Movie Reviews

A movie based on Barbie. Hell, why can’t we have it? We’ve already had numerous Transformers movies, a live-action adaptation of Jem and the Holograms, some G.I. Joe flicks, and multitudes of other toys that sparked the imaginations of America’s youth. It’s about time that this mainstay of popular culture got her time to shine. […]

In the current cinema game, there is nothing more excellent than the Mission: Impossible franchise. Led by Tom Cruise, the casts and crews of each film dare to get bigger and push further with their stuntwork and film bravado while making audiences worldwide squeal and swoon with delight. Each successive film bears a reason to go […]

This review is for Rey, Tessie, Cristina, and Mireya Pasa – my parents and sisters – who had to put up with me whipping a jump rope like a bullwhip around our house and into the tree in our front yard. I love you so much. What an honor it is of my life to […]

The posters for The Blackening might make this horror-comedy look like a horror spoof along the lines of the Scary Movie series or something like Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th… and you’d be very, very wrong if you think that. Quite possibly one of the funniest of its kind […]

Can I go on record saying that the sequel title prefix “Rise of…” has got to go? Thank you. That said… well, here’s another Transformers movie. Sixteen years after the franchise started with Michael Bay’s big-boom destructo-fest, somehow, we’re still riveted by the notion of machines making that memorable sound while rearranging their parts into […]

Now, this is what superhero sequels should be like – a radical deepening of emotional and thematic material accompanied by enough style and visual flair to tie it all together. Sure, some of the Marvel Cinematic and DC Extended Universes (along with some other similar comic book-themed franchises) get it right from time to time, […]