by Jeff Michael Vice | May 22, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In his big-screen comedy career, Adam Sandler has been paired with everyone from Jennifer Aniston (2011’s Just Go With It) to an obnoxious kid (1999’s Big Daddy) to his comedian-actor buddies (the two Grown-Ups films, 2010 and 2013) to himself (2011’s Jack and Jill,...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 21, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
Bryan Singer kicked off the X-Men movie franchise with a pair of high-concept action-thrillers (in 2000 and 2002) that used the beloved Marvel Comics characters and concepts as a way to confront and address xenophobia and homophobia, something the comics’...
by Sean Axmaker | May 17, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Home Viewing, What's Hot
Remakes have a tendency to revive interest in the originals, at least as far as the studios are concerned. They roll out new editions rolling on disc and digital streams in anticipation of interest and the new Godzilla has no shortage of ancestors: 28 Japanese...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 15, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In terms of its focus, Million Dollar Arm is lot more like Jerry Maguire (1996) than it is like The Rookie (2002), or even Slumdog Millionaire, an Oscar-winning 2008 drama that, on the surface at least, it would seem to have a lot in common with. And that’s a shame,...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 13, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
While it remakes the original Godzilla film (the mid-’50s classic King of the Monsters!) to a certain degree, the more obvious comparison for the new Godzilla is to Pacific Rim, last year’s science-fiction/action-thriller that also featured giant-sized monsters...
by Jeff Michael Vice | May 8, 2014 | Editor's Picks, Reviews, What's Hot
In Dr. Frankenstein fashion, Neighbors attempts to graft large portions of Parenthood (the original, 1989 movie version) onto similarly large portions of National Lampoon’s Animal House, the 1978 hit film that really popularized the raunch comedy genre. Or to be more...
