Recent Reviews:
Dinner for Schmucks

Jay Roach brings us the next in a long line of Apatow-like, raunch comedies with Dinner for Schmucks. Unfortunately for the audience, Roach doesn’t seem to know how to properly set up a joke or when to stop when the joke isn’t working.
Clash of the Titans [Blu-ray]

In Hollywood’s tradition of remaking 80’s films, Louis Leterrier brings us an up-to-date version of the 80’s action-adventure Clash of the Titans. However, unlike other titles that Hollywood has updated, this one may have been begging for it.
Salt

It’s pretty easy to see why Tom Cruise would shy away from Salt, the latest action spy flick, now starring Angelina Jolie in the title role. The movie relies heavily on spy shticks and tropes that have made up a lot of Cruise’s previous endeavors, something Jolie doesn’t have to worry about.
Inception

For years we’ve been giving Pixar credit for being one of the most consistent entities when it comes to quality filmmaking. While the animation studio continues that trend this summer, so does another force in quality storytelling: Christopher Nolan.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Well, it’s taken until almost halfway through July, but the popcorn corniness of the summer movie season has finally arrived. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice brings spectacle over substance and a story riddled with plot holes and convenience, but ultimately is the kind of movie that’s perfect for shutting off your brain and just being entertained.
Predators

For the longest time, it appeared the Predator franchise was a one-trick pony. While the original 1987 film was fantastic sci-fi action fun, the 1990 sequel was less so (let’s be honest - Danny Glover was a poor trade-out for Arnold), and the AvP movies have been an outright disaster.
Despicable Me

Despicable Me takes a different spin on the normal animated tale, following the villain of the movie instead of any sort of hero. In this case, the villain is Gru, a Bond-style, European-accented hunchback of a man. Gru finds himself unseated as the top villain by a new interloper, Vector.
Grown Ups

Heartfelt and sentimental are not two words used to describe Adam Sandler’s nitch in comedy, although that is what he is shooting for in his new movie Grown Ups. Along for the ride are fellow SNL alums Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. Add on Kevin James to play the fat guy and Selma Hayek as the stunning wife and you have a star studded cast.
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country [DVD]

In this original, inspiring, and truly remarkable docu-drama, we are witness to the rebirth of a revolution in the Asian country of Burma. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country follows Joshua, a video journalist in a country that forbids freedom of the press.
Adopted [DVD]

Hey, remember Son In Law? Yeah, me neither.

Neither do the citizens of Johannesburg, South Africa, who allowed actor/comedian Pauly Shore into their city for a few short days to shoot Adopted, Shore’s tongue-in-cheek attempt at following the celebrity trend of adopting orphaned African children.
The A-Team

I don’t know that there’s been an overwhelming desire for the 1980s television series The A-Team to have a big screen adaptation. Looking at old shows that would be ripe for adaptation, the series that made Mr. T a star does seem like a natural fit, with the potential for crazy action sequences and a quantity of explosions that would make Michael Bay envious.
Get Him to the Greek

The one thing that separates a good raunch comedy from the many, many bad ones is heart. There needs to be a heart-felt bond created between one or more of the main characters and the audience so that you are not just stringing along the actors between one testicle joke to another. This is where Get Him to the Greek succeeds.

Killers

I wish I could understand the rationalization behind making Killers. Somewhere, someone decided to make a movie along the lines of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, True Lies, and Bird on a Wire, only with comedic actors playing the roles instead of more action-oriented ones.
Splice

About twenty minutes into Splice, I could hear Dr.
The Road [DVD Review]

Based on the Cormac McCarthy Pulitzer prize winning novel of the same name, the film The Road takes the picture McCarthy painted and puts the characters in motion. Clearly respectful of the original work in making our world look desolated and void of life, The Road challenges the audience to look certain death in the eye and still find a reason to live.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Video game adaptations have been unstable territory for film since their inception. The reasons are numerous, whether it be questionable people at the helm (Uwe Boll) or a more core issue of adapting a game that doesn’t have much more going for it than a character jumping from platform to platform (Super Mario Brothers).
Sex and the City 2

Carrie and the girls are back in Sex and the City 2 as the trials and tribulations of these fashion and relationship obsessed women continue on in New York City and spread to the rest of the world. With the homely married life of Carrie and Big settling in after two years, Carrie wants to find the spark again while Big wants to find the remote.
Valentine's Day [Blu-ray]

Valentine’s Day: the much maligned holiday started by the greeting card companies; an occasion for candy, jewelry, and floral retailers to line their pockets with this manipulative ploy for commercial gain. Right? Well, maybe, sort of. But to be fair (and sentimental), Valentine’s Day is an occasion to celebrate those close relationships that are so valuable to us.
MacGruber

MacGruber is the latest recurring character from Saturday Night Live to jump from late night to the big screen. In the skit we find a MacGuyver-look-a-like who is always just seconds away from death but able to throw a quick one liner before the bomb goes off. One would think that would be difficult to translate into a 99-minute movie but surprisingly Will Forte pulls it off.
Robin Hood

Taking place in 1199 AD, the new Robin Hood is set as soldiers are coming away from the Crusades, where murdering and plundering have become a way of life for King Richard and his men, who are working their way back to England bankrupt and exhausted.