Category: Monday Morning Movie Reviewer

This completely unnecessary sequel—-that shouldn’t actually be a sequel as it doesn’t tie into “Journey to the Center of the Earth” in any real way and the people I saw this movie with didn’t know it was a sequel even after we’d watched the whole thing—-stars The Rock and Vanessa Hudgins and is in 3D…

Although the first four reviews were all centered around strong women (although only Haywire showcased a convincing one) then this movie is strictly for the men as I feel there is a real gender divide in those who will enjoy this under-valued film about a dirty cop on the downward spiral. That isn’t to say…

Completing our trend of reviewing movies starring tough women (the bouncy bounty hunter in One For the Money, the robotic vampire in Underworld, and the ultimate bitch in The Woman in Black) is Haywire, the feature film debut of former MMA star Gina Carano. In it she plays a double crossed private security contractor out…

This haunted house movie starring Daniel Radcliffe is well-made but I just really didn’t go for it. I guess I’m just a little worn out by this type of thing but I will say there are many worse ways you could spend your money this month. What Works: The movie has an eerie, relentlessly creepy…

Bloody but bloodless wannabe video game. What Works: What Doesn’t: No really, nothing. What I Would Have Done Differently: lol

Very Bad What Works: Nothing. What Doesn’t: Everything. What I Would Change: lol

Today brings a mini-trend as this film (like Paradise Lost 3) is also a documentary that got an extremely limited theatrical release, but people should catch up with it at home. If a Tree Falls is about the “eco-terrorist” group the E.L.F. or Earth Liberation Front, as it follows a couple of the members who…

I can practically hear some of the people reading that headline. “What is this movie and when did it come out?” “And how is there three of them when I’ve never heard of the first two?” This riveting documentary didn’t technically get a theatrical release and is actually part of a trilogy of docs HBO…

I know this movie technically came out last year and if people haven’t watched it by now they probably won’t, but still it’s nominated for a few Oscars and might even win one (but won’t) so why not review it? This movie is about a boy with autism who loses his father (Tom Hanks) in…

I was downright shocked at how much I liked this movie and especially considering that almost all of the audience I saw it with hated it. But most likely the same things they didn’t like were the same things I did like: the willingness to keep us off our toes, the realism, the refusal to…

This weekend I had the pleasure of watching another critically acclaimed independent movie that was the exact opposite of Albert Nobbs. Miss Bala is thrilling, ferocious, alive, and speaks to today in a way that few Hollywood movies even attempt to. While the Oscars pathetically role around in past nostalgia for bygone eras with nominees…

I figured since this movie was nominated for a few Oscars, I might as well see it. To be honest, I probably didn’t need to in order to tell exactly what it would be and I wish I wouldn’t have spent the two hours. What Works: Well…uhhh…Janet McTeer and Glenn Close have both been nominated…

This movie is stupid as hell. It has a few sequences that are pretty neat but if you go see this, you might as well take 10 bucks and flush it down the toilet, and then forget you did that because you also won’t remember this movie the next day. Watch Mission Impossible 4 instead…