— by JESSIKA OWENS — Do you know what really irks me? When you see a trailer for a movie and literally all the funny parts are in the trailer. Lucky for all involved, this is not the case with “The Heat.” If ever a movie had high expectations from me, it was this one. [&helli[...]
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Review: Elemental
— by BEV QUESTAD — Three stories of crisis are personified by three eco-warriors fighting for the elements of our global environment: water, earth and air. The first story features Rajendra Singh, a water conservationist and crusader for a clean Ganges River. The deadly filth of the Gang[...]
Review: Halfway to Hell
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — So far, it’s been an amazing summer. “Fast and the Furious 6” broke a box office record, coming in the fourth highest grossing film for Memorial Day weekend, and “Iron Man 3” is the first solo superhero film to cross $1 billion at the box office. Depen[...]
Review: After Earth
— by ADAM DALE — Infamous director M. Night Shyamalan is returning to theaters with “After Earth,” a sci-fi adventure that fits into his known repertoire, but with his credibility to make good movies on the decline for the past decade was it wise for the studios to trust him with suc[...]
Review: Now You See Me
— by ADAM DALE — If there is one form of entertainment that really needs to be seen in person to get the full effect, I would say that it would have to be magic shows. If you see it on television, where it was prerecorded, then your first instinct is to think that what […][...]
Review: The English Teacher
— by RON WILKINSON — Julianne Moore plays Linda Sinclair, a high school English teacher in the small town of Kingston, Pa., who is almost believable as the town spinster (she has a problem with uncontrollable sexiness). Unmarried and seeking refuge in her job, her apartment and her two c[...]
Review: Shadow Dancer
— by RON WILKINSON — It is 1993 in Belfast and the Irish Republican Army has not yet been brought to the table. Although voices within the movement are calling for peace, the hardliners hang on, and they hang on hard. They have been forged into the most ruthless fighting force in the wor[...]
Review: Fast & Furious 6
— by ADAM DALE — Not many action franchises can tout an impressive six films over 12 years as “The Fast and Furious” can. While every entry in the franchise might not have been a highlight — and some even fell short of being decent movies — this franchise has made many of[...]
Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
— by ADAM DALE — It has been four years since J.J. Abrams “Star Trek” debuted and the eventual sequel to the hit has finally landed in theaters. “Star Trek Into Darkness” is using the same hit formula that worked for the franchise’s reboot, as well as adding a multitude of new [...]
Review: Deceptive Practice
— by BEV QUESTAD — A stocky man tears up a piece of paper into tiny little pieces that flake to the ground. Then a little white butterfly flutters out of his hand. He picks up a slick deck of cards and fans them out in patterns. After shuffling a half dozen times he picks […][...]
Review: Iron Man 3
— by ADAM DALE — Just as Marvel’s “The Avengers” was the culmination of a long and very thought-out process in Marvel’s Phase One, “Iron Man 3” is the effort of a lot of hard work over the past six or seven years, starting with the casting of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. [...]
Review: Louder Than a Bomb
— by BEV QUESTAD — If high schools put the same insane competitive energy they put into basketball and football into … well, let’s say poetry, what would it look like? You’d have tryouts to even get on the team. There would be determined coaches, individual drills and after-school [...]