While 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 MoreI may be aiming too high with this praise, but I really think Side Effects is the kind of movie famed director Alfred Hitchcock would make if he were alive and working in this era. It has that level of twisted nerve and ripe subject matter.
Read MoreIn a new editorial project to follow up this past weekend's 85th Academy Awards, I wanted to look deep into the crystal ball and see if I could earmark some movies coming here this year in 2013 that could shape up to be Oscar contenders for the 86th Academy Awards happening in 2014.
Read MoreAnother year and another awards season are in the books. As always, I enjoy seeing what movies end up showered with praise and which ones were not. Last night's exceeding long Oscar show results from the 85th Academy Awards are in and the final scores on my "2012 Awards Tracker" are updated below.
Read MoreAfter a series of seven articles breaking down and researching the nominees, trends, snubs, surprises, and favorites from every award category, here is my finalized checklist of my 2013 Oscar predictions for the 85th Academy Awards.
Read MoreIf it's action you're ordering with A Good Day to Die Hard, you'll get it, but you'll wonder where all the fun and purpose went from what you've seen before.
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 Moren honor of Super Bowl XLVII happening this weekend at the Superdome in New Orleans between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, I wanted to put a little movie spin on the fun of Super Bowl week. There have been many dramatic and heroic football movies made over the years. I've already made my list of the best of all-time football films right here, but wanted to look at the many individual characters this time.
Read MoreAbout those twists, very little surprises you in Broken City. Remember, the plot was supposed to be bigger than a Law and Order episode but comes across about as daring as sub-par Lifetime movie.
Read MoreThe movie teases the macho Arnold we've been salivating for, but it just doesn't deliver. His fifteen or so minutes in The Expendables 2 are better than the 107 minutes here in The Last Stand.
Read MoreGangster Squad suffers from a Hollywood system with no new or original ideas to back up the flashy exterior. It poorly attempts to combine the best elements from other gangster movies together and very few things stick.
Read MoreI'm the movie nerd that is right now writing his wish list for 2013 like a kid making a Christmas list.
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