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Dead or alive, you’re going with him: “RoboCop”
I had the knives out for this one as soon as it was announced. I mean, remake RoboCop? Why? Because the last one was so lacking? It wasn’t a good enough movie? I mean, hey, it’s only become a classic,...
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Milo versus the volcano (guess who wins): “Pompeii”
With some movies you can practically hear the studio pitch whispering in the background, just barely masked by the dialogue. In the case of Pompeii, the new disaster extravaganza by Resident Evil...
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Please remain in your seats with your seat belts fastened until Liam Neeson...
Well, it’s a new year, and you know that means: time for a new movie about Liam Neeson killing people. I don’t know exactly when this became a tradition—I guess sometime around 2009, when we, as a...
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City of Lights (and Glocks): “3 Days to Kill”
This is a toughie. No, not because I’m conflicted about my feelings toward 3 Days to Kill—I pretty much hated it, and at one point was so bored I tried to file my income taxes on my iPhone during the...
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Questioning the Cap: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
In anticipation for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, I am reposting my review of Captain America: The First Avenger published on August 3rd 2011. Well, Captain America finally opened here in...
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More questions for the Cap: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Well, the new Captain America movie opened here in Jakarta this weekend—Captain America: The Winter Soldier—and, like the first one, it was one of the better Marvel standalone movies. Captain America...
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Prehistoric killer-fish want to mate with Australia: “Mega Shark vs. Mecha...
So we come to it at last: the final chapter in the Mega Shark trilogy. It’s been a long, emotionally-wrought journey, as we followed this cartilage-framed anti-hero from the ice of the Arctic ocean...
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In Memory of Bob Hoskins: “The Long Good Friday”
The Long Good Friday begins with Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) swaggering off a Concorde and through Heathrow Airport with the arrogance of a lion inspecting its patch of the Serengeti (or wherever lions...
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Repost: “The Amazing Spider-Man”
[In anticipation of The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Rise of Electro (man, I am NOT looking forward to typing that more than once in a post), here is my review of The Amazing Spider-Man, posted on July...
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Operating on a full charge: “The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro”
If you recall my review of 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man (or if you bothered to read the review I helpfully reposted), you know that I was less than thrilled at that film. Despite better actors in the...
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Hail to the King, baby! “Godzilla”
Well, the summer movie season is upon us in full force with the arrival of a 60 year-old classic movie star, whom movie execs are hoping will set the box office aflame with his radioactive breath (no,...
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The Godzilla we deserved: 1998′s “Godzilla” in Context
Well, the new Godzilla movie has stomped all over the US box office to the tune of 90+ million bucks, but his arrival hasn’t been a smooth one—and I’m not just talking about the property damage....
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Going off the rails: “Snowpiercer”
[Well, it looks like Snowpiercer has finally been released in the US. So, here is a repost of my review from December 13, 2013] If you dislike winter as much as I do—heralding as I do from a place that...
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A look back: “Transformers”
[Since the latest in the Transformers, ah, trilogy? Series? Purgatory? Whatever. The latest Transformers movie just came out, so I figured I'd repost my original reviews...] “Before time began there...
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Another look back: “Transformers: Rise of the Fallen”
[And here we look back at the low point in this franchise--and that's saying something--with the execrable Transformers: Rise of the Fallen.] If you’ve read my review of the first Transformers movie,...
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The (cough) conclusion of the trilogy: “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
[And that brings us to the first not-terrible installment in the franchise, Transformers: Dark of the Moon.] I’m trying to think of some pithy intro here, but, hey, it’s the new Transformers movie. I...
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Michael Bay’s death march of fun continues: “Transformers: Age of Extinction”
Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth installment in Michael Bay’s Transformers trilogy. Mull that over a bit; it makes as much sense as anything else in this movie. And speaking of, okay, I...
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Were they out of Mr. Potato Heads? “Annabelle”
James Wan’s supernatural horror films—Insidious, Insidious Chapter 2, and The Conjuring—are basically the cinematic equivalent of popcorn: reasonably enjoyable as distraction food, but mostly air and...
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Still better than a Malaysian Airlines flight: “7500”
Think about air travel a moment. You’re herded like mentally-retarded cattle, practically get anal-probed by paroled felons in the name of “security,” all for the honor of waiting three hours for your...
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Don’t drink the Kool-Aid (or the Flavor Aid): “The Sacrament”
Ah, The Sacrament. This is a frustrating movie. Frustrating in the way my eighth-teachers were frustrated with me when I’d spend an entire class period drawing a picture of the Blue Thunder helicopter...
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