Tag: Studio Films Review

Lucy | Review

In the Sky With Diamonds: Besson’s Latest a Crock of Crack-pot Sci-Fi It’s rather a shame to report that Luc Besson’s latest directorial effort, Lucy,...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Review

Monkey Trouble: Reeves Get a Crack at Famed Cinematic Simian Franchise It’s kind of wild to think how much cinematic mileage (now eight films and...

Tammy | Review

Tammy Girl: Falcone’s Debut a Tepid Turkey Rex Reed might have been better served to save his wayward disparagements about the cinematic talents of Melissa...

Jersey Boys | Review

Jersey Show: Eastwood Plays It Safe with Broadway Adaptation While it earns a great deal of credibility due to the retention of several notable cast...

Edge of Tomorrow | Review

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Liman’s Simple Sci-Fi is Lean Entertainment Considerable praise is in order for director Doug Liman and a trio of screenwriters...

The Fault in Our Stars | Review

Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Boone’s Adaptation Jerks Your Tears Director Josh Boone adapts John Green’s popular 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars...

Maleficent | Review

Moralificent: Stromberg’s Debut Gets a Dastard Disney Straitjacket Anticipation has been extremely high for Disney’s live action dedication to one of their most enjoyably memorable...

Chef | Review

Mostly Favreau: Actor/Director’s Return to Indie Scene a Pleasant Surprise A thinly veiled allegory for Jon Favreau’s own career, whether he consciously means it to...

The Other Woman | Review

Birds of a Feather: Cassavetes’ Brings Generic Chops to Predictable Comedy Long before the inevitable denouement of the vainglorious adulterer catalyzing the female frenzied revenge...

Transcendence | Review

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: Pfister’s Debut Oversteps Limited Reach Hopes were perhaps set a bit too high for the directorial debut of Wally Pfister,...

Draft Day | Review

Final Draft: Reitman’s By the Numbers Sports Drama Director Ivan Reitman leaves behind the realm of rom-com for a masculine about-face with the football drama,...

Noah | Review

Wrath of a Titan: D’aronofsky’s Demilled Egg Four years after his critically lauded Black Swan, a work of finesse made despite budgetary limitations from Darren...

Sabotage | Review

Treacherous Uncoupling: Ayer’s Latest May is Fun, Brutally Violent Nonsense Okay, so, if you can keep in mind that the outcome of its tizzied, conventional...

Divergent | Review

Dissatisfaction: Burger Launches the Next YA Dystopia to Unwieldy Lengths Director Neil Burger joins genre courting/sci-fi alum Andrew Niccol’s dip into the abscessed pool of...

Need For Speed | Review

On the Road Again: Waugh’s Woeful Film an Offending Lemon Leaving behind the galvanizing propaganda of his Navy SEALs plugged film debut, Act of Valor,...

300: Rise of an Empire | Review

Empire Strikes Back: Murro Piggy-back’s Off Snyder’s Initial Action Epic Though director Zach Snyder may not be returning for director duties of 300: Rise of...

Non-Stop | Review

Murder on the Familiar Express: Collett-Serra’s Airborne Caper a Watchable Throwback Director Jaume Collet-Serra has jumped aboard the Liam Neeson renaissance train, reuniting with star...

Odd Thomas | Review

Odd Man Out: Delayed Koontz Adaptation a Tone Deaf Misfire Filmed way back in 2011 and then delayed indefinitely in 2013 due to legal actions...

3 Days to Kill | Review

Days Go By: McG Can’t Find the Beat in Mottled Espionage Drama Now with a handful of brightly lit baubles of films to his name...

Open Grave | Review

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Lopez-Gallego and the Search for Substance In 2011, some may recall a found footage moon expedition thriller called Apollo 18, the...

Lone Survivor | Review

Casualties of War: Berg’s Brutal Depiction of Failed SEALS Op Career Best For the purposes of context, one may be interested in noting that Lone...

47 Ronin | Review

Rawhide Chew: Rinsch’s CGI Laden Retelling a Cardboard Snooze The story of the 47 Ronin, a Japanese tale based in historical fact that has become...

Grudge Match | Review

Trudge Match: Peter Segal, Cashing Checks At the end of the day, Peter Segal’s latest directorial effort, Grudge Match, may not be the felonious stink...

The Wolf of Wall Street | Review

Greed Is Great: Scorsese’s Latest a Coke Fueled, Orgiastic Comedy Reconstructing the based on a true tale account of one Jordan Belfort’s rise through the...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Review

Life is Like a Box of Chalk: Stiller Revamps Thurber for Hollow Melancholy With its soaring visuals and dizzying soundtrack of expertly placed tunes to...

Her | Review

High Tech Affairs: Jonze Unites Poets & Processors In Her, Spike Jonze’s brainy and big hearted exploration of near future human relationships with techno-intelligence, Joaquin...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | Review

Smaug Hat: Jackson’s Second Entry Back on Track Beyond the glaring distraction of the 48fps digital cinematography in Peter Jackson’s first installment of his bloated...

Saving Mr. Banks | Review

Sugartime: Hancock Syrupy Recount Gets the Disney Dress Up There’s a fascinating story lurking somewhere in John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, but it’s relegated...

OldBoy | Review

Let’s Do It Again: Lee’s Reimagining Imaginative Enough Call it what you will, reimagining, reinterpretation, or remake, Spike Lee’s Oldboy can’t escape its describing root...

Delivery Man | Review

The Americanization of Fertility: Scott’s Sterile Remake a Stale Venture With Delivery Man, which is a remake of his 2011 French Canadian hit, Starbuck, director...

Last Vegas | Review

Hangdog Hangover: Formulaic Comedy Eschews Characterization for Product Placement Director Jon Turteltaub, whose career is bolstered by a resume of unquestionably mainstream Hollywood fare, perhaps...

Insidious: Chapter 2 | Review

When Less is More: Wan’s Sequel Does 2 Much A follow-up to 2010’s highly entertaining old-school horror throwback Insidious seemed a tall order, yet James...

Paranoia | Review

Check Check Check Mate: Luketic’s Bland Thriller an Injustice to White Collar Crime Another bungled disappointment from Robert Luketic arrives in the form of Paranoia,...

We’re the Millers | Review

Mill on the Doss: Thurber’s Arbitrary Comedy Rests on Laurels of Cast Charm Filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber, whose directorial debut was the Ben Stiller goof-fest...

The Conjuring | Review

Demon in my View: Wan’s Latest a Delightfully Spooky Throwback James Wan, notorious nearly a decade ago for helming the first Saw film, has clearly...

The Company You Keep | Review

Return for Redford as Actor/Director in Heated Political Thriller Robert Redford, the actor, has been a staple of American pop culture for half a century,...

The Host | Review

Disembodied: Niccol Unable to Overcome Parasitic Source Material For the sake of comparison, it’s safe to say that the latest adaptation of a Stephanie Meyer’s...

Oz the Great and Powerful | Review

Dour and Sorrowful: Raimi’s Revamp a Hollow Echo of Magical Source Material Serving as only yet another testament to the flaccid capabilities of blatant dependence...

Dead Man Down | Review

Down With Love: Oplev’s American Debut Silly and Enjoyable Reuniting with Noomi Rapace, star of his insanely successful 2009 adaptation of The Girl with the...

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