July 25th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
It has been over six years since the popular and groundbreaking series, “The X-Files” went off the air leaving some of the series biggest questions unresolved. There was always talk that future films would resolve the alien conspiracy and invasion plotline that fueled the nine seasons of the show, but […]
July 18th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Riding a wave a fan expectations and anticipation as well as surrounding by the tragic death of Heath Ledger, the latest installment in Writer/Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman Series, “The Dark Knight”, has arrived. Christian Bale once again stars in the dual role of troubled billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne and the masked avenger Batman, as […]
July 12th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Remember those flimsy cardboard glasses with the blue and red cellophane that were supposed to help us watch movies “come alive” in 3-D? They never worked for me. Maybe it was my prescription glasses, and the fact that the paper lenses never fit quite right? My first experience with 3D glasses before this […]
July 11th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Hollywood is often littered with decisions that in hindsight seem to be utterly insane. For all of the big budgeted films that go on to do huge business, there are films such as “Waterworld”, “Howard The Duck”, “Hudson Hawk”, and countless others that make you scratch your head and wonder who thought […]
July 1st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Throughout the annals of cinema, the big screen has been home to some of the most larger-than-life heroes ever to spring from the pages of comic books. Recent adaptations of Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman, all went on to box office gold and with several more character adaptations in the works, there seems to […]
June 27th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Wesley Gibson (James Mc Avoy) is a man with issues. He toils away in his office cubicle taking countless amounts of grief from his boss and lamenting the fact that he has gone nowhere with his life. As if this was not bad enough, his best friend is having an affair with his girlfriend, […]
June 27th, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
By Gen
To be honest, I didn’t put much faith in a movie about a robot who could only say, “Wa-AA-lleee….” Especially one that’s been by himself for 700 years. Then again, the last Pixar release of talking machines wasn’t exactly a stellar production, either. Give me talking rats or talking fish, at […]
June 22nd, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
The summer 0f 2008 movie season kicks off in a big way with the release of “Iron Man”, the latest in a long line of popular Marvel Comics superheroes to make the leap to the big screen.
Robert Downey JR. stars as Tony Stark a Billionaire […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
In the time-honored Hollywood tradition of remaking the past, comedian Bill Cosby has at long last seen his standup and cartoon character Fat Albert arrive on the big screen.
In the live action version of the classic series which ran in the 70’s Fat Albert (Kenyan Thompson), is once again playing with his friends in […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
The classic siege of the Alamo comes to the big screen yet again this time with a mega-budget in “The Alamo”. The film stars Dennis Quaid as Sam Houston and Billy Bob Thornton as Congressman Davie Crockett and chronicles the events that would forever etch the name Alamo into American lore.
While many people know of […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
By Genevieve Mc Bride
There are a few different messages one could contemplate after watching “Pursuit of Happyness” (misspelling intentional, and explained in the movie). It could be taken as an ode to the me-generation extremes of the 80s, a nod to the idea that money just might buy happiness or a salute to the dogged […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) is not a man to back away from a challenge. So when greedy real estate developer Willie Bank (Al Pacino), cheats Danny’s friend Reuben(Elliot Gould), in a major business deal which leaves Rueben incapacitated, there is only one thing he can do, seek revenge.
Danny gathers his gang from his last […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Since audiences last visited the crime busting quartet, the group has become media darlings, and the impending wedding of two of the team members, Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), and Sue Storm (Jessica Alba), has become media frenzy.
As plans for the wedding move forward, and Sue is confident that the wedding will not be postponed […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
For writer Mike Enslin (John Cusack), ghosts and the supernatural are simply myths people use to bolster the local economy with tourism dollars. Mike has made a career of evaluating and debunking so called haunted inns, hotels, graveyards, and locales all over the nation.
While his books do well enough for his editors to be […]
June 21st, 2008 by gareth | No Comments
Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is a man who is going places. When last we saw Evan in “Bruce Almighty”, he was playing the foil to Jim Carrey and having one of the most spectacular on air meltdowns ever recorded.
In the new film “Evan Almighty”, Evan has left his job as a Buffalo anchorman to […]