Brave New World (1980)

Brave New World (1980)

Imagine a world absent the need for free will where happiness is just a soma away, you take a pill to overcome sadness, a pill to make yourself sleepy and a pill to keep things perfect. A world that not only encourages sex with multiple partners but mandates it – several times a day in fact. There is no family, there is only perfection. Babies are...

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

Forget that other trilogy (with the exception of the fabulous second one) X-Men: First Class has placed itself as the de facto live action translation of the comic book series that we all know of. The writing will blow you away, the characters are true to form, and the production value is splendid especially the frame for frame comparisons of Magneto’s...

I Am Number Four

I Am Number Four

I Am Number Four is an odd choice to make Box Office. The production value, score and special effects seemed more geared towards NBC, FOX or TNT television and the High School in a small town backdrop never seems to do well in major releases. There has always been a problem with the Sci-Fi genre releasing a bunch of turds after every successful nugget. Well...

The King of Fighters (2010)

The King of Fighters (2010)

The King of Fighters is another one of these video game movies where the writers lazily use the “other world” excuse to bring us the environments and worlds that we recall from the video game. In KOF (King of Fighters) the participants in the tournament are given ear pieces which can teleport them to another dimension to fight within an arena of the...

TRON: Legacy

TRON: Legacy

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...

Metropolis by Fritz Lang

Metropolis by Fritz Lang

As an owner of the original 1927 Metropolis DVD by Fritz Lang, it never dawned on me that what I was viewing was only a portion of the man’s creation. Although it flowed well, it was hard to get my Spike TV buddies to sit down and look at the mother of Science Cinema. Recently while perusing my Netflix queue I saw a movie with the title Metropolis Restored...