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...

Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch was Alice in Wonderland on a landscape of CGI goodness. Judging from the trailers I always us assume that this would be another visual masterpiece similar to that of 300, Sin City, and the other graphic novels turned movies from the past. Emily Browning stars as Baby Doll our Alice in this tale of mental illness delusions and...

The Mechanic (2011)

The Mechanic (2011)

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...

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...

127 Hours

127 Hours

“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...

The Rite (2011)

The Rite (2011)

The Rite combines top notch production and cinematography with a familiar theme that has been all but played out in modern cinema. The theme is that of the Roman Catholic church and exorcism. Before writing this one off for daring to go there yet again, I will say that The Rite steps above the rest with two shining positives, these being the writing and of...