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Movie Review: ‘Focus’ Starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie

Posted: February 27, 2015 at 12:51 am   /   Local, Movie Reviews, Reviews

Heist movies have been among the more highly revered genres for decades and it seems unlikely that it will stop anytime soon. In most cases, the audience finds themselves rooting for the person(s) committing the often elaborate heist in the hopes that they may get to walk off into the sunset thus granting a payoff […]

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Movie Review: ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ Starring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Taron Egerton

Posted: February 12, 2015 at 10:51 pm   /   Film, Local, Movie Reviews

Double-0-Kickass They say whats old is new again, and in the case of Kingsman: The Secret Service directed by Matthew Vaughn, this statement rings true. Spy-related movies in general have taken a turn toward the more serious and purely dramatic route. Not to say that it is a bad thing, but for some,spy movies usually entail […]

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Movie Review: ‘John Wick’ Starring Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Michael Nyqvist, Bridget Moynahan

Posted: October 24, 2014 at 6:24 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

This time of year tends to be a slow time for the movies.. with summer having ended, and it is not yet that holiday stretch in which big movies pull all the stops for the biggest box office draws. That being said, not all movies that are worth your time have to come during the […]

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Movie Review: ‘Dawn of The Planet of The Apes’ Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman

Posted: July 11, 2014 at 6:34 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

As far as reboots of well established franchises go, Rise of the Planet of the Apes certainly ranked among the ones that was (or is, if you still haven’t seen it) very well worth your time. I certainly wish more sequels would turn out like this one. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes leads off […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx

Posted: May 2, 2014 at 4:42 am   /   Film, Local

For the “spoiler-ific” review, click here. A couple of years ago, a swiftly constructed reboot to the Spider-Man movie franchise came into fruition brought up angst in the idea of repeating an origin story that is still fresh in the minds of movie viewers.  In my review of The Amazing Spider-Man, I had made mention […]

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Movie Review: ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ Starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Redford

Posted: April 4, 2014 at 7:23 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Kicking off this year’s set of superhero movies is none other than Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Serving as the direct sequel (obviously) to Captain America: The First Avenger, and the third movie in the set of phase 2 movies (phase 2 referring to Marvel Studios movies that take place after the Avengers) one is […]

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Movie Review: ‘3 Days to Kill’ Starring Kevin Costner, Hailee Steinfeld, Amber Heard

Posted: February 21, 2014 at 8:09 am   /   Film, Local

Throughout a given year there will be an ample amount of action movies. The categories in which they fall could consist of growing chest hair after watching it (probably a sign you liked it a lot), making a serious effort to rent it after somehow missing it at the theater, it holds your attention (at […]

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Review: ‘Escape Plan’ Starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Posted: October 18, 2013 at 6:02 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Are you looking for a movie with a deeply complex plot that may affect the very way you think? Are you possibly looking for a movie in which the main conflict at hand is resolved with none other than witty banter and or inspirational lines of dialogue? If you were looking for either one of […]

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Review: ‘Baggage Claim’ Starring Paula Patton, Taye Diggs, Adam Brody, Djimon Hounsou

Posted: September 27, 2013 at 7:48 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Over the course of every year, there are a number of romantic comedies that drop. Almost by default, men all over the world tend to have the reflex of rolling their eyes upon even seeing the trailer of said genre of movie. To be fair, there are stand-out movies that happen to be centered on […]

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Preview: ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.’ Should We Say Cowabunga?

Posted: August 21, 2013 at 9:17 am   /   Local, Videogames

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or TMNT, have for almost three decades soared through the various forms of media and clearly have long been ingrained in the likes of popular culture. While starting as a comic book series in the early 80’s, TMNT had a meteoric rise in popularity with the cartoon of the same name […]

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