Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Peter Quill (Pratt, The LEGO Movie) was a young boy in 1988 when he was abducted by an alien spacecraft flying overhead. He has spent the next few decades working as a ‘junker’ as part of...
Author: Vincent Leo
Get On Up (2014)
Great music and performances are likely enough to please most viewers who enter into a biopic about a famous musical act, but they’re not necessarily enough to take things to the next level of...
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
The first The Purge had been one of the surprise hits of 2013, earning $64 million on a $3 million budget. What it had was its interesting concept. What it lacked was the budget to really...
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Charlton Heston (The Omega Man, Tombstone) stars as American astronaut George Taylor, who is returning back to Earth from a mission that has aged them six months, though many years have actually passed on the...
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
It’s becoming more difficult by this fourth entry in the Transformers series to criticize it when it delivers exactly what its fans expect, namely, incessant explosions, sparkly bits, gratuitous cheesecake, and a plot and dialogue written...
Annie (1982)
Annie is a musical that has become a fan favorite for those who grew up watching it, though film critics in general have remained rather tepid toward it, citing that it is overblown and clunky. ...
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
In what will likely go down as my personal pick for the most disappointing film of 2014, given my lofty expectations going in, How to Train Your Dragon 2 takes just about every character I grew...
22 Jump Street (2014)
Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) are back, moving to the Vietnamese Church across the street as their new base of operations for their undercover narcotics unit. This time, they’re going to portray themselves as...
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Tom Cruise in another big-budget science fiction vehicle that’s not easy to readily separate from one of his other recent releases (Oblivion, War of the Worlds, Minority Report), but don’t let its familiar premise or generic...
21 Jump Street (2012)
The thought of yet another classic TV show being remade as a modern-day spoof doesn’t exactly fill a savvy moviegoer with delight, as most have been misfires that missed the mark by making little...