Category: Monday Morning Movie Reviewer

Even in the summertime a small independent film with no well known actors and a complete lack of special effects can sneak into theaters, cross your radar, and floor you. A Better Life is one of those movies. It’s not a perfect film but it’s one of the best two or three movies I’ve seen…

The unnecessary sequel is a necessary staple of summertime moviegoing (as I’ve already pointed out in reviews for Pirates 4, Transformers 3, Hangover 2, etc.) but that doesn’t mean you have to like it. No sooner did I waste three hours of my life watching Transformers 3 did I go watch Cars 2, a significantly…

What can you even say about a Transformers movie? “It’s there” is about the nicest thing. Michael Bay is such a special needs director that you feel like giving him a passing grade just for turning in a movie on time (his signature 4th of July slot) and letting him finally graduate so you don’t…

It’s not often a movie is brave enough to put the word “bad” in its title. Rarer still is the one that has an obnoxious advertising campaign, a script that’s short on laughs, and the most unlikable lead character I’ve seen in a movie this year…yet still manages to get me to go against my…

Today brings the latest gritty slice of life drama from Woody NoSnitchin’ Allen, Midnight in Paris. I’m just fucking with you, it’s Woody’s latest slight comedy that doesn’t seem to take place in a world that uses money to pay for anything. All of the characters are well off (even the historical hallucinations Owen Wilson’s…

If you’ve seen any of this movie’s 150 million dollars worth of advertising (the whole thing supposedly cost over 300 million to make and distribute) you know what it’s about. [If you haven’t seen any previews for this movie…what are you doing on this website Amish children?] And maybe that’s the problem. I knew so…

Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t stoop any lower, here comes this movie that blatantly steals an idea. You might be wondering what idea the movie steals, welllllll, I’ll tell you. This movie is a brazen rip off of the popular children’s book Mr. Fletcher’s Pigeons, written by yours truly. I’m so mad I’m calling…

Every summer brings at least one movie that’s not a sequel, prequel, three-quel, or based on a videogame/superhero comic/youtube video. And it’s that one film that has an ounce of mystery that’s usually the best (like Inception last year or Tropic Thunder a couple years back). Not that I have anything against excellent sequels like…

Let’s start this review off by saying X-Men: First Class is completely unnecessary…but it’s also pretty good. What Works: Well first off, the hotness of the cast is completely unexpected as the other X-Men movies usually only had Halle Berry or Dania Ramirez in small roles. January Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, and a scorching Zoe Kravitz…

[Spoilers…but if you’ve seen the first film, this one is already spoiled] You know how every summer is filled with superheroes (Thor, Captain America, The Green Lantern, and X-Men: First Class) and unnecessary sequels (Pirates 4, Trashformers 3, Cars 2, and…well, X-Men: First Class)? Well Hangover II is absolutely unnecessary, more than unnecessary, it’s a…

Man I feel sorry for the big league critics that actually get paid to write reviews and have some expectation people will read them…wait, no I don’t. I’d love to be those guys. However, I will say that every once and a while a movie comes along that is so hard to review, I’m stumped…

I really, really liked this movie. You can try to shame me or make me feel embarrassed that a guy who just turned 25 is still into kid films, but it’s a guilty pleasure, only in my case, there’s not much guilt. What Works: Everything. Seriously, the animation, the fight scenes, the villain, the mysticism…

I have to admit and make fun of me if you want to, but for a PG-13 horror movie, this thing is pretty scary. It’s not bloody or grotesque (at least not for the most part) but from the opening black and white credits you can tell this is a movie that aims to seriously…