'Star Trek Into Darkness' a thrilling ride

I find myself faced with a bit of a conundrum. In order to fully describe the new movie Star Trek Into Darkness and truly give my detailed thoughts about it, I would need to reveal massive amounts of spoilers. Now there's likely only 5% of the intended audience that doesn't already know...

Star Trek fans prepare for 'Into Darkness'

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a look at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 14.      Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave dramatically through the story as one...

'The Great Gatsby' style over substance

Based on one of the most famous novels in the history of American Literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 masterpiece The Great Gatsby, Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann's (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!) latest exercise in visual bombast is certainly a feast for the...

Your weekend movie guide

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has in store for us this weekend.      The Great Gatsby An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is lured into the lavish world...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday May 7.      Jack Reacher Photo: Contributed After a sniper kills five people in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police arrest a man named James Barr, a former army sharpshooter, who asks them to contact Jack Reacher (Tom...

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

There's a reason why the 6 films that have been released thus far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have grossed nearly $4 billion worldwide. Simply put, when done right, superhero films rock. These movies tap into that nostalgic feeling that we had as kids growing up and reading the comic...

Iron Man 3 blasts into cinemas tonight

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a look at what the cinema has in store for us this weekend.      Iron Man 3 Marvel's Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday April 30.      Silver Linings Playbook Life doesn't always go according to plan. Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything - his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and...

'Pain & Gain' more pain than gain

Director Michael Bay has garnered a reputation for being a soulless filmmaker. One just has to look at some of the films he's made over the years like Armageddon, Bad Boys, Pearl Harbor and Transformers and you can see that he tends to make overblown, bombastic movies without a trace of...

"The Rock" set to deliver 'Pain & Gain'

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a peek at what the cinema has in store for us this weekend.      Pain & Gain Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a regular bodybuilder who works at the Sun Gym along with his friend Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie). Sick of...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

Photo: Contributed New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday April 23.      Gangster Squad Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the...

Visit 'The Place Beyond the Pines'

It has been about three years now since director Derek Cianfrance made a bit of a splash with his raw, emotional, award winning film Blue Valentine. He showcased an ability to write his characters with an abundance of depth as they exhibited much pain and heartache. Once again he re-teams with...

'Oblivion' less than stellar science fiction

The last original science fiction film that Tom Cruise starred in was Steven Spielberg's amazing, mind-bending thrill-ride known as Minority Report (War of the Worlds was a remake so that doesn't count). That film was thought provoking, action-packed and always engaging. Cruise's...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday April 16.      Django Unchained Photo: Contributed Set in the antebellum south of 1858 a former dentist, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), buys the freedom of a slave, Django (Jamie Foxx), and trains him with the...

'42' a grand slam crowd pleaser!

There's no question in my mind that Jackie Robinson is one of the most important people in the history of sports. His plight transcended the game of baseball. Not only did he become a symbol of hope, courage, fortitude and tolerance, but he essentially pioneered the civil rights movement,...

Celebrate Jackie Robinson's legacy in 42

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a look at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      42 This bio-pic tells the story of two men - the great Jackie Robinson and legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey - whose brave stand against prejudice forever...

New out on DVD/Blu-ray this week

New out on DVD/Blu-ray for Tuesday April 9.      Hyde Park on Hudson In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt...

'Evil Dead' a gruesome, gory letdown

Generally speaking I'm not the biggest fan of remakes, especially when the film is one that is near and dear to horror fans hearts such as Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead. I was skeptical, to say the least, when I first heard about this project, but started to become encouraged...

Evil Dead vs. Jurassic Park 3D

Greetings movie lovers, it's time to take a look at what the cinema has to offer us this weekend.      Evil Dead Five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in...