There are 142 explosions in this movie and Sylvester Stallone's eyebrows never move.  Not even a little bit.  I'm not sure what kind of plastic surgery he's had, but I'm sure it was extensive.  If you took all the goatees worn in this mo...(read more)

The Other Guys takes place in the "buddy cop movie" universe: two super bad ass cops bring down the bad guys amidst gunfire, explosions and millions in property damage.  The premise here though is slightly different, the twist being when the two s...(read more)

Those confused by "Inception", Christopher Nolan's dark, dream hit of the summer, might find their heads spinning around the halfway mark of Salt, the latest Angelina Jolie- spy vehicle.  Even though everything is neatly resolved by the end (perha...(read more)

I recently saw Elia Kazan's "Baby Doll"(1956) for the first time.  In it, a morally bankrupt, sadsack businessman is so desperate to win the affection of the woman he loves that he commits an unsavory and malicious act which later comes back to ha...(read more)

"Have you ever noticed how you can never remember how a dream begins?", asks Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) of Ariadne (Ellen Page).  Every dream starts in the middle, says he.  In Inception, it's entirely possible everything is a dream (or even th...(read more)

A group of military types are air-dropped into the middle of a jungle, and must solve the mystery of why they're there.  Actually, Adrien Brody's character solves the msytery almost immediately.  From then on (minus a brief interlude with a p...(read more)

Adam Sandler attempts to combine a pastiche of human interest with his usual brand of broad humor, but all he winds up with is an ambiguously genial comedy.  There's only so much niceness one can take from these old SNL comedians.  Sandler pl...(read more)

Pixar's "Toy Story" franchise really strikes a chord in the hearts of its fans.  It's easy to identify with the toys and their abandonment issues, as well as the human aspect of growing up from childhood to adulthood.  This time, the filmmake...(read more)

From the team that brought us the National Treasure movies (Jerry Bruckheimer, Jon TurtelTaub, Nicolas Cage), comes a movie so implausibly silly, it makes National Treasure look like "Death of a Salesman".  It perhaps would've been more suitable t...(read more)

Horse-sized dogs watch vampires practice fighting karate as the sounds of techno music play in the background.  Well, I guess that's something you don't see everyday.  This time, Twilight feels a little more like an actual movie and less like...(read more)