Arthur (2011– 110 mins) R. Brand, J. Garner, H. Mirren, G. Gerwig This is going to be a string of a few movie reviews of flicks that were BLASTED in the press, or completely ignored, that I either liked completely or just thought wasn’t too bad at all. Here, we have “Arthur” the remake of […]

Hall Pass (2011– 105 mins) O. Wilson, J, Sudeikis, J. Fischer, C. Applegate There are slapstick comedies which you want to watch a ton, the ones like “Old School” which are classic, have a great cast, you quote them all the time, and they help the time pass quick and easy. They are the ones […]

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011– 118 mins) M. McConaughey, R. Phillipe, WH Macy, M. Tomei  “The Lincoln Lawyer” is about a lawyer, Mick Haller (McConaughey) who has the unconventional business practice of using his car (THE LINCOLN!— oh how clever) as his office. As with most courtroom drama’s he’s a pretty savvy lawyer and is good […]

Rango (2011– 107 Mins) J. Depp The last ten years or so the quality of kids movies has gone up quite a bit. From Pixar to Dreamworks, they continue to get smart writers and top notch animators. “Rango” is one such success story. Like all true successful kids movies in the past, “Rango” throws a […]

Barney’s Version (2010– 134 mins) P. Giamatti, R. Pike, D. Hoffman Barney is one of those typical Paul Giamatti characters. He’s impulsive, he smokes and drinks a lot, and he loud. We first meet Barney in his 60’s and he seems utterly annoyed with himself and his life currently and suddenly we are thrown into […]

Kill The Irishman (2011– 106mins) Ray Stevenson, Vincent D’ Onofrio Kill the Irishman is an entertaining true story of Danny Greene, something of a local folk hero from the streets of Cleveland. The man who the cops couldn’t get permanently and the mob couldn’t kill. He started off simply enough as a working stiff in […]

The Other Woman (2009–119 mins) N. Portman, S. Cohen, L. Kudrow The other woman is a lesser known Indy drama about love, loss, and the fight of a woman to get over all of it. Portman plays a young lawyer named Emilia Greenleaf. She’s a smart attorney who grabs the eye of one of the […]

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010- 113 mins) Narnia has been a place that has been loved by many hated by some, but always looked amazing on the big screen. In this installment we find Lucy, Edmund and their pesky cousin Eustace being brought back into the fantasy world. They […]

The Company Men (2010– 104 mins) B. Affleck, Tommy Le Jones, C. Cooper So many times when we watch movies, we get involved with trying to figure everything out. Some of those times while doing this we are trying to follow complex and convoluted story lines. Occasionally you get a film which is more of […]

Battle Los Angeles (2011- 116 mins) A. Eckhart, M. Rodriguez Battle LA is a movie about an alien invasion of earth. Think of “Skyline” without all the suckage. It’s a pretty grand invasion with surprise on the alien’s side and strength in numbers and technology. On our side we have a bunch of seemingly inept […]