Yes, this is a somewhat different Godzilla than was featured in more than twenty Japanese movies from Toho Studios. Yet much is the same in terms of the Big Guy’s character (especially in the later films) and even the idea […]
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The Other Woman (2014) ☆ ☆
I really wanted to like The Other Woman because so few comedies, or any movies for that matter, establish strong female characters and allow them to be as strong and wild as most male movie characters. Lately, though, thanks to gross-out […]
Continue reading »Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Comic book superhero movies aren’t really my thing, and yet I’ve enjoyed several of them lately from Marvel. This is the second go-round (not counting The Avengers) of Steve Rogers, better known as Captain America (Chris Evans), the World War […]
Continue reading »The Railway Man (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Just receiving its theatrical release now is a character study / question of morality film based on a true story begun in World War II. A British engineer (Jeremy Irvine) is among several taken prisoner in Singapore by the Japanese. […]
Continue reading »Bears (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
Each Earth Day Walt Disney studios releases a live-action nature film, and I look forward to seeing them. They always feature amazing photography and usually offer remarkable glimpses into areas on our planet which most of us will never explore […]
Continue reading »Transcendence (2014) ☆ ☆
I love great science-fiction movies; heck, I love good ones and bad ones, too. What I don’t love are dull pseudo-scientific treatises on philosophy and morality which leave logic stranded somewhere in the desert near Brightwood. That’s where the widow […]
Continue reading »Draft Day (2014) ☆ ☆ ☆
It’s only April and Kevin Costner has already starred in three movies this year. I’ve only seen one, however, which is his latest effort, Draft Day. No one is more closely associated with sports movies than Costner, and this project […]
Continue reading »Noah (2014) ☆ ☆
We’ve all heard the legend of Noah and the Great Flood which wiped out the world so many years ago, saving only a handful of people and two of many animal species. This new movie, Noah, directed and co-written by […]
Continue reading »Divergent (2013) ☆ ☆ ☆
Like The Hunger Games, Divergent is being established as a “young adult” futuristic science-fiction franchise centered around a likable young woman who has capabilities far beyond her own awareness. Both franchises begin with preposterous social systems as a basic premise, but […]
Continue reading »Sabotage (2014) ☆ ☆ 1/2
Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying, in his sixties, to re-establish himself as an action star after his stint in California politics. To his credit, he’s attaching himself to projects written and directed by good young filmmakers. However, the results have been […]
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