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  • ‘Cloud Atlas’ Leaves You in a Fog

    ‘Cloud Atlas’ Leaves You in a Fog

    October 26, 2012 at 10:44 pm

    This review is like getting six movies for the price of one. It’s nearly a three-hour mind-bender they may just leave you scratching your head. Six major plot lines taking place over 500 years — featuring the same actors playing multiple roles — is what you get with “Cloud Atlas.” All of the stories are crosscut together, jumping back and forth from one another across different time periods ranging from a 19th century South Pacific sea voyage to the distant [...]

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  • Paranormal Activity 4 is more trick than treat

    Paranormal Activity 4 is more trick than treat

    October 19, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    If you enjoy watching characters sleep while their furniture moves around them, I have just the movie A Nevada family plays host to a very odd 6-year-old neighbor boy whose unseen mother has suddenly been hospitalized in Paranormal Activity 4. A group of young unknown actors jump into the Paranormal Activity formula without a hitch. The long stretches of green night-cam footage manage to make your creep you out as you try to figure out if you just saw movement [...]

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  • Argo is timely, topical, and thoroughly entertaining

    Argo is timely, topical, and thoroughly entertaining

    October 12, 2012 at 10:37 pm

    Six Americans are rescued from Iran in 1980, true story, and now the real life drama is a movie, and a good one at that ! November 4, 1979 a large group of Iranians storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran taking 52 Americans hostage but, six americans did escape. The story about how those six made it out is the set up for the film “Argo”. The six find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. That’s when CIA [...]

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  • Frankenweenie is Frighteningly good

    Frankenweenie is Frighteningly good

    October 5, 2012 at 10:34 pm

    It’s funny, adventurous, creepy, and even sentimental and with it being in black and white AND 3D, I think it’s going to be a hit. It’s part Frankentstein part Lassie but somehow director Tim Burton makes it work in this stop-motion animation simply called “Frankenweenie”. It’s the story of a young boy (Frankenstein) who uses all his talents to bring back his beloved dead dog. There are a lot of references to old horror movies all wrapped up in a [...]

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