Captain America: The Winter Soldier Review

Is Captain America: The Winter Soldier a worthy entry into the Marvel Cannon? Find out in my review. ...

Hammer's The Quiet Ones - The True Story

Hammer's new supernatural movie The Quiet Ones, in which a University physics professor assembles a team to help create a poltergeist, is actually based on a true story which happened way back in the 1970's, when a group of Canadian scientists similarly tried to create a ghost of their own. What they discovered turned out to be quite shocking. ...

Why Disney's "Frozen" Is a Bad Movie

I just finished watching the popular Disney movie, "Frozen", for the second time. The hype surrounding the movie was obnoxious and everyone was saying that, "'Frozen' is one of the best movies of all time." Watching it my first time around, it wasn't great; the bar was set pretty high and my expectations didn't meet up to the reality of the movie. ...

Clint Eastwood Goes To War

Clint Eastwood does a darn fine job when he plays a mysterious Western gunslinger, a tough American cop, or a bare-knuckled fighter whose best buddy is an orang-utan. He also does an equally darn fine job whenever he plays a war hero. ...

Comparing "Muppets Most Wanted" to Other Movies in the Muppet World

Ty Burrell, Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais join the Muppets on screen in "Muppets Most Wanted." Jim Henson's lovable puppet and marionette hybrids have come bursting back onto the pop cultural scene. ...

"LE WEEK-END" - A New Film Report

The beginning of this film reminds me of a joke where a guy says to his wife, "What would you like for our anniversary, dear?" And she replies, "A DIVORCE!" "Oh,"' he says, "I can't afford THAT? What else would you like?"... "A WEEK-END TRIP TO PARIS!" And that is how this movie might well have got its start. For in it, we see a couple- they have been married for thirty unhappy years-- Nick Burrows (played by Jim Broadbent) and Meg, his wife (played by Lindsay Duncan). They are en route by train to Paris for the week-end: it is their return there where once they enjoyed a young fresh honeymoon (thirty long years ago). ...