Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Terence Howard, Shaun Toub and Jeff Bridges. PG-13, 126 minutes. Tony Stark is larger than life. A genius billionaire/weapons manufacturer, he’s one of those people who can make headlines just by going about his daily routine. He doesn’t seem to take anything too seriously, either….
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Starring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Watkin Tudor Jones, Yolandi Visser, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver. R, 120 minutes. Chappie highlights so much of what can go wrong with contemporary science fiction. It’s a simultaneous source of wonder and disappointment that there’s…
Directed by Jose Padhilla. Starring Joel Kinneman, Gary Oldman, Abbie Cornish, Michael Keaton, Michael K. Williams, Jackie Earle Haley and Samuel L. Jackson. PG-13, 118 minutes. I avoided this movie like the plague when it hit theaters early last year. I had a learned a very valuable lesson after the Total Recall remake, being you…
Directed by Marc Webb. Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and James Pinkner. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Embeth Davidtz, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore with Sally Field and Chris Cooper. PG-13, 142 minutes. The first Amazing Spider-Man was a serviceable, if not at all remarkable, adventure that set things…
Written & Directed by The Wachowskis. Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglass Booth and Tuppence Middleton. PG-13, 127 minutes. Undocumented immigrant Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) begins the movie scrubbing toilets for the upper crust in Chicago. She wakes up every morning with a half-hearted “I hate my life” before she puts…
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Written by Steven E. de Souza. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Mick Fleetwood and Jesse Ventura. R, 101 minutes. The basic premise behind The Running Man was nothing new to audiences even when it was released. Those at all familiar with the science fiction genre…
Welcome back to Hobbit Week! Since yesterday and the day before, our beloved N. Demmy has been reviewing Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, telling you what he thought of it, if it was any good, etc. We hope you enjoy his final review today as he brings an end to his journey there and back again. Get…
Welcome to Hobbit Week! Since yesterday, and over the course of the next two days, our beloved N. Demmy is going to be reviewing Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, telling you what he thinks of it, if it’s any good, etc. We hope you enjoy this review and the final one tomorrow! Get ready, ’cause we’re going…
Welcome to Hobbit Week! Over the course of the next three days, along with your regular dose of sci-fi and fantasy news and entertainment, our beloved N. Demmy is going to be reviewing Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, telling you what he thinks of it, if it’s any good, etc. We hope you enjoy this review and…
Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Tom Noonan. R, 116 minutes. SPOILERS AHEAD… RoboCop 2 uses similar clips of news coverage and satirically charged commercials to position us back in the corporate-run, crime-ridden Detroit of the near future, but from the very start something feels off. The original film masterfully towed…
Directed by Michael Mann. Written by Morgan David Foehl. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Wang Leehom, Viola Davis and Yorick van Wageningen. R, 133 minutes. A view of the Earth as sketchily connected lines, instead of water and landmass, begins Michael Mann’s new cyber thriller. This stark image precedes the action, which involves the potential…
Written and Directed by The Spierig Brothers. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook and Noah Taylor. R, 98 minutes. Predestination opens by committing something of a cardinal sin, with its star giving us potentially hackneyed voiceover narration. This usually lazy move is later revealed to be something completely different and, admittedly, simply brilliant. It’s the best…
