in the film Aron Ralston. On the surface 127 Hours appears to be another realistic “what if” that could only fall flat on its face like 2010’s Buried. How could a film be THAT...

Absolutely excellent, everything I expected it to be and the type of movie that I can pop in any time to show fellow Western fans. True Grit takes its namesake seriously as it is a movie about heart, sure the trailers and posters will show the one-eyed Marshall as the focus, but by the end of the movie I saw a whole lot of Grit in all the players involved. The...

This entire review is a spoiler after this paragraph so if you want my feelings on Valhalla Rising, I will state it here and then you can stop reading and go rent it from Netflix or avoid it. Valhalla Rising has beautiful cinematography, absolutely beautiful in a dark, oily, yet lush type of way. Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye is brilliant in his acting, but isn’t...

Tron: Legacy is one of those movies that I am going to call perfect and someone I know will come at me with “how could you call it perfect? It was Matrix with light bikes, the CGI looked weird, they’re raping my childhood, the real grid had more colors than black and white” blah, blah, blah. What really helped me appreciate this movie was seeing the...