“I’m still excited about the potential of District 9. The problem is, I’ve already seen it.

Like most of the other screen adaptations of the fantasy series by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is an unwieldy thing, with too much wizardry for its running time. Yet also like its predecessors, this sixth installment has stunning production design and a strong cast, both of which make up for its

“Fans will be thrilled, though not nearly as much as Paramount Pictures shareholders.

“If you’re lucky – and this is rare – you can figure out which robots are fighting and, eventually, who won.

“Did it really take William Shatner in the director’s chair to finally give us a decent Star Trek movie?

“Star Trek finally gets imaginative, exciting and – dare I say it? – kinky.

“It’s back to boring basics for the Gene Roddenberry franchise…

“At this point, looking to juice the series with action scenes is the equivalent of applying a defibrillator to a cadaver.

The filmmakers behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine want their movie to be dark – partly as an artistic choice but mainly, I think, out of financial envy over the billion-dollar gross of the aptly titled Batman installment, The Dark Knight. And so the movie – which tells the background story of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the X-Men