Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Summer 2010 started off with a bang two weeks ago with Iron Man 2 smashing its way onto the silver screen, and this Memorial D...
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Shrek Forever After
The fourth, and at this point, I would hope the final chapter in the Shrek saga gives us Shrek Forever After. Shrek is the CGI Ogre from Dreamworks who originally made fun of the Disney franchises and...
Prison Break: Season One
Prison Break is a fairly straightforward idea: an innocent man is imprisoned due to a large and unlikely political conspiracy and sentenced to die. His brother, a genius structural engineer,...
Robin Hood
This latest adaptation of Robin Hood is quite careful in the way in which it connects itself to the traditional legend. The dénouement serves as a sort of origin story for the Ro...
Valentine's Day
I have a weakness for the cross-genre "interconnecting vignettes" conceit that crops up from time to time in movies. I count Love, Actually among my favorite romcoms, and...
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 was a bit of a hard sell. I very much liked the first one, but what I liked about it was the general sense of joy that Downey brought to the role. In Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony...
Edge of Darkness
In the beginning she appears in one of those sorts of home movies that you know no real parent ever takes of their children. It is the sort of Hollywood home movie that depicts a pure frivolity...
The Blind Side
Hollywood was literally hit in its "blind side" when the unassuming, rags to riches sports story "The Blind Side" was released in fall of 2009. A powerhouse, Oscar worthy performan...
Tooth Fairy
The former wrestlers, The Rock, now known as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is back this year staring in the family comedy, The Tooth Fairy, by 20th Century Fox. Dwayne Johnson stars as D...
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger. Is a killer. Who kills people in their dreams. With knives attached to his fingers. I apologize if I am spoiling the surprise for anyone, but I think it's impo...