Movie Review: Lazer Team (2015)
A blast of raw entertainment, without the artistic input of mainstream Hollywood.
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Movie Review: The 5th Wave (2016)
“I miss the Cassie I was. I wonder what that Cassie would think of me now — the Cassie who kills.” The introductory voiceover for The 5th Wave is certainly not typical of your run-of-the-mill PG-13 fare, but unfortunately, that’s where the non-similarities end. The first act of the film introduces Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace…
Movie Trailer: Star Trek Beyond (2016)
If by chance you thought the Star Trek series, after “Star Trek Into Darkness,” was going to switch gears and focus less on explosive action sequences and more on the spirit of discovery, don’t watch this first teaser trailer for Star Trek Beyond. Paramount Pictures has doubled down on the action instead, going so far…
Movie Review: Pixels (2015)
Critics (and others I suppose) have been gunning for this film, Pixels, long before it hit the big screen and not without good reason. First of all, anything with the name “Adam Sandler” attached to it pretty much means movie disaster. Recent examples include “Just Go With It,” “Bedtime Stories,” “Jack and Jill” and the…
Movie Review: Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Transformers: Age of Extinction is fascinating. Not in a good movie kind of way. Not even in a bad movie kind of way (although, make no mistake, it is positively atrocious). It is fascinating in that it feels as if it were the result of an experiment to see what a diagnosed sociopath would turn…
Movie Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Edge of Tomorrow drops us into the middle of a war against an alien invasion as much as it does its protagonist, Major William Cage (Tom Cruise). We don’t know how or why these aliens invaded, and we don’t see the world react to their initial arrival, already making the film differ from the majority…
Movie Trailer: Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
We knew Dinobots were going to make an appearance in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction, so seeing one of them involved in a bot battle in the first trailer is no surprise. What is a bit of a surprise is the now adversarial relationship between the Autobots and humans. It’s gotten so bad…