Apparition | USA | 118 min

By the traditional definition The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is not a good movie, but as the last few years have taught us with films like Crank, Gamer, Crank 2, Bad Boys II, and most recently Ninja Assassin, sometimes that traditional definition does not apply. Writer/director Troy Duffy has delivered a film that packs a punch of stylized violence and offensive yet still comical (in their own sadistic way) one liners to make anyone who was already a fan of the brothers happy and anyone who was on the fence have an enjoyable experience with the movie. However, anyone who despises the first film will not find anything that will change their opinion of The Saints. Read the full story

Warner Brothers | USA | 115 min.

I am still living in the enjoyable world of Donnie Darko when it comes to writer/director Richard Kelly. But after seeing his latest film, The Box, the film adaptation to Richard Matheson’s short story Button, Button, which Kelly adapted himself, I am beginning to fear that he’s never going to be able to achieve that level of filmmaking again. While The Box does deliver on the classic confusion aspect that the young director is so well known for, and does look pretty good doing it, much of the film is left unanswered and becomes intolerable.

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Woody Allen marks his return to New York with a worthy welcome that recalls back to his earlier films. Whatever Works certainly won’t go down as a great Woody Allen film, but it’s charm is too irresistible to ignore. It falls alongside the minor Allen films, failing to reach the heights of his earlier landmarks.

The film revolves around a sharp-witted New Yorker named Boris Yellnikoff, played by Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm). Boris prefers a life of isolation and despises mostly everyone he meets. One day on his way home Boris finds a young beautiful southern girl named Melodie laying by his apartment. Boris decides to take the young girl in and they soon become friends. Boris becomes infatuated with Melodie and the odd couple decide to get married. Later on they discover they must suffer the burden of Melodie’s dysfunctional parents-who seem to despise Boris.

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Moon is one of the most refined science fiction films of the 21st Century. Its a visual feast filled with intriguing themes, ideas, and it even conveys a heartfelt friendship. It is a dramatic character study that uses science fiction as a back drop for the story.

The story centers around astronaut Sam Bell who has been on the moon for three years working to supply earth with it’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. Sam Bell has been suffering with loneliness and stress, and his only companion is his loyal computer friend Gerty. Two weeks before Sam Bell gets to return home, he starts seeing things that may or may not be real.

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The Hangover is without a doubt one of the funniest movies of the year. It’s a gut busting comedy that is consistently hilarious. It is not just a gross out road trip comedy, rather a fun, sharp comedy stacked with memorable moments and characters to love. This may not be a great comedy, it certainly has problems, but its miles better than most comedies released now a days (except for Apatow produced films).

The story revolves around three friends named Stu, Alan, and Fil. Two days before there best friend Doug’s gets married the four of them decide to head out to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. Stu, Alan, and Fil wake up the next morning with no memory of the events of Doug’s bachelor party and Doug is missing. With no idea of Doug’s whereabouts, the three of them set out to retrace there steps to find him in time for his big wedding.

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Pixar has delivered a true classic adventure that is both heartfelt and uplifting. Up is filled with joy, sadness, and suspense as it tells one of the most dramatic stories to grace the screen in recent years. No characters have ever been so authentic in an animated film before.

Up revolves around Carl Fredricksen who has spent his whole life hoping to explore the world and to live grand adventures. Now at age 78 Carl feels as if has unfulfilled this life long dream and decides to finally take on a new adventure by traveling to South America. He’s accompanied on his journey with the persistent boy scout Russell who soon shows Carl sides of life he has never seen before. While on their grand adventure they become close friends who must strive through the many mishaps they encounter on their journey.

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This weekend the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise Terminator Salvation was released, but has received an extremely negative response. The film is currently tracking at 34 percent over at Rotten Tomatoes. Skeptics have been calling it “dumb” and they say it lacks “depth”. If you’ve read my review then you know that I rather enjoyed it and found many aspects of the film to be quite impressive, most notably and surprisingly McG’s direction. The lackluster response not just from critics, but also a few members of the fan-base comes off illogical and hypocritical.

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Angels & Demons surpasses the lackluster 2006 The Da Vinci Code in almost every way, and yet it still finds itself in the category of mediocrity. It’s a continuous escapade of non-stop explanations and blandness, and lacks the excitement it strives for.

After the murder of a physicist, professor Robert Langdon (Hanks) embarks on an adventure to uncover a terrorizing society, The Illuminati. With the help of scientist Vittoria Vetra (Zurer), they are lead all throughout Rome, trying to track down an assassin who works for the Illuminati and has kidnapped four cardinals. Robert and Vittoria also must hunt down a stolen device that could cause mass destruction to not just the vatican, but to the surrounding area of Rome.

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