As the inaugural movie on my new Playstation 3, I could have chosen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the only movie I really wanted on Blu-Ray), or Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or even Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. But no, instead, I had to watch Fantastic Four: Rise [...]

I’m wary, but I think the Justice League: The New Frontier looks like it might be good. It’s trying to distill a fairly complex comic mini-series into a 90 minute movie, and that usually doesn’t work too well. Also, the direct-to-video DC Comic movies have been hit or miss, with mostly misses recently.

The voice talent [...]

Hailed as the popcorn flick of the summer of 2007, Transformers is a really bad movie with great special effects. So I guess that’s what passes for popcorn flick these days: overproduced, underwritten, crappy movies. I know, I shouldn’t be surprised. I watched this travesty over the Thanksgiving weekend. Quite appropriate, since it was a [...]

Not Safe for Work. But Funny. Well, gross, at least.

I had been meaning to watch The Host when it came out on DVD: after all, it’s one of the best reviewed movies of 2007, and has an impressive 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. And it’s an Asian giant monster movie and one of the most popular films in South Korea ever. There was no way [...]