Easily one of my favorite War dramas, or hell for that matter throw in “Romance Drama”, the story of Mulan in this 2009 version blew me away with the raw emotion that it provoked. Vicki Zhao Wei’s portrayal of the legendary warrior is flawless and commendable. While the source material is a poem that has been speculated on and claimed by different people,...

­­ While the story of Conan The Barbarian in this Marcus Nispel version cannot hold a candle to the John Milius original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, it doesn’t mean that on its own it isn’t a good movie. The problem with rehashing anything is the inevitable and misleading comparisons that are done whenever critique is asked. That being said I should...

In a time when the alpha male action hero is pretty much extinct, Jason Statham has taken up the mantle and is holding it up on his shoulders and doing one helluva job. While many people will ignore The Mechanic thinking that it will be yet another Transporter or Crank it is more along the lines of a Bourne Identity, Salt type of movie. There are no twists...

If you see one movie from 2010 it 100% needs to be Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky who brought us the brilliance that is The Wrestler delves into the mind of the beautiful Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) in this wonderful piece of cinema. The movie was literally a one woman show driven by Portman, sure Mila Kunis was great and a welcome comedy relief at times to...

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...

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...