20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
20 Feet from Stardom is filmmaker Morgan Neville’s documentary tribute to some of the best singers in the business. No, not the ones you buy CDs for; the best singers are often the ones...
Category: 2010s
Pacific Rim (2013)
Pacific Rim is Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy 2, Pan’s Labyrinth) homage to the old Japanese films featuring Kaiju (literal translation: “strange beast”, or the Americanized, “giant monster”), which were sci-fi flicks about grotesque, building-sized creatures who...
The Heat (2013)
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig returns for another female-centric raunchy comedy and, for the most part, manages to strike gold yet again, at least in terms of generating requisite memorably funny moments. If you want an...
Monsters University (2013)
A step down from the delightfulness of Monsters Inc., but still a delight nonetheless, Monsters University may lack for the more affecting aspects of its predecessor, but taken as a fun, cute, comic film for all ages,...
Before Midnight (2013)
Let me stop those interested here by telling you that, before you read this review, that I strongly recommend watching the film first. And if you haven’t seen them, you must also see Before Sunrise and Before...
Man of Steel (2013)
Director Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch, Watchmen), Dark Knight trilogy producer Christopher Nolan and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Jumper) return Superman on the big screen, and that’s not an easy task to do for a...
The Purge (2013)
I wish there were a day every year that we, the audience, could just purge all of the memories of films like this. The premise: In the near future, the United States’ government has...
After Earth (2013)
M. Night Shyamalan’s downward spiral with critics seemingly started with The Village, only for him to respond by making himself the hero and a film critic a heavy in his next film, Lady in the Water,...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness is director J.J. Abrams’s (Super 8, Mission Impossible III) follow-up to his commercially and critically acclaimed reboot of the iconic science fiction series, Star Trek, and should largely please fans of the more...
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Tony Stark returns in this post-The Avengers outing, this time with Jon Favreau stepping down as director, with Shane Black, who directed Downey to great critical success in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, stepping in to take...