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Green Lantern
Ben Lee writes: "Despite prior concerns over whether the Norse God of Thunder would translate well from comic form to film, "Thor" delivered a smart and enjoyable experience. Thor may have started as a...
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Bad Teacher
Jason Venter writes: "To enjoy some movies, you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief. You have to forget for two or three hours the elements in a film that should never be questioned, only...
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Cars 2
John Natsis writes: "In the modern age, people typically associate the quality of a film with its director or cast, but very rarely do entire studios develop a similar reputation. The Pixar studio is...
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Horrible Bosses
Jason Venter writes: "Most of us who have been in the work force for any length of time can recall bosses we didn't much care for, because part of the whole package when you're a boss is that you're...
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Larry Crowne
Ben Lee writes: ""Larry Crowne" reminds me an awful lot of one of my favourite current comedies, NBC's "Community". On that show, Joel McHale plays Jeff Winger, a lawyer forced to attend a community...
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Zookeeper
Jason Venter writes: "You don't have to change who you are to be happy. That's the message that Griffin Keyes (Kevin James) learns in Zookeeper. It's a non-conformist message delivered in a generally...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Jason Venter writes: "Movie titles don't come much more descriptive than the one with which Forgetting Sarah Marshall has been blessed. The film, written by and starring Jason Segel, tells the story...
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Get Him to the Greek
Jason Venter writes: "Get Him to the Greek feels a lot like a sequel. It features Russell Brand as the lead singer of a fictional band named Infant Sorrow, for instance. He played that character in...
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Ben Lee writes: "As long as robots are brutally kicking robot ass in spectacular CGI fashion, the "Transformers" series will continue to be highly profitable, at least for the foreseeable future. Much...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
John Natsis writes: "Finales with real magnitude seem to come around once every few years in the case of television shows, but we very rarely see them for feature films. The conclusion to the Harry...
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Winnie the Pooh [2011]
Jason Venter writes: "In the 1970s and sporadically throughout the years that followed, Winnie the Pooh was a delight. In the new millennium, surrounded by computer-animated cars and robots and mice,...
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Friends with Benefits
Jason Venter writes: "If you're looking for a romantic comedy that makes the genre's tropes credible, that makes its lead characters relatable while giving them personality quirks that actually matter,...
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Mike Suskie writes: "For a while, I dismissed the subtitle in Captain America: The First Avenger as an attempt to sell one of Marvel's less-popular franchises to audiences who have already been told...
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Cowboys & Aliens
Jason Venter writes: "Cowboys & Aliens knows how a movie should start. It begins as Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of a desert with a cut on his gut, a picture in his pocket,...
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Jason Venter writes: "Crazy, Stupid, Love. is a comedy that begins with a crisis. Cal (Steve Carell) is seated at a table finishing up a meal with his wife of 25 years, Emily (Julianne Moore) and...
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The Tourist
Ben Lee writes: "On paper, "The Tourist" looked like it had every chance of being a worthwhile and entertaining popcorn flick. Not only is it set in the beautiful city of Venice, but it also stars...
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The Change-Up
Jason Venter writes: "While peeing into a fountain in the park after a night of too much drinking, long-time best friends Dave Lockwood (Jason Bateman) and Mitch Planko (Ryan Reynolds) simultaneously...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Natsis writes: "Before I begin, there is something I need to get off my chest. Rise... of the Planet... of the Apes? I can understand the producers' desire to link this film with the rest of the...
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Senna
John Natsis writes: "Leaving the cinema after the screening of "Senna", the cinephilic documentary of the Formula One driver tragically killed in the prime of his career, I knew I had seen something...
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Final Destination 5
Ben Lee writes: "It's easy to recommend "Final Destination 5" to those who are fans of the series. This newest effort in the long-running series is an enjoyable flick and serves as a return to form...
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