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The Joker: “Haven’t you heard of the healing power of laughter?” Michael Keaton stars as a stereotypical, overly-generic version of Batman in this early, 1989 work of Tim Burton’s. The Joker, played by Jack Nicholson, is very creepy and well-acted, though not as much as Heat read more

Bottom Line: Shocking and thrilling. Rarely ever disappointing, LIMITLESS is the definitive thriller. Bradley Cooper portrays Eddie Morra, a man who is lured into taking a fictitious drug called NZT for his writer’s block, but as more and more people begin to find about the drug, writer’ read more

Young Victor Creed: “You’re always sick.” Young James Logan: “You were sick when you were my age.” The first prequel to the original three X-MEN movies isn’t notably terrible, but it’s just not all that great. THE LAST STAND was a considerable fall from X-M read more

Daisy: “What are you looking at, Caroline?”Caroline: “The wind, Mom.  They say a hurricane is coming.”Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story of the same title, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON is a long, brilliant, epic fantasy/romance/drama.  It is a life story, wi read more

Well, now.  To say the very least, RAIN MAN is absolutely brilliant.  Dustin Hoffman delivers an fantastic performance as the autistic character Raymond Babbitt, a role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1988.  In fact, Hoffman’s performance is so outstanding that in compari read more

Abomination: “Any last words?”The Incredible Hulk: “Hulk…smash!”THE INCREDIBLE HULK flows (and sometimes even overflows) with action and intensity, which is great, but to tell you the honest truth, there’s nothing really all that incredible about it.  The cinemat read more

AMERICAN GRAFFITI, a teen coming of age drama set in 1962, is certainly not what we would expect from George Lucas, who wrote, produced, and directed sci-fi and action movies such as STAR WARS (to stare the obvious), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THX 1138, LABYRINTH, and HOWARD THE DUCK. On the other ha read more

Bottom Line: Certainly not flawless, but it does a good job of adapting the author’s style to the screen. Based on the book by Kathryn Stockett, THE HELP is a poignant, moving film, peppered with light-hearted humor every now and then to spice up the otherwise sad plot, which ultimately reach read more

Professor Xavier: “You’re here because I need you.” From the start of the flashback in the very beginning of this film, it’s quite easy to tell that it could have worked as a completely stand-alone film. And looking at X-MEN: THE LAST STAND as a singular film of its own, it read more

9-1-1 Operator: “9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” I can say with much truth that PARANORMAL ENTITY does succeed at one thing: mocking PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. In fact, The Asylum mocks the film so well that it looks like an exact copy with everything–the nighttime camera footage, read more

First, let’s get the actors’ flaws out of the way: although Vince Vaughn does look somewhat like Anthony Perkins’ 1960 Norman Bates, Anne Heche has no resemblance at all of Janet Leigh. And they really don’t act all that greatly, either. From just seeing a few scenes of the read more

Professor Xavier: “Mutants.  Since the discovery of their existence, they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred.” To be completely honest, X2: X-MEN UNITED truly is not that much more superior compared to the first X-MEN film, but it is still great. The problem that hold read more

STRANGER THAN FICTION is a brilliant, smart, clever way to break the fourth wall. It is Will Ferrell’s most overlooked comedy, because it seems everyone appreciates TALLADEGA NIGHTS and BLADES OF GLORY.GRADE: A read more

The 1982 adaptation of ANNIE was worse than I expected. It was truly an unfaithful, uneven production, despite the heart and emotion of it all. Once again, as we can see, Hollywood has ruined theater with its terrible transformation of so-called “sung-through musicals” into talkative pr read more

Chevy Chase can do better, but at least FLETCH is not as predictable as I expected it to be. It’s a smart, funny action-comedy that isn’t quite a classic, but it sure is a good, enjoyable laugh-fest. There’s clearly much to love here, especially the scene with the “defensele read more

I first heard the song “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and I liked it, but the movie was much better. That said, ST. ELMO’S FIRE could have easily been titled THE BREAKFAST CLUB: PART II, as it both has similar actors (Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez) and a much similar plotline read more

Bottom Line: Listening to what the critics say is not recommended for this one: they are being overly negative. COWBOYS & ALIENS is surprisingly good. Think SUPER 8 + INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL and add the most recent James Bond in. On the other hand, though there was gr read more