During the somewhat interesting life this column has led, I’ve featured some movies that it seem have come right out of left field. I pride myself on the fact that I have a diverse pallet when it comes to films, but todays featured movie may be the biggest shocker I have ever...

It appears I spoke too soon. Just yesterday I had put up an article about how great the marketing for Godzilla was going. I talked about how waiting to release the complete image of the mighty monster was the smartest decision a marketing team had made in years. Way to prove...

Yesterday, February 25th, the first official full-length trailer for the movie "Godzilla" was released, and the reaction to it has been nothing short of monstrous. People everywhere, including myself, are freaking out in excitement over the latest glimpse of the great tyrant,...

Who didn’t love playing with Legos as a kid? It’s pretty much a right of passage for any elementary school-aged child to pick up the iconic bricks and build whatever they please. It’s an outlet for creativity, imagination, and awesomeness, but how do you capture all of...

In general, you can’t go wrong with coming of age stories. Such is the case with the 2013 film “The Kings of Summer.” The story of three teenage boys who abandon their lives with their unbearable parents to live alone in the woods, “The Kings of Summer” will undoubtedly...

A little while back I was lucky enough to find one of those smoking hot movie deals that come in the form of packs. Any situation where I can get multiple movies for $5 is a good situation. It's even better when the movies are actually good. Lucky for me, I found myself in that...

USA! USA! USA! You can’t help but cheer it after watching the new Mark Whalberg flick, “Lone Survivor.” Based on a true story, “Lone Survivor” follows a group of Navy Seals who must make their way through the Afghan wilderness on a mission known as “Operation Redwing”...

The words “Some of this actually happened” are the very first thing you will see upon watching “American Hustle”. If you think about it, it’s a brilliant way to open a fictional biopic: it’s quirky, it’s dry and it’s very upfront. In many ways, “Some of this...

“Saving Mr. Banks,” released in December 2013 tells the untold story of the making Walt Disney Pictures classic, Mary Poppins.  Staring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, the film focuses around the controversy between author P.L. Travers and Walt Disney regarding the creation...

In my "Best of 2013" list I had added a sub-list of 5 other movies to look for as the year comes to a close. So far I’ve seen 3 of the movies on the list: "Anchorman 2", "The Hobbit Desolation of Smaugh" and the "Wolf of Wall Street" (and one not on the list, "American Hustle")....