Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“…isn’t much of a story, yet as a vehicle for the monstrosity-minded imagination of writer-director Guillermo del Toro it offers an endless array of bizarre visual riches.
Action/Adventure Rated PG
“There is a fundamental reason why 3-D technology doesn’t work…
Star Edward Norton and director Louis Leterrier make the second attempt to breathe life into what is an uninspired comic-book creation (sorry Hulk fans). The doomed romanticism of the story feels crudely lifted, as it has been, from the King Kong myth and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, while the special effects still aren’t capable of convincing
Action/Adventure Rated R
First Blood has an unflattering reputation, mainly due to its increasingly outlandish sequels. The original picture does get loonier as it goes along, yet for a while it’s actually a mournful and sobering action-movie treatment of postwar stress. Sylvester Stallone created his second iconic character in six years in John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran harassed
“Everyone joking about Harrison Ford’s advanced age seems to be forgetting one thing…”
The original Indiana Jones movie is goofy and adolescent in a good way – the sort of rollicking adventure a gaggle of innocent kids might dream up in their backyard on a summer afternoon. Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas aimed to make an homage to the movie serials of their youth and they
“A blueprint for how a blockbuster sequel should be done.”
“I propose a universal law concerning chimpanzees and the movies…
“A juvenile piece of cultural appropriation, The Forbidden Kingdom doesn’t even have the good manners to focus on the two martial-arts masters.
“One of those occasional Steven Spielberg disasters…”
