To steal a line from Col. John “Hannibal” Smith: “I love it when a movie comes together, and this movie came together.” “The A-Team” is jam-packed with funny lines, good performances and TONS of action. The movie contains some of the most outrageous and creative action scenes ever seen. And even though some of them […]
In a year of remakes, “The Karate Kid” was one of the biggest at the box office. This new version is more violent than the 1984 classic, with a younger “kid” and without the positive message. Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith) stars as Dre. He’s a 12 year old boy, […]
Talking animal movies have been pretty common in recent years. But this talking animal movie is based on a comic strip character, which is a little different. It’s good ol’ Marmaduke. For a change, Owen Wilson doesn’t play the owner of a dog – instead he does the voice of Marmaduke, who is a teenage […]
In this year of sequels, prequels, movies based on books, TV series, and remakes, thankfully, every once in awhile, we still get a decent original film such as “Just Wright”. Queen Latifah stars as Leslie Wright, a 35 year old who works in a hospital as a physical therapist. And she’s single. Leslie owns her […]
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is based on a video game. The good news is, now that it’s out on DVD, you can hit a button while you’re watching it – the ‘stop’ button. Jake Gyllenhaal, serious actor turned action hero, plays Dastan, a street orphan who is adopted by the king of […]
The first “Shrek” (2001) won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The next two movies in the series together grossed over $1-billion worldwide. “Shrek”, over the past decade, has become a cultural phenomenon, with a TV Christmas special, a Broadway show and tons of merchandice. Sadly, “Shrek Forever After” is the final chapter […]
The story of Robin Hood has been told many times on the big screen, with the likes of Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner and an animated Disney fox playing the title role. There isn’t any “robbing from the rich and giving to the poor” in this latest version, because it’s a “prequel” to the story that […]
The original “Iron Man” was the surprise hit of 2008, making over $315 million. And it re-launched Robert Downey Jr.’s career. Two year’s later Downey returned in “Iron Man 2” and it got the summer of 2010 off to a nice start. The DVD comes 3-ways: Single disk, 2-disk digital copy edition and the 3-disk […]
Over the past two years Brendan Fraser has starred in five family films, some clearly better than others. This one, sadly, may be the worst. In “Furry Vengeance” Fraser plays Dan, a husband and father who works for what’s supposed to be an eco-friendly land development company. Dan moves his family to a small town […]
Last year Disneynature came out with it’s first Earth Day release, “Earth”. This year (as Sebastian from “The Little Mermaid” would say), the studio goes “Under the sea” with “Oceans.” The documentary takes moviegoers all around the world, to our planet’s five oceans, to explore the creatures the live deep in the water and on […]