"Kick-Ass" is probably one of the most interesting movies I’ve seen in quite some time. It isn’t really a drama, it isn’t really a comedy, it isn’t really all action, it’s just kind of there, but not in the bad way like a closed McDonalds, but rather it actually blends all of those genres into something much grander. "Kick-Ass" is the story of Dave, a gawky teenager who sucks at talking ...

Ah, "Clash of the Titans." The movie we’ve all been waiting for since the previews started dominating commercials during The Office. A remake of a movie that sucked 30 years ago must be good, right? And better yet, it’s directed by Louis Leterrier, a director known for raping "The Incredible Hulk," and it stars Sam Worthington, who had a hand in destroying the "Terminator" franchise. It can’t miss! "Clash of the ...

"RepoMen" is one of the few movies I’ve seen this year that I was actually looking forward to. You don’t see good sci-fi anymore because original ideas are drowned in big-budget fantasy crap like "Transformers" and "Avatar." The last good sci-fi movie to hit screens was "District 9," which it probably wouldn’t have made it into most theaters if it hadn't had Peter Jackson’s name attached to it. Jackson seems ...

Well, this is embarrassing. I’ve pretty much spent my entire, brief review-writing career tearing apart movies that most people enjoy and bitching about every little contrivance, blowing it up far bigger than it needs to be in the sake of comedy. When I went to see "How to Train Your Dragon" last night in 3D, I wasn’t expecting anything different. Like Wesley Snipes before he met Woody Harrelson in "White ...

"Ponyo" is a movie that I only saw because of my roommate. It’s not that I have anything against the Japanese culture (I love Godzilla), it’s just that anime creeps me the hell out (go ahead and google “Anime” with the safe-search turned off. I dare you.) Nonetheless the film got good reviews when it first came out and it won multiple awards in Japan, which I assume it achieved ...

Why does Tim Burton insist on turning classical children’s stories into dark, twisted, night-marish, creepy portraits of pure comic terror? I imagine he was picked on much as a child, and this is simply his way of getting back at the society that mocked him and stole his lunch money on a daily basis in elementary school. First he had to take Willy Wonkaand turn it into a slide-show of darkness ...