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...

What a year huh? It has been a rough one in 2010 having to follow-up on a year that brought us gems such as James Cameron’s Avatar, The Hurt Locker, District 9,  Black Dynamite and the list goes on. One thing that did feel good about the tremendous year that 2009 had was the return of good Sci-Fi to the big screen. This year we had some obvious mistakes...

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...

Brothers is the 2nd War themed movie of 2009 to emphasize the human psyche over guts and glory. Where Mel Gibson’s We Were Soldiers faltered at bringing home the sense of loss and devastation that the wives and mothers endure during wartime, Jim Sheridan nails it by keeping it personal in this film. There are no glorious shootouts, or supermen taking out...

“Remember, remember the 5th of November” It is sometime in the future, the United States is no longer the country it once was, nor is Europe. The tides of war, corruption and disease has led the people of Europe to blindly elect a man to take them away from the misery of Democracy. This supreme leader takes Europe into a period of totalitarian...