Monthly Archives: March 2013

G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s opening credits are pretty epic until the word “Hasbro” flashes on the screen. The film is a sequel to 2009’s Rise of Cobra in name only. Retaliation features an entirely new set of writers, a new director … Continue reading →

When writer/director Andrew Niccol took on adapting The Host, Stephanie Meyer’s other book about supernatural love triangles, I was intrigued. My mistake. The melodrama follows Wanderer, a body-snatcher alien whose race has taken over the planet, from the point it … Continue reading →

Die Hard: Olympus has Fallen is a very mild movie, but it’s all just too much. In his astonishing sixth time around the block, John McClane (Gerard Butler), action movie garbage man, must save the president (Aaron Eckhart) from a Korean … Continue reading →

Oz the Great and Powerful is so bad… so bad… The film keys on Oz (James Franco), a ladies’ man circus magician who aspires to “greatness” and is thrust into the fantastic, incredible, 100 percent CGI world of Oz. There, … Continue reading →

Has the dark nursery rhyme film fully cycled in less than a year? Jack the Giant Slayer marks the most recent in a string of just three movies that regurgitate fairy tales for an older audience. It follows the familiar … Continue reading →