John McClane made a worthy run to the Movie Madness Final Four, but he got stopped cold on Friday when he thought that he could take out Batman. I believed that McClane was more than capable of dispatching Batman to the afterlife,...
Easily Woody Allen’s best comedy in ages, ‘Midnight in Paris’ tells the story of Gil (Owen Wilson), a “Hollywood hack who never gave actual literature a shot, until now.” While visiting Paris with his...
As the regular fall-to-spring TV season ends, the summer season begins. This is traditionally a time when the major networks go into reruns and the cable networks try to capture some of the drifting audience. TNT led things off la...
PlayStation fans have been through a lot over the last month or two. Fortunately, the security breach is over, the PlayStation Store is back up, and things have returned to normal. To top it off, Sony has introduced a “Welco...
As the weekend’s only major opener, ‘X-Men: First Class‘ dominated the box office with a $56 million debut. That’s about $3 million above expectations. When you take into account ticket inflation from the p...
Batman did it. James Bond did it. The ‘Star Trek’ crew did it. Even Spider-Man is in the process of doing it right now, and his last movie just came out a few years ago. Hollywood loves reboots. When a franchise gets o...
We’re barreling toward the conclusion of Movie Madness. On Wednesday, Batman took care of Alice pretty easily. Our final round features Batman versus John McClane, and Darth Vader versus Indiana Jones. This quite the epic Fi...
As the only movie opening wide this weekend, the new ‘X-Men’ prequel is almost a sure-fire box office winner. Currently at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes with over 80 reviews, it just might end up being the best-reviewed summe...
Bennett is alive! Well, kind of. He’s in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital and will probably end up dying from the beating old Stan Larsen put on him. In other ‘The Killing’ news, Belko Royce is as nutty as...
‘Beginners’, the latest film from writer/director Mike Mills (‘Thumbsucker’), stars Ewan McGregor as a 38-year-old lonely guy stuck questioning the life he lives and the direction he’s headed. Three e...
For the second time this year, a blockbuster fifth installment to a franchise has become the best of the series. It happened first with ‘Fast Five’, and now with ‘X-Men: First Class’.
‘The Chicago Code’ is one of the most painful cancellations of this now-ending TV season. Although the show never quite reinvented the police drama, as some of the early promotion may have promised, it was a very solid...
