By: Peter J Mellini Although the last few years has been filled with tons of “found footage” style features and most of them implement the same gimmicks, first time feature director Josh Trank has changed the genre with Chronicle. The story is pretty straight forward; three high school students find this weird hole in the ...
By: Peter J Mellini Batman: Year One takes a dark and edger feel then we’ve ever seen in an animated feature. Like the graphic novel by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli that the movie is based on, Batman Year One is Jim Gordon’s story. Bryan Cranston provides the voice of an early in his career ...
By: Hoang Tran Captain America: The First Avenger, directed by Joe Johnston, delivers an old fashioned film that combines touching sincerity with neck breaking excitement. Set appropriately during World War II, the movie centers on Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and his journey from a 90 pound weakling to the world’s first super soldier. It is ...
By: Hoang Tran Transformers: Dark of the Moon (DotM) is a loud, long, obnoxious, and an exhausting film that lacks any real plot, development, or seriousness. However, it delivers an astonishing visual spectacle. Set several years after Revenge of the Fallen, Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is now an adult with adult problems. He has a ...
By: Peter J Mellini Since the first teaser trailer in front of Iron Man 2 I’ve been extremely curious about Super 8. The teaser simply showed a pick up truck driving into a speeding train, derailing it and causing a massive explosion. In the distance we hear a loud banging, the camera pans over to ...
By: Peter J Mellini “Whoever holds this hammer; if he be worthy shall posse the power of THOR!” and that man is actor Chris Hemsworth! I’ll admit, I had my reservations about Thor following up the wildly successful Iron Man franchise. It seemed almost impossible to tell a story about gods who exist in a ...
Link to This Week’s Newsletter (2/20/12)! ALL STAR WESTERN #6 AMERICAN VAMPIRE #24 (MR) AQUAMAN #6 ARCHIE #630 (ARCHIE...
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