The Avengers – film review
For decades superhero movies have been hit or miss and always disconnected from each other. The rights to each character were sold separately…
Category: Movie reviews
Reviews of films and direct-to-video works, including anime (excluding television series).
Iron Man 3 – film review
I enjoyed Iron Man 3. It is the last of the Iron Man trilogy, though they do promise us more from Iron Man…
After Earth – film review
After Earth promises a lot and doesn’t completely deliver on all of it (as seems to be the norm lately for director M.…
Epic – animated film review
Epic is a 2013 animated action adventure fantasy film directed by Chris Wedge. It is based on the childrens book The Leaf Men…
Discovery by Daft Punk and Interstella 5555 by Leiji Matsumoto – album review
Discovery by Daft Punk is a 2001 album which was animated into a short science fiction film (about 62 minutes) titled Interstella 5555:…
9 – film review
9 is the directorial debut film of CG animation newcomer, Shane Acker. The film is an adaption of Acker’s UCLA senior thesis short…
Wreck-It Ralph – animated film review
Wreck-It Ralph is an animated film from Disney, part of the new wave of the “Pixar method” of film-making: story is king. Period.…
Oblivion – film review
Oblivion is a science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, and Andrea Riseborough. It is…
Oz the Great and Powerful – film review
An origin story for the “Man behind the Curtain,” Oz the Great and Powerful was a flawed but very enjoyable film. Visually, this…
The Iron Giant – animated film review
The Iron Giant (loosely based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by England’s poet laureate Ted Hughes) is set in the 1950’s…
Secret of the Wings – film review
Secret of the Wings is a 2012 release from DisneyToon Studios directed by Bobs Gannaway and Peggy Holmes. It received limited release in…
Looper – film review
It’s 2074 in Looper. Guys use their telekinetic abilities to float coins to impress chicks, the future looks like a war ravaged, poverty…
The Croods – film review
The Croods is the latest work from Dreamworks Animation. The film is co-directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders and stars Emma Stone,…
Time Traveller – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – film review
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, is a Japanese science fiction film, the fourth based on the novel The Girl Who…
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – anime film review
Once upon a time there was a book. It was called The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Published in Japan in 1967, and…
Condorman – film review
Condorman is a film I remember fondly from my childhood. It’s a spy thriller with some science fiction bits and it stars Michael…
Children Who Chase Lost Voices – anime film review
Children Who Chase Lost Voices is the most recent release from anime film director Makoto Shinkai, following on his films Voices of a…
The Secret of Kells – animated film review
The Secret of Kells is an animated film set in and around the Abbey of Kells in County Meath in Ireland. It is…
Jack the Giant Slayer – film review
Jack the Giant Slayer is a fantasy action-adventure film starring Nicholas Hoult (recently a zombie in Warm Bodies) and directed by Bryan Singer.…
Warm Bodies – film review
Warm Bodies is an unexpected gem. It’s a romantic comedy zombie apocalypse film from director Jonathan Levine and based on the novel of…
Life of Pi – film review
Life of Pi is a dramatic, fantastical, survival adventure film from director Ang Lee and based on the book by Yann Martel. While…