BioShock is seriously one of the greatest games ever made. The whole thing plays out like a well scripted novel, and immerses you in its world to where you actually feel like you’ve been and visited Rapture. That, and the joy it brings to catch a grenade in mid-air only to launch it back at [...]

Normally when a film leaves me cold, I tend to shy away from thinking about said picture. If I must, I’ll ponder the film and realize that I’d just seen a film I wanted to like, but had ultimately witnessed something mediocre or worse. Walking out of Inglourious Basterds, I recalled the same feeling as [...]

My first introduction to Margarita Levieva came with this year’s Adventureland. She played the sultry Lisa P. and perfectly captured that one girl every single guy wants to get with but realizes isn’t what they want. Right now Margarita is currently tearing up the screen with Spread where she plays Heather, a waitress whom Nikki [...]

Many will label Adam a romantic comedy, but that moniker is incorrectly applied. While laughs are present, writer and director Max Mayer plays it (correctly) as a drama rather than a comedy. Truthfully, there’s nothing funny about a man struggling through life with a mental handicap, and unfortunately Mayer might be criticized for doing such [...]

Midway through District 9, this viewer witnessed something slightly different than what was happening on-screen. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was zapped into oblivion while Star Trek was blasted through some shacks. Terminator Salvation and Angels & Demons where blown to smithereens, The Hangover and The Proposal ran when they saw Pelham 1-2-3 massacred as Transformers: Revenge [...]

G.I. Joe, where have you been all summer? Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and X-Men Origins: Wolverine failed to deliver the kind of mindless, entertaining fun that summer so often brings while everything else outside of Star Trek has been more concerned with being artistic than enjoyable. It’s strange, scribing those sentences and the ones [...]

Paper Heart is the quirky indie film most of its ilk want to be. The flick delivers enough quirkiness only to reel itself back in when it feels overloaded, while maintaining its message. It’s aware when enough is enough, and hopes we accept the gimmick it presents. Even with its gimmick, the filmmakers know they [...]

An unwritten rule of film is that movies are either made or broken by their twists. If you really want to get down and dirty, M. Night Shyamalan’s career is a good example of this (two were fine, the rest were all atrocious). There are times when a film doesn’t need a twist in order [...]