Edge of Tomorrow Directed by Doug Liman “Edge of Tomorrow” is a very well executed movie about a man who gets caught in the middle of an alien invasion, and who acquires a “Groundhog Day”-like...
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A Million Ways to Die in the West Co-Written and Directed by Seth MacFarlane For decades, in books, television and film, we’ve romanticized the American West. Along the way, we’ve tended to ignore...
X-Men: Days of Future Past Directed by Bryan Singer Most viewers of the latest X-Men chapter will be too young to remember Patrick Duffy, as Bobby Ewing, appear in the shower in the original “Dallas”...
Godzilla Directed by Gareth Edwards “Godzilla” is one of those flawed movies where the flaws don’t really matter. After all, with that title, most audience members probably haven’t shown up looking...
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Directed by Marc Webb This is the second installment of a reboot of the Spider-Man story that seemed to arrive surprisingly quickly after a series of three somewhat mixed...
The Railway Man Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky There’s a scene in “The Railway Man” in which the central character Eric (played by Jeremy Irvine as a young man and by Colin Firth in middle age)...
Keep reading, there’s a positive review at the end! Transcendence Directed by Wally Pfister There’s a scene early in “Transcendence” in which Johnny Depp’s Dr. Will Caster refers to another...
Draft Day Directed by Ivan Reitman OK, I’ll admit it again – I have a soft spot for Kevin Costner. Despite one or two stinkers on his resume (don’t we all?), he’s been delivering solid performances...
Do you know that feeling when you walk into the wrong movie theater or sail past the drive-in on the highway, catching a bit of jarring, clangy action devoid of context? That’s kind of what all of...
Cesar Chavez What better day to watch “Cesar Chavez” than on Cesar Chavez Day? This well-made and well-acted biopic recounts the period in which Chavez led the labor organization of farm workers...