Drama, 91 Minutes, 2013
This movie is, plain-and-simple, a God-damn achievement. IMAX was invented in 1970 and spent all that time waiting for this movie. You can tear them all down now, all the IMAX theatres. Nothing will ever be so perfectly matched to the format again. It was also the first time that I didn’t feel ripped off by the $15 ticket price.
If anybody deserves a tribute documentary it’s Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes“. He produced one of, if not the, most beloved comic strip of all times, fought tirelessly for artistic freedom on the comics pages and chose to forgo a significant fortune by refusing to merchandise his creation.
The film looks to set exactly the right tone of fun, awe and respect. It will be in (a very limited number of) theaters and available digitally on Nov. 15. A large assortment of DVD and Blu-Ray bundles are also available for pre-order at the official website.
“The Hangover Part III” on IMDB
Comedy, 107 Minutes, 2013
The repetitive second entry (our review) essentially tweaked the script from the first, and best, movie. It tossed all of the potential character and relationship growth and said, basically, “let’s just do that again.” This third entry is far from perfect, but is much more of a sequel to the first and much more satisfying for it.
Comedy, 107 Minutes, 2013
This was so stupid. Stupid and silly. Stupid, silly and completely freakin’ hilarious. It’s not really the kind of movie that you’ll watch twice – most of the laughs are surprise shockers – but it’s definitely the kind of movie that you’ll laugh your ass off at.
Fantasy, 98 Minutes, 2013
The Croods are cavemen. In fact, after a series of misadventures, they are the very last cavemen in their area. They say they survive by fearing everything, rarely leaving their cave and never doing anything new. They actually survive via bombastic, attention-drawing action sequences that completely ignore everything they say.
Horror, 85 Minutes, 2010
Kids hiking through Europe are going missing near a small village in Poland and a junior reporter thinks there’s a story. Her editor demads she report on Honey Bee colony collapse (because editors will always shift resources away from young missing Americans abroad to cover science stories). Following her gut and ignoring orders she convinces her ex-boyfriend photographer and an intern to go AWOL and investigate the disappearances.
Sci-Fi, 100 Minutes, 2013
This may not actually be as bad as you may have heard but lordy, lordy it ain’t good. A lot has been said about M. Night Shyamalan’s [IMDB] fall from grace. I’m not one to kick a man when he’s down but dammit, this guy does not make it easy.
[Minor spoilers follow. Sorry.]
Fantasy, 100 Minutes, 2013
This was from a lot of the same people that brought you the weirdly fun “Orcs” [Our Review]. Apparently they got a good deal on the equipment because they’re back again with even more orcs.
“Android Insurrection” on IMDB
Sci-fi, 90 Minutes, 2012
This a terrible movie full of terrible things. But it is damn funny. It’s not meant to be funny, but it’s damn funny. Hard to watch, harder to follow and ridiculously difficult to take seriously, but damn funny.
It has all the problems of z-budget sci-fi. Terrible sets, terrible green screen and terrible integration of the, honestly, actually pretty good CGI. The whole movie gives the impression that one guy got pretty good at making robots on the computer and his dumbass friends decided that they would make such an awesome movie!
Horror/Comedy, 100 Minutes, 2013
Vampires are what we used to have before zombies. They pretty much all migrated to TV and terrible tween books, but a few years ago they were some kind of hot shit.
In this we meet Wayne Gretzky (no relation, and the first of several running jokes that goes absolutely nowhere), an ancient vampire who accidentally killed his mortal love 300 years earlier. Since then he’s been vampire-impotent and unable to “grow his teeth”. He now works as a history professor, survives on animal blood, and is generally pretty content.
