The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

The Life Aquatic wit

★★★ Director: Wes Anderson Year: 2004 I love Wes Anderson but this is one of his films I've never been able to get through. So I tried it ...

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Hunger Games: Catchi

★★★ Director: Francis Lawrence Year: 2013 I enjoyed Hunger Games and thought the series would be a fun continuation. But the fact that they broke this up into ...

The Darjeerling Limited

The Darjeerling Limi

★★★ Director: Wes Anderson Year: 2007 I absolutely love Wes Anderson films and yet, this is one of his films I just never wanted to watch. It just ...

The Expendables 2

The Expendables 2

★★ Director: Simon West Year: 2012 It's amazing how formulaic all action films used to be. And with them getting intellectual, it's nice to grasp onto my childhood ...

All is Lost

All is Lost

★★★ Director: J.C. Chandor Year: 2013 I'll admit it that this was a film I had no intention of watching. The trailer made it look like Cast Away ...

Ender’s Game

Ender’s Game

★★ Director: Gavin Hood Year: 2013 I never read the book (nor would I want to). The film started out decent, almost reminded me of what I liked ...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of W

★★★ Director: Ben Stiller Year: 2013 I really wanted to like this movie. It's visually gorgeous. Stuart Dryburgh did an amazing job. And the fact that this is ...

Frozen

Frozen

★★★ Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee Year: 2013 Another film that had such great promise and yet fell short. If they would have only cast Broadway singers/performers rather ...

Turbo

Turbo

★★ Director: David Soren Year: 2013 This is one of those films where the overplay and media buy of trailers killed it before it even reached theaters. I ...

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World

★★ Director: Alan Taylor, James Gunn Year: 2013 I was all excited to see my first 4D movie and well, it was okay. It felt like watching a ...

Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim

★★ Director: Guillermo del Toro Year: 2013 Such high hopes for this film. Absolutely love the Japanese comic premise of the alien invasion, role of dinosaurs and awesome ...

Oblivion

Oblivion

★★ Director: Joseph Kosinski Year: 2013 The best looking spaceships of any film I've seen. They're space age praying mantis's which are very cool. Also, it's nice to ...

Monsters University

Monsters University

★★★ Director: Dan Scanlon Year: 2013 Since this is set during college times, I'm sure some of it is difficult for kids to understand. But the characters are ...

Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

★★★ Director: Shane Black Year: 2013 Surprisingly, I quite enjoyed this. As summer blockbusters go, this definitely had it all. And much better than Iron Man 2. As ...

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Ro

★★★ Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Year: 1938 Watching this film right after a serious financial documentary sure shows how eclectic my tastes are. That's what happens when ...

A Monster in Paris

A Monster in Paris

★★★ Director: Bibo Bergeron Year: 2011 What an absolutely strange film. It mashes up The Fly and The Phantom of the Opera together in an animated kids film. ...

Man of Steel

Man of Steel

★★★ Director: Zack Snyder Year: 2013 To me, like others, Christopher Reeve is my film idea of Superman. Granted, the last remake was so bad, it only reinforced ...

Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkn

★★★★ Director: J.J. Abrams Year: 2013 As someone who didn't grow up watching Star Trek, I don't know much of the backstory. So I found this to be ...