Roger Qbert Reviews “The Runaways” Starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning
You know you’re in for a tale of female empowerment when the first frame of the film features menstrual blood. Such is the case with The Runaways, the story of the world’s first all girl rock band [not true, there were several in the 60s]. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Date Night” starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey
Steve Carell and Tina Fey team up to play Phil and Claire Foster in the new movie Date Night. The Fosters are a typical (“typical” for the movies anyway) married, middle-class couple. They have two children and both have successful careers (the parents that is, not the children). However, as is often the case, the […]
The Runaways
Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways is a dark, messed up, and insane dive into the depravity and pitfalls of fame destruction of age film that yields three very good performances from, Michael Shannon, Kristen Stewart, and Dakota Fanning. Before the sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll the members of The Runaways were just young girls that […]
Date Night
“Date Night,” Starring NBC prime-time superstars Steve Carell and Tina Fey is a case of mistaken identity – not only for it’s characters, but for the audience as well. Although full of jokes, and a great comedic cast, there are times that make you wonder about some of the choices. Phil (Steve Carell) and Claire […]
Lost: Season 6 – Episode 6.11 – Happily Ever After – Recap/Review
Desmond is back and we get our second single character episode in three weeks and the results help explain the sideways world and put into motion the final pieces of the final season. The episode opens on the island, a drugged out Desmond awaking from a medically induced comma is dragged to a electromagnetic device […]
Restaurant Review – Pi Pizzeria
When the moon hits your eye like a big-a pizza Pi, that’s 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288. Or, it’s cheesy deliciousness and you should probably wipe it off your face and eat it. All I knew about Pi going in was that it is apparently so good, President Obama himself invited the owner […]
Roger Qbert Reviews CLASH OF THE TITANS (2010)
The original Clash of the Titans is perhaps best-known as (with my apologies to Harry Hamlin’s abs) the last major work of the master of stop-motion animation Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen, though still very much alive, found his services no longer required after the advent of CGI and the rise Industrial Light & Magic. He began […]
Clash of the Titans
Clash of the Titans is a an unoriginal, pretty dumb, sword and sandals epic that looks great, has solid action and effects, with some superb art design/production values and the result is an entertaining and fun flick that I enjoyed even when I was chuckling at the cheesiness. Perseus is the son of Zeus, his […]
Roger Qbert Reviews “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”
Based on a series of popular books by Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid tells the story of Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), a young boy just entering the 6th Grade and self-described “wimpy kid”. Greg is small for his age and desperately concerned with his popularity and physical safety as he ventures into the […]
Lost: Season 6 – Episode 6.10 – The Package – Recap/Review
Jin and Sun are back in their first above average episode in two seasons, Season 4’s flash forward fake out, and the results are fantastic. Over in sideways world we pick up after Jin has been detained at LAX, the 25,000 dollars Customs discovered confiscated, and he has missed his meeting he was sent for. […]