2011 Oscar Predictions

With the Oscars only a couple days away, everyone from Rodger Ebert to any random person with a YouTube account is flooding the internet with predictions on who will take home those naked golden men Sunday night. While you have probably read or watched a million different predictions already, I figured it couldn’t hurt to [...]

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Piranha 3D Review

“Piranha 3D” is a hyper-exaggerated satire of “blood in the water” films that depends heavily on its audience being in on the joke. Unlike the many utterly idiotic spoof movies that followed “Scary Movie,” (“Date Movie,” “Epic Movie,” “Vampires Suck,” etc) “Piranha 3D” has enough humor, a fairly talented cast, and enough bite to be a [...]

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Flash Movie Review: Dead Snow

“Dead Snow” should have been called “Zombie Nazis” because that is really all it offers. It could have been a good cult classic like “Evil Dead” with its promising zombie premise and playful undertones, but instead it got too caught up in insipid spoofing, formulaic storytelling, and bland characters. Every good zombie movie offers a [...]

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Review: Clash of the Titans (2010)

I feel as though I should preface this review by stating a mildly embarrassing fact. I am a geek for Greek mythology. While all my friends dressed up their Barbies in trendy 80’s fashion, I dressed mine in togas I fashioned out of toilet paper. I named them after my favorite Greek Gods and Goddesses and [...]

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Alice in Burtonland

Loosely based on Lewis Caroll’s novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Disney’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland re-imagines Alice’s adventure and gives the classic tale the Tim Burton treatment: landscapes are stamped with Burton’s trademark Gothicism, the characters are quirky and often grotesquely exaggerated, and the story focuses on misunderstood outcasts and split [...]

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Evolution of Medusa

Clash of the Titans (1981) was special effects guru Ray Harryhausen’s last main feature film and tells the story of Perseus, son of Zeus, in his quest to save Andromeda from being sacrificed to the mighty Kraken. Though it may be dated by today’s technological advancements in movie magic, Harryhausen brings many mythological creatures and [...]

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Every time I see the vapid Kristen Bell and the equally uninspiring Josh Duhamel promoting their monotonous attempt at a romantic comedy “When In Rome,” I feel like peeling my forehead down and sewing it over my eyes.

Bell and Duhamel are the epitome of the predictable Barbie and Ken stand-in actors with no discernable acting talent and very little comedic flare. I can’t get through one TV show without seeing a promo for the film during a commercial break with the two of them being all cutesy-pootsey, pretending to have the slightest [...]

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