‘From Paris With Love’ Movie Review: Nothing To Write Home About

A string of bad movies ranging from slightly below averaged to terrible….Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I heard someone ask what John Travolta has done since the movie world dubbed him the comeback kid after his Oscar nominated performance in Pulp Fiction almost 16 years ago. Yes, we did have our hopes up for Travolta but in between now and then his biggest claims to fame have been the “so bad it’s good” Face/Off and what is widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever made Battlefield Earth. Because of that poor track record it shouldn’t surprise you when I say From Paris with Love is not a good movie but what might surprise you is this one is not Travolta’s fault, in fact his performance might be the best thing in this debacle.

‘Frozen’ Movie Review: 101 Reasons Not To Go Skiing

I don’t get these young kids today. When I was growing up all you needed was a big dude in a mask impaling recently deflowered teenagers to terrify me but in 2010 I guess you need things to be a bit more believable. Writer/director Adam Green uses the elements as the basis to tourcher the college kids in his movie Frozen. Unfortunately, his clever concept is held back by terrible dialog and woefully lacking performances from his cast.

New Digital Video Disc Reviews: Zombieland / The House of the Devil / Amelia

Zombieland

Question: At this point what could yet another zombie movie bring to a genre that is already bloated beyond belief with video games, comic books and a shit ton of movies? The answer is nothing, Zombieland is a great movie for what it removes from the genre and what it removes is all seriousness.

‘Edge Of Darkness’ Movie Review: Don’t Fuck With Mel Gibson

When will the bad guys learn to stop fucking with Mel Gibson? In 1979 that biker gang killed his family, in 1987 a different set of bad dudes killed his wife, in the 1996 those awful men kidnapped his son and then in 1999 those mobsters stole his 140,000 …70,000 dollars. In every instance Gibson got his revenge by unleashing unmeasured amounts of pain on the wrong doers. Yet despite Gibson’s track record the bad guys still haven’t learned their lesson and this time they’ve gone and killed his daughter. The result is a movie that covers very familiar territory but who says that has to be a bad thing.

New Digital Video Disc Reviews: Whip It / Surrogates / Soul Power / I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell

Whip It

Lets face it folks the only thing we as a country like more then roller derby is Drew Barrymore so it was only a matter of time before the geniuses over in Hollywood put those two things together. Barrymore makes her directorial debut in this cliche filled coming of age story that has every right to be awful but isn’t.

New Digital Video Disc Reviews: The Invention of Lying / Gamer

The Invention of Lying

I happen to think Ricky Gervais is one of the funniest people on the planet. The original UK version of The Office is in my opinion one of the funniest TV shows of the past decade and far superior to the American version of the show(which I also find somewhat funny). But Gervais has yet to find true main stream success in the theaters, his first attempt Ghost Town was a reasonably funny rom-com but lacks the uniqueness of Gervais voice because the script was not written by him. In steps The Invention of Lying

‘The Book of Eli’ Movie Review: The Path of the Righteous Man…

It’s been much too long since we’ve seen something from the Hughes brothers and even longer since we’ve seen someone hack into a crowd of men with a machete guided by nothing more than the glory of God. This movie takes big chances and I have a feeling whether or not there’s a big reward will be one of the biggest film geek debates of 2010.

‘The Lovely Bones’ Movie Review: Rape, Murder and Magic

Some may have thought it odd that Mr. Lord of the Rings/King Kong chose such a small scale thriller for his next project but most film geeks will tell you one of Peter Jackson first great projects was the small thriller Heavenly Creatures. I thought it would be great to see Jackson returning to his roots but unfortunately it seems years of making big budget “ten pole” films have caused the director  to lose his sense of subtly and tone.

Daybreakers Movie Review: What Happened to all the Shirtless Hunks?

January is usually the studio dumping ground for everything they thought was a good idea at first but turned out to be shit in the end but 2010 could be different with the promising looking Book of Eli and Mel Gibson’s comeback Edge of Darkness both slated for early year releases this January could have great potential and if Daybreakers in any indication it does. I know, I know YET ANOTHER vampire film! After all the Twilight madness and the success of HBO’s True Blood not to mention the countless copycat properties I can understand the trepidation to set down for 98 more minutes people biting into each other but trust me Daybreakers is worth your time.