It's no secret that I'm a fan of G.I. Joe: The Rise...
(2) Comments | Posted March 27, 2013 | 12:40 PM
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If taken at face value, Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen is pretty much morally indefensible. Written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, the film...
(0) Comments | Posted March 20, 2013 | 3:44 PM
I wrote several weeks ago about how something released this year or perhaps last year might be a signal for the future of the...
(6) Comments | Posted March 19, 2013 | 11:12 AM
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I think it's terrific that Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio has come out in support of gay marriage. I think it's notable that he came to...
(4) Comments | Posted March 14, 2013 | 2:32 PM
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
2013
100 minutes
Rated PG-13
Among its many other faults, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone makes a solid case for the old 'television is better than the movies' argument....
(26) Comments | Posted March 11, 2013 | 3:04 PM
Unfortunately pretty much everything I feared about Oz: The Great and Powerful, right from the second trailer, turned out to be...
(12) Comments | Posted March 10, 2013 | 1:02 PM
(0) Comments | Posted March 8, 2013 | 10:06 AM
Up until the very end of the picture, Dead Man Down is a mostly serviceable crime drama. It has fine work from Colin Farrell...
(3) Comments | Posted March 4, 2013 | 6:08 PM
For more like this, go to Mendelson's Memos...
There are $200 million fantasy spectaculars opening within two weeks of each other at the moment. If...
(57) Comments | Posted March 3, 2013 | 11:22 AM
(1) Comments | Posted February 28, 2013 | 11:13 AM
Park Chan-Wook's Stoker is a delicious hybrid of its influences, which mix into an engaging fable of its own. Written by Wentworth...
(115) Comments | Posted February 27, 2013 | 1:57 PM
That so many were so outraged this morning is precisely the point. Satire at its best highlights the lesser parts of society, using amplification to reflect it back at us and make us take notice of our own behavior. Those decrying The Onion, a satirical newspaper, for running an offensive...
(8) Comments | Posted February 24, 2013 | 1:01 PM
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Writer/director Ric Roman Waugh and writer Justin Haythe's Snitch (trailer) operates on two levels. On one hand, it's a pulpy and...
(105) Comments | Posted February 19, 2013 | 7:38 AM
By Scott Mendelson
For a retrospective of the entire series, go HERE.
As my father...
(0) Comments | Posted February 13, 2013 | 1:51 PM
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Comic Books for Boys, Young-adult Literature for Girls: On the Coming Blockbuster Tent-pole Gender Divide...
(12) Comments | Posted February 9, 2013 | 9:38 AM
This is something I've touched on here and there, but here we are in 2013. I've been waiting with baited breath for awhile to see what the 2013 movie release schedule bring. Will the pattern I've long...
(4) Comments | Posted March 28, 2013 | 11:02 AM