Killers (Review)

Ladies and gents, the first sure-fire awards contender of 2010 has landed! It’s called Killers and it’s going to take the Golden Raspberries by storm.

If you thought the similarly themed Knight and Day was bad, wait till you see this vacuous spy comedy from The Ugly Truth director Robert Luketic. Killers sees Luketic take a desperate swing at genre after genre in a hope he [...]

Clash of the Titans [2010] (Review)

I don’t think it was particularly unreasonable of me to assume that in Clash of the Titans — a remake of the 1981 stop-motion epic that has aged about as well as everything from the 80s — there was going to be a few instances where Titans would, in fact, clash. It turns out I was expecting too much; not once does the film live up to its title. And the disappointments don’t end there.

The Bounty Hunter (Review)

After weeks and weeks of sordid speculation by all major celebrity glossies, gossipists the world over can now contain themselves with the knowledge that any steamy romance between Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston was either non existent or just not at all hot. I say this to you now in review of the couple’s efforts in their new film The Bounty Hunter, the latest rom-com to fall off the Hollywood production line and be shot into the air [...]

Law Abiding Citizen (Review)

Unlike its nasty sibling revenge, justice is not a dish best served cold. It’s better served with nuance, decorum and a dash of smarts. Now try telling that to screenwriter Kurt Wimmer and director F. Gary Gray of Law Abiding Citizen.

Rather than being up front about being a ultra-violent revenge thriller, Citizen smugly believes that it’s smarter than your average B-movie and is more inclined to consider itself a sharp legal thriller, à la The [...]

Invictus (Review)

Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi got his own Hollywood biopic. So did legendary French heroine Joan of Arc, gay rights politician Harvey Milk, sporting great Muhammad Ali, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara…heck, even gangster rapper 50 Cent got one.

So why is it that Nelson Mandela — a man who served a 27 year jail sentence in South Africa before being elected President of the nation that imprisoned him – gets his Hollywood biopic thrown in with [...]

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Review)

Be sure to leave your brain at home when seeing G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, as this one’s solely for the eyes and ears. On second thought, leave them behind as well; Stephen Sommers’ (The Mummy, Van Helsing) live-action take on the popular toy franchise is a lively, yet tedious, assault on the senses. I say ‘live-action’ with a pinch of salt, given there’s hardly anything living in sight; 95% of G.I. Joe is made up of [...]