Sci-fi/Horror, 88 Minutes, 2011
FINALLY an alien movie with something a little different! No grey-skinned, multi-limbed, claw-handed, slit-eyed generic E.T.s here! (OKay… there is one – kinda – but it’s small and gets killed almost immediately.) The aliens here are jet-black, hairy, indistinct beasts with row upon row of luminescent teeth. While this relatively simple effect may have been chosen for budget reasons it was used beautifully and to repeatedly great effect.
Action/Sci-fi, 118 Minutes, 2011
I enjoyed this quite a bit but I can see good reasons why some people may not. It was slow getting going – downright lethargic in places. There was also a little silliness with Olivia Wilde’s character, but nothing too distracting.
Action, 104 Minutes, 2011
This really isn’t that bad of a movie. A modern interpretation of grindhouse classics it has all of the ultra-violent silliness you could want to see. The story – a condemned grandfather escapes from Hell to save his infant granddaughter from being sacrificed by a deranged cult leader – is workable.
Horror/Sci-Fi, 87 Minutes, 2011
Apocalyptic wastelands, vampires and related monsters, bad-ass futuristic motorcycles and ass-kicking ninja priests. Yeah; I like this movie.
Action, 110 Minutes, 2011
There are at least two ways to view this film. The most obvious (and most fun) is as a modern-day “Heavy Metal” with a stronger connecting story. The main story follows a troubled girl who escapes into lavish, multi-layered fantasy in her attempts to escape the sanitarium before she’s lobotomized.
Adventure, 114 Minutes, 2011
This is exactly the kind of movie I love, so it’s hard to be completely objective about it. It’s got fighting and swords and honor and mud and fighting and horses and friendship and more fighting. If you like those things, you’ll like this. There’s not much more to say.
Action, 114 Minutes, 2011
I’m surprised at the vitriol that reviewers seem to have for this film. Could the entire industry just have been having a bad day? Because the movie, while far from the best thing ever, is also very far from the worst. One of the criticisms that I continually hear is that it’s too “formula” or “clichéd”. Of course it is: DC Comics invented the formula! The Green Lantern was created over 60 years ago – doing the source material any justice at all means painting-by-the-numbers to at least some extent.
Action, 116 Minutes, 2011
I actually really liked this. Sure, it was clichéd but it was clichéd in all the right places. Aliens attack and soldiers fight them. We know this because no movie is allowed to start without a flash-forward (apparently there’s a law).
Action/Comedy, 86 Minutes, 2011
As much as I’m normally a fan of the grindhouse genre and recent homages I found myself having trouble with “Hobo with a Shotgun”. It’s easy to take the simple path out: the film is meant, by loving design, to appear like the best (worst?) low-budget, over-the-top gore-fests of the early 80’s. Most people will watch a few minutes and walk away blaming the production values or the gore or both.
Action, 115 Minutes, 2003
This was a pretty standard action movie. A tough, straight DEA agent goes rogue after a cartel attempts to kill him and murders his wife in the process.
