Watch the 10 Best Musical Muppets Moments (Video)
The Muppets began life as a variety show and, as such, music has always played a large role in their existence. Whether it was original songs or them reinterpreting existing material, they always brought something fresh and different to the proceedings. Here now, are The Muppets 10 Best Musical Moments. Oh, and just to make […]
“Footloose” Remake Review Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid
Footloose, opens much like the original – with kids in a small town dancing to the musical strains of Kenny Loggins. How small is this town, you ask? It’s so small that the kids who live there still dance to Kenny Loggins. Honest to God…Kenny Loggins. When tragedy strikes after one of their adult-contemporary inspired […]
Review: ‘Moneyball’ Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Easily one of the strongest films so far this year, Moneyball tells the story (based on actual events) of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), General Manager of the perennially underfunded Oakland A’s. When Beane finds his team poached of its best players at the end of the 2001 season, he decides to take a radically different […]
Review: ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford
It’s a simple, and admittedly awesome, premise. Aliens invade the old west. Perfect in its simplicity. You had me at…well, “Aliens invade the old west.” But then you tell me that Han Solo and James Bond will play the cowboys? Well, that’s just flat out genius now, isn’t it? However, Cowboys & Aliens, it turns […]
Movie Review: Chris Evans is ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’
Marvel wraps up its long and winding road towards The Avengers with Captain America: The First Avenger. The subtitle is apt (though bit of a cynical hedge against foreign markets) since Captain America is the leader (and heart) of the team. Set in 1943, Steve Rogers is the quintessential 90-pound weakling when he is selected […]
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Stars Shia LaBeouf, Loses Megan Fox
Based on a line of toys/cartoon in the ‘80s: Autobots = good robots, Decepticons = bad robots. Ok, now you’re all caught up. Let me assure you, nothing strikes fear in the heart of a film critic more than the phrase “In Association with Hasbro.” And after Transformers (boring) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen […]
Review: Disney-Pixar’s ‘Cars 2’ Starring Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Michael Caine
As a child I was a constant source of academic disappointment to my parents; a perennial underachiever. I didn’t get bad grades, mind you. I was solid B-student. Sure, I could have gotten an “A” with a modicum of effort but if I could pull a “B” (or the occasional “C”) with little to no […]
Review: “Green Lantern” Starring Ryan Reynolds, Peter Sarsgaard, Blake Lively
The summer of the superhero continues as Green Lantern…blasts? Flies? Ummmm…what is it exactly Green Lantern does again? Of all the comic book characters, Green Lantern is probably one that people know the best while actually knowing very little about. So let’s catch you up. Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is a hot shot test pilot […]
Review: “Super 8” Starring Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning
J.J. Abrams (the man who brought you Lost) and Steven Spielberg (the man who brought you your childhood) team up for Super 8. Shrouded in great secrecy until just a few weeks before its release, the film is set in 1979 and follows a group of middle-school kids who are burgeoning filmmakers. After witnessing a […]
Review: “X-Men First Class” Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender
X-Men gets the reboot/prequel treatment in X-Men: First Class. What could have been a phone-in FX-fest is instead the best comic book film since The Dark Knight and the strongest Marvel film since Spider-Man 2. (And that’s far from a backhanded compliment in light of Marvel Comics track record over the last decade.) X-Men: First Class is everything a summer blockbuster should be: […]
