‘Ted 2’ Review: More of the Same (For Better or Worse
The simplest way to describe ‘Ted 2’ is something along the lines of, “It is what it is.” If you liked the first ‘Ted‘ (or any of Seth MacFarlane’s crude comedy output), you’ll proba...
The simplest way to describe ‘Ted 2’ is something along the lines of, “It is what it is.” If you liked the first ‘Ted‘ (or any of Seth MacFarlane’s crude comedy output), you’ll proba...
It’s amazing how a few decades can change standards in moviegoing. In 1993, simply seeing Steven Spielberg throw credible dinosaurs up on the big screen qualified as an unprecedented success of cinematic spectacle. These day...
When ‘Insidious’ was released five years ago, it felt like a bit of a breath of fresh air in the horror genre that avoided graphic torture porn excess and Found-Footage sloppiness trends for a more classically construc...
‘Pitch Perfect’ was a little comedy that could. It arrived with no expectations, performed better than anticipated, and then gradually built up a cult audience of fans who couldn’t believe they were watching the ...
Until I was actually sitting in a theater watching ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, I wasn’t entirely convinced that it had actually been made. Sure, I’d seen the trailers, but after years of false starts the promise ...
Two years ago, I found myself in the sights of James Bond fans everywhere. While ‘Skyfall’ was becoming the highest-grossing entry in the long-running 007 franchise, I scratched my head wondering how something so obvio...
It seems like every movie Hollywood makes these days has to be part of an epic multi-part franchise of endless sequels and prequels and reboots. As home theater fans, what movie franchises do you feel compelled to collect in their...
The biggest problem with ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ is simply that no movie could have possibly lived up to its expectations. 2012’s ‘The Avengers’ had the advantage of being the first movie to combine...
A parody movie mocking the ‘Fast and Furious’ series is on the way shortly, but can you help wondering why? There’s no way any parody could possibly be as absurd and hilarious as ‘Furious 7’. This lat...
On a certain level, it makes sense that the explosion of Young Adult movie adaptations would follow a similar redundant track that YA novels always have. Anytime a YA novel hits, the Scholastic book order forms for a generation of...
I can’t believe that the absolutely abysmal ‘Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ made enough money to justify the production of a sequel. The elderly all-stars return for another round of mildly racist pandering and a fr...
Neill Blomkamp, director of the excellent ‘District 9‘, the terrible ‘Elysium‘, and this week’s still-to-be-determined ‘Chappie’, wants to make an ‘Alien’ sequel. More specific...