Houston, this is Apollo 18. We Have a Malfunction – Movie Review
by Stefan Abrutat If I had suspended my disbelief any further it could’ve become permanently disabled (I’m not sure how this condition of zero disbelief would manifest itself, of course (for some...
View ArticleMovie Review: We’ve Seen it All Before – Contagion
by Stefan Abrutat Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’ve seen it all before. But not like this, we haven’t. Ocean’s 11/12/13 director Steven Soderbergh delivers the smartest movie to address a worldwide pandemic to...
View ArticleStar Wars Blu-ray The Complete Saga Edition Review
by Stefan Abrutat Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Star Wars fan, just not a frothing, gibbering, Lucas-is-a-Genius type of fan. I don’t go to conventions or dress up as Darth Maul (although I have been known...
View ArticleMovies You May Have Missed: Source Code, Paul, and TrollHunter
by Stefan Abrutat It’s rare a decent movie gets by me; I pay too much attention to the movie press and sites like Ain’t it Cool News and Rotten Tomatoes. My obsessive need to entertain myself (or...
View ArticleA Remake of The Thing?!
by Stefan Abrutat It’s difficult to consider the movie experiences I treasure from my youth may now be so dated the decision has been made to remake them. For a random example, one of my favorite...
View ArticleMovie Review: Real Steel is Surprisingly Good!
by Stefan Abrutat I’m still not sure how exciting boxing would become if humans were replaced by eight foot tall robots. After all, without real danger, what’s the point? It seems to me that the sport...
View ArticleThe Thing: Exacerbating the Worst Prequel Trend
The 1982 John Carpenter’s version of The Thing has gone down in movie history as the very definition of an Antarctic alien horror movie. This new prequel documents what happens at the Norwegian station...
View ArticleMovie Review: In Time Doesn’t Quite Deliver
The adage “time is money” was never more aptly used than in writer/director Andrew Niccol’s new offering In Time. Justin Timberlake stars as Will Salas, an inhabitant of a dystopian world were time...
View ArticlePlanet of the Apes 2?
One of the biggest movie surprises of the year was Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Director Rupert Wyatt took what could have been a mercilessly exploitive rip off from the established yet dated...
View ArticleThe Avengers and Joss Whedon
With an impressively hefty budget of $220 million, Disney and Marvel are taking a considerable swing for the fences on a single film. The Avengers, the superhero movie to end all superhero movies,...
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