If you have ever played/watched the video game Prince of Persia, you know that it is a lush-looking sandbox game with various devices for clambering around the medieval streets of Persia, picking up stuff, and getting into fights. A unique do-over aspect of the game manages to wend its way into the plot of this [...]

Did you see Spy Kids? Sky High? Kick-Ass is most assuredly not those movies. I expected some comedy, some teen angst, some great stunts, and I got them. Oh yes, I got them. I did not expect mob bosses, crazed double crosses, intense and squibbulous violence, a classic revenge plot, and a pretty decent little [...]

The one unknown entry in the Oscar category of Best Animated Feature, The Secret of Kells is a twinkling gem of a movie that should be overlooked no longer. The marketing artwork makes it look no more substantial than that egregious Snow White sequel Happily Ever After, but this movie is much, much better than [...]

O, what benevolent god has finally paired Steve Carell with Tina Fey – two huge, crushable comedy icons, likable and pulchritudinous! Alas, who has written them a vehicle that on the surface seems like a sure thing but in execution, achieves so little with their epic potential? You may be surprised to hear that the [...]

While Hot Tub Time Machine presents itself as a retro-tripping raunchfest like H.O.T.S. meets The Hangover, in actuality it has a lot more of the sort of sweetness that existed in those 80’s teen raunchfests it lampoons. Like Snakes on a Plane, you want to see Hot Tub Time Machine because of its simple titular [...]

Dreamworks has been hit and miss for so long with their animated movies that I am always hesitant to be optimistic when I see them. Dragon was more than just watchable, it was great, a real winsome, fun, sweet movie. Jay Baruchel (Tropic Thunder) voices Hiccup, a puny runt in a village of strapping Vikings [...]

Nope, it’s not the car one. Nor is it the bizarre musical version with the similar premise. This is a straight-talking, incredibly violent action-drama about dudes who reclaim artificial organs when the buyer defaults on their payment plan. On the surface, Repo Men is just a gory sci-fi excuse for some close-quarters knife fights (never [...]

Gregory (Zachary Gordon), the lead and narrator of this film, starts the movie out with a cheer, uncomfortable fakeness, near to the unlikeable stench of Disney Channel sitcoms. My spirits sank, thinking I was about to endure a feature-length The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Before long, though, the film’s self-consciousness shook itself off [...]

In March 2003, all of America was worked up into a lather – half slavering to bomb Iraq and the other half struggling to restrain the first half. On the ground, soldiers did what they could and the facts trickled slowly into our consciousness back home. Green Zone benefits from seven years of hindsight and [...]

Leaving aside that this is a French film with subtitles, when you settle in to watch it, you first feel as if you’re indulging a precocious nephew’s elaborate and logic-impaired make-believe. A lower-tech stop motion even than Robot Chicken, A Town Called Panic’s characters are common children’s toys, complete with green bases and sloppily manufactured [...]