'Hop' Review: The Easter Bunny Lays an Egg
While the world's desperate cries for more sequels to 'The Santa Clause' go unanswered, Universal Pictures brings us the next best thing: the same basic concept, changed to the Easter Bunny, mixed...
View Article'Your Highness' Review: A Half-Baked Tale of Might, Magic and Mary Jane
If you're the kind of role-playing gamer who attempts to have sexual intercourse with every random NPC you come across, then 'Your Highness' was made specifically for you. This is the...
View ArticleWhat Is 'Bridesmaids' About? Is It Funny?
With all the buzz surrounding the female-led comedy 'Bridesmaids,' it's probably easy to predict just what kind of funny audiences are in store for. After all, it's produced by 'Knocked Up' and...
View Article'The Hangover Part II' Review: What Happens in Bangkok, Happened in Vegas
After the Wolf Pack came out of nowhere in the summer of '09 and turned into the stars of the highest-grossing R-rated comedy in history, it was only a matter of time before they returned for another...
View ArticleWhat Is 'The Tree of Life' About?
The fifth film in four decades from iconoclast director Terrence Malick, 'The Tree of Life' has critics split and audiences struggling to know what to make of the art-house epic. If it won the Palme...
View Article'X-Men: First Class' Review: Setting the Bar for a Superhero Summer
After two good movies and two that might be best forgotten, here we are at the fifth entry in the 'X-Men' franchise, 'X-Men: First Class.' As the second of three Marvel movies coming out over the...
View Article'Midnight in Paris' Review: The Best Kind of Tourism Any City Could Ask For
Right in the midst of a blockbuster spring filled with superpowers, Spandex and wizards at war, the new Woody Allen movie was the last thing any of us expected to defy the odds, garner rave reviews...
View Article'Green Lantern' Review: Lots to Look At and That's About It
As we've been mentioning in a whole bunch of these reviews, this summer the movies belong to the superheroes ... or, rather, Marvel's superheroes. Between 'Thor,' 'X-Men: First Class' and 'Captain...
View Article'Mr. Popper's Penguins' Review: Ace Ventura + Farting Penguins = Family Fun
Who could have guessed 20 years ago that the guy who played Fire Marshall Bill would end up entertaining our kids as one of the most family-friendly faces in Hollywood? Yeah, Jim Carrey's sure come a...
View Article'Conan O'Brien Can't Stop' Review: Coco Unleashed in All His Bearded Glory
Now that Conan O'Brien's got himself a show again and Jay Leno's back doing God knows what on 'The Tonight Show,' one almost forgets what life was like just over a year ago when The Ginja Ninja...
View Article'A Better Life' Review: Giving a Voice to People Worth Hearing
With all the hullabaloo over illegal aliens these past couple years -- a subject on which everyone seems to have an opinion, but there is very little agreement -- leave it to filmmakers to give us...
View Article'Bad Teacher' Review: Could Have Been Badder, Could Have Been Funnier
Thanks to the likes of Ed Rooney, Dolores Umbridge, Mr. McAllister and many other epically awful instructors, the national education system has made going to the movies an outright blast over the...
View Article'Conan O'Brien Can't Stop' Review: Late Night Host Needs Laughs, Will Travel
You can't keep a good man down. Or apparently, a good talk show host. The biggest takeaway from 'Conan O'Brien Can't Stop,' a behind-the-scenes documentary about the red-bearded late night host's...
View Article'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2' Reviews: Catharsis and a Damp...
Calling all wizards, witches and muggles: The last installment of the Harry Potter franchise arrives July 15, and while we mere mortals have to wait till then to view the final battle between good and...
View Article'Horrible Bosses' Review: So Close to Making First-Degree Murder Hilarious
If you've ever worked a job in your life, chances are you've wanted to kill your boss at some point. Maybe it's his big head that gets in the way of that promotion he promised you, maybe it's her...
View Article'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2' Review: A Muggle Couldn't Ask...
Seven books, eight movies and nearly 10 whole years later, the 'Harry Potter' films have come to an end. Oh yes, it's been quite the journey with good ol' Harry and we've dished out an ungodly amount...
View Article'Attack the Block' Review: If Only Every Alien Invasion Were This Awesome
First we had kids making nice with big bad aliens in 'Super 8,' then we had some buckaroos breaking out their lassoes and wrangling 'em some outer-space invaders in 'Cowboys & Aliens', and here we...
View Article'Cowboys & Aliens' or 'Attack the Block': Which Genre-Bending...
We're no strangers to watching movies that sound exactly like other movies, but it's pretty rare that we get to watch them on the same weekend. Chances are you've already heard about 'Cowboys &...
View Article'The Change-Up' Review: Insanely Crude, Totally Unoriginal and Absolutely...
There's a decent chance that you've seen a body-swapping movie at some point. It doesn't matter how many times they beat this premise into the ground, there will always be someone in Hollywood to...
View ArticleDoes James Franco Lose an Arm During 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'? (And...
On Friday, a 'Planet of the Apes' movie will be available at a theater near you. It's the seventh one, actually, so perhaps you're excited already? Then again, the last one probably came out before...
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