The Wolverine is a tangent standalone story that follows up one of the two post-credit teases that came out of X-Men: Origins Wolverine. This film showcases Logan's storied history in Japan that is loosely based off a much-loved four-issue 1982 comic mini-series by writer Chris Claremont and artist Frank Miller. This is the movie we should have gotten four years ago. It's far from a perfect movie, but far from a bad one as well.
Read MoreThe latest giddy summer spectacle, Pacific Rim, will be the torch bearer of guilty pleasure for the decade of the 2010's. Mark my words on that. Plenty will love it now and, don't get me wrong, there is plenty here to love. Still, an equal plenty will regret it later and increasingly roll their eyes with every repeat viewing as the movie gets overshadowed by the next shiny object birthed by Hollywood hit factories.
Read MoreThis Is the End goes all out with reckless abandon to shock and entertain and makes zero apologies to the audience. I will admit and stand equal with the other movie critics out there giving This Is the End positive reviews on the observation that, jokes aside, it's all a stinging commentary to the celebrity scene and a cleverly deliberate mocking of blockbuster movies. It has those things going for it.
Read MoreAll of the creativity and humor of Monsters University is going to go blazing over their heads. In crowded auditorium of families and kids, us adults laughed way more than the kids. That shouldn't happen.
Read MoreThe Kings of Summer, while solid summer counter-programming against the big ticket blockbusters, just isn't on the level of last year's outstanding pair of summer coming-of-age movies.
Read MoreWell, it took a second try, but The Hangover Part III actually attempted the rule of a good sequel by expanding the story and raising the stakes. Because this is the finale, there are still plenty of nods and connections to the first two films, but Todd Phillips did attempt some new shenanigans. The trouble is I'm not sure if it was a direction that worked.
Read MoreOlympus Has Fallen dials up a spring picnic of R-rated thrills and summer-level action a month before the big summer season really gets things underway.
Read MoreWhile it's no fine wine or instant classic, Bryan Singer and his team demonstrated better than the other steroid-enhanced fairy tale movies that the most important thing with this kind of retelling is to not tear up the roots. Jack the Giant Slayer's embrace of its bedtime story nature and that is its greatest strength. It should be a guide for future fairy tale enhancements to stick to the core ideals that made it great and to mold your spectacle around it, not above it.
Read MoreNot all of what they attempt clicks or works 100% of the time, but Warm Bodies is like nothing else you will see in the romantic or zombie genres.
Read MoreThere are two real questions fans and moviegoers should be asking when approaching Jack Reacher. The first is whether Tom Cruise can portray WHO Jack Reacher is, not WHAT he looks like. The second real question is whether the completed and compiled movie effort is entertaining.
Read MoreForeign films can sometimes be a mixed bag, but when Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard is involved, people should take notice.
Read MoreWith deep creativity and homages to video games new and old, Wreck-It Ralph is a great deal of fun for all ages.
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