With all of the brilliant hype and buzz generated by the novel's wild success, I was expected gravitas and pathos, something on the level of Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. What I got was a romance worthy of Water for Elephants and shallower kid version of The Running Man if it was run by the TV people of The Truman Show.
Read MoreLet's face it. Genitalia jokes and people on drugs are funny. Cringing over homophobia and stereotypes is funny. Elaborate profanity delivered by Ice Cube's angry demeanor and Jonah Hill's constant state of nervous fluster are always going to be hilarious. 21 Jump Street puts all of those charged ingredients together better than Paula Dean combines carbohydrates and cholesterol.
Read MoreWith the action-comedy release of 21 Jump Street this weekend, I couldn't help but look into my deeply educated and sarcastic opinion and taste to examine what movies are the best adaptations of television shows of all-time.
Read MoreThe infinitely detailed world that Burroughs created 100 years ago in 1912 when it originally debuted as a magazine serial was transcendent, wildly inventive, and one of the major influences for George Lucas in creating Star Wars, James Cameron's Avatar world, and the science-fictional novelists that followed such as Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan. To those gentleman, John Carter was their childhood "light bulb" discovery and fantasy, and it came in novel form, not a cartoon or a movie.
Read MoreWhat if a troubled and bullied teen, who's not so supported at home, got a hold of superpowers? That's the hook that sets apart Chronicle from both other teen films and other superhero films.
Read MoreI hope everyone enjoyed the 84th Academy Awards last night. I know I did. To close up this 2011-2012 awards season, I wanted to put a closing on the AWARDS TRACKER that I have been maintaining since November.
Read MoreIn honor of the Presidents Day holiday week in progress, I cooked up a quick editorial of my list of the top movie Presidents.
Read MoreAfter a series of nine articles breaking down and researching the nominees, trends, snubs, surprises, and favorites from every award category, here is my finalized checklist of my 2012 Oscar predictions for the 84th Academy Awards.
Read MoreIn a loose sequel to my last editorial on "romantic escapes" charting and outlining a date movie for every state in the United States of America, I offer you an international follow-up. The two-hour vacation of a good romance or a good date movie shouldn't stop at the borders of America.
Read MoreWith a bit of research (thanks, IMDB), I have put together a fifty state tour of the United States of America through romantic movies. Every state is known for something (as the map above jokes) and their movies can be part of that. Listed below are some classic, favorite, unique, and sometimes odd romantic comedies and/or dramas that are either filmed in or set in each of the great states of our Union.
Read MoreThe plot of Haywire kind of lives up to its name. It dances a little too much between the present and the past for the first half of the movie, taking too long for us to really get what's going on. That said, Haywire still manages to entertain us along the way thanks to blisteringly kinetic fight scenes involving Gina Carano.
Read MoreTo me, Liam Neeson is channeling a darker and fiercer resolve than the other silver-haired tough guys like Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, and Steve McQueen that came before him. He's more rugged than Bronson, channels more rage than Eastwood, and is more stoic than McQueen's coolness. At this kind of game, he's better than any one of those guys would be if they were in roles like The Grey or Taken.
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