Movie Reviews

Review: True Grit

Rating: 9/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: After her father is murdered, young Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires an aging U.S Marshall, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to help her bring the killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) to justice. REVIEW: Believe the hype. TRUE GRIT is an...

Review: Tron: Legacy

Rating: 8/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Twenty years after Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears, his son Sam (Garret Hedlund) finds himself sucked into a mysterious computer world, ruled by CLU, his father’s doppleganger, who rules with an iron fist. Forced...

Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Rating: 5/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: With their older siblings in America, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes), stuck in WW2-era London, are forced to seek shelter with their disagreeable cousin Eustace Scrubb (Will Poulter). During an argument over an old painting, Lucy...

Review: The Tourist

Rating: 5/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Frank (Johnny Depp) is an American tourist taking a trip through Europe, while trying to mend a broken heart. One day, he crosses paths with an elegant beauty named Elise (Angelina Jolie) who seems to take an instant liking...

Review: The Fighter

Rating: 9/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: The true story of boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who at age thirty-one, became an unlikely champ under the tutelage of his brother, Dickie (Christian Bale), a former contender-turned-crack addict. REVIEW: Who doesn’t love a great film about...

Review: The Tempest

Rating: 7/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: In this film adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play, the role of the usually male magician Prospero is played by Helen Mirren. She’s former royalty who’s brother plotted to have her banished, along with her young daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones)....

Review: Tron: Legacy

Rating: 7/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Arcade owner Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) disappeared at the pinnacle of his success, leaving his young son Sam (Garrett Hudlund) alone. After receiving a pager message, Sam finds his way into the data stream and finds his father working...

Review: Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2010)

Rating: 0/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Atop a large mountain in Finland, an excavation team has dug up a most unlikely discovery: The frozen body of Santa Claus. Not the holly jolly Santa we know from movies and cartoons, however. This is the Real Santa,...

BOOK REVIEW: “Knuckle Supper” by Drew Stepek

Rating: 0/10

Posted 16 years ago

The Heroin Addicted Gangster Vampire Novel. That’s how KNUCKLE SUPPER is described via it’s official website. I went into this book knowing exactly that, that it was about a heroin addicted gangster vampire.. and that’s all. Enough to grab my...

Review: Black Swan

Rating: 9/10

Posted 16 years ago

PLOT: Ballet dancer Nina’s (Natalie Portman) life is consumed with her art. She’s smothered by her overbearing mother (Barbara Hershey) and spends every waking moment striving for perfection. When the head of the dance company (Vincent Cassel) needs to replace...

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