Thor (review)
I knew it! I knew Kenneth Branagh was a geek. Oh, sure, he got famous for all that snooty Shakespeare stuff, but deep down, he’s mad for comic books and superheroes and all that pulp-fiction stuff. He’s a dork.
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The Green Hornet (review)
He doesn’t exactly kick ass: he is an ass. Life as a masked crime fighter with some slick wheels to groove him around town is not the chick magnet he imagined it would be…
Red (review)
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (review)
It’s *Twilight* for boys…
Jonah Hex (review)
If Jonah Hex can talk to the dead, then he’s probably the only one (apart from Ned the Pie Man) who could have any meaningful interaction with this movie.
Iron Man 2 (review)
This is the metric by which I ended up measuring *Iron Man 2*: By the time it was over, did I actually *want* to see it again this weekend with my geek gang? And the answer ended up being Yes…
The Losers (review)
A wickedly wonderful little smashup of fluff…
Kick-Ass (review)
Clearly, Dave Lizewski has never read *Watchmen,* or seen the movie…
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (review)
Ah, Mr. Fanboy. I’ve been expecting you. What, you thought sneaking into my fortress in the dead of night was your idea? Fanboy, you disappoint me with your lack of guile and imagination…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (review)
Sometimes junk food is soul food, and sometimes junk movies are yummy and satisfying (and never mind the bellyache later).
