A better title would have been The Mighty Tonto and His Uninteresting, Whiny Masked Sidekick, but I’m getting ahead of myself. In this adaptation of the classic radio serial, Armie Hammer plays a bumbling lawman who pursues a dastardly villain (William Fichtner, effectively nasty) and learns to become a desert warrior through the help of Tonto (played by Johnny Depp), a Native … [Read more...] about THE LONE RANGER New Movie Review
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WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
A feeling of paranoid nostalgia swept across me during a screening of World War Z. An hour into the movie, which I caught with my family at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Theater, someone in the audience coughed. This is not what you want to hear when the movie in question is a virus-oriented horror movie. It made me remember seeing Outbreak when I was in high school and, at the same … [Read more...] about WORLD WAR Z New Movie Review
MAN OF STEEL New Movie Review
The most interesting thing about Superman has always been his unacknowledged status as the American Jesus, a figure defined by his genuinely good character and compassionate nature. Most superheroes are far more interesting when out of their spandex disguises and revealed for whom they are. Batman and Iron Man are striking by themselves by Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark are … [Read more...] about MAN OF STEEL New Movie Review
THIS IS THE END New Movie Review
I once had a vivid dream that the sun was slowly headed towards Earth, about to scorch the planet, and I was in a line waiting to board a spaceship. Among those standing next to me, hoping to leave earth before it faced incineration, was Bill Murray. He just stood next to me, waiting for his turn, like everyone else. The makers of This is The End understand the sad, human … [Read more...] about THIS IS THE END New Movie Review
AFTER EARTH New Movie Review
Picking on a bad movie can be a lot of fun for film critics, a form of “revenge” that justifies having suffered through a cinematic turkey. The word was out on M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth not long before release: accusations of being a vanity project for co-star and co-producer Will Smith and another unfortunate outing for Shyamalan, who was once called “The Next … [Read more...] about AFTER EARTH New Movie Review