The Avengers

The Avengers

★★★ Director: Joss Whedon Year: 2012 Like everyone, I was so psyched to watch this. But it's a mess of a film for the first half. Granted, I ...

In Time

In Time

★★★ Director: Andrew Niccol Year: 2011 This is a film that pisses you off. Only because it's such a brilliant premise, it's gorgeously shot and yet the editing, ...

Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1

Atlas Shrugged Pt. 1

★★ Director: Paul Johansson Year: 2011 I'm not sure how to describe this awful film adaption of one of my favorite books. It's been rumored for so long ...

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

★★★ Director: Gary Ross Year: 2012 It's difficult to call this a rip-off of Battle Royale, since it's based upon a successful book trilogy, but it's definitely ...

Attack the Block

Attack the Block

★ Director: Joe Cornish Year: 2011 Hmmm, what can I say. This movie sucked ass. I was hoping for more. I knew it would be bad, as ...

Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Alien

★ Director: Jon Favreau Year: 2011 Wow, this film was so bad. It's such a great idea for a film, but the story was horrible, the acting possibly ...

Melancholia

Melancholia

★★★ Director: Lars von Trier Year: 2011 I was all psyched to see this, given Kirsten Dunst's win for Best Actress at Cannes. Well, let's just say, it is ...

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark o

★★ Director: Michael Bay Year: 2011 What do you expect  from Transformers' films? Not much. Just mindless explosions, but this one was worse than the previous. And ...

Paul

Paul

★★★ Director: Greg Mottola Year: 2011 Continuing on alien films, here's a great film that takes a completely different approach to what an extra terrestrial should behave ...

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain America: The

★★★ Director: Joe Johnston Year: 2011 As summer blockbuster's went, I wasn't that interested in watching this. Granted, I never read any of the comics growing up. ...

E.T. The Extra-terrestrial

E.T. The Extra-terre

★★★★ Director: Steven Spielberg Year: 1982 I thought it would be nice to introduce this classic to my 6-yo daughter but then found out my wife had ...

Super 8

Super 8

★★★★ Director: J.J. Abrams Year: 2011 This isn't the film everyone expected from the big name duo directing and producing this. But in the spirit of E.T., The ...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet o

★★★ Director: Rupert Wyatt Year: 2011 This film was not what I was expecting. It actually reminded me of 28 Days Later in regards to the pacing and ...

Source Code

Source Code

★★★★★ Director: Duncan Jones Year: 2011 I remember when I first saw the trailers, this didn't look that interesting. And then the reviews came in. RottenTomatoe's gives this ...

Equilibrium

Equilibrium

★★ Director: Kurt Wimmer Year: 2002 This film had so much promise. A great plot. Unfortunately, it just falls apart. I can't say where, but it tries to ...

Vanilla Sky

Vanilla Sky

★ Director: Cameron Crowe Year: 2001 What an absolutely awful film, surprising that it's from Cameron Crowe. The story is so complicated and he tries to make some ...

28 Days Later

28 Days Later

★★★★ Creator: Danny Boyle Year: 2002 Lately, I haven't been able to watch many horror films. But this isn't really a horror film per se. It's more an ...

The Adjustment Bureau

The Adjustment Burea

★★★ Creator: George Nolfi Year: 2011 The best part of this film is that it's a Philip K. Dick story. It's an incredible story but the film falls ...