The Avengers (2012)
Many of the Marvel franchise titles have, as according to plan, come together to pit the all-star team-up of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes against a massive force to (hopefully) save the humanity from perpetual enslavement....
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published April 30, 2012 · Last modified July 4, 2018
Many of the Marvel franchise titles have, as according to plan, come together to pit the all-star team-up of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes against a massive force to (hopefully) save the humanity from perpetual enslavement....
by Vincent Leo · Published April 27, 2012 · Last modified February 27, 2019
The Brothers Grimm classic gets dusted off yet one more time, the first of two Snow White adaptations done in 2012 alone (Snow White and the Huntsmanbeing the other). The story starts with the...
Before the completion of Poltergeist II, MGM made plans for a third entry. As both Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams were paid exorbitantly to return for the second feature, but neither actor was...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 11, 2012 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) delivers his usual highly-stylized, incoherent visual masturbation all over this somewhat gory sword-and-sandal epic, cranking up the computer-generated display at the expense of such things as interesting plot,...
In Time is a film which surmises a near-future in which time is the commodity that is traded among people in order to do such things as ride a bus, pay their rent, or buy...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 19, 2012 · Last modified February 6, 2020
In this return after over a decade to the big screen by Jim Henson’s much-beloved creations, the long mothballed Muppets Studio in Hollywood becomes threatened with destruction at the avaricious hands of a greedy...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 13, 2012 · Last modified February 21, 2019
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the man responsible for such greats as Sex Lies and Videotape, Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Traffic, this is one of his earlier works, and falls under the “Hidden Gem” category for you seekers...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 12, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2021
Ryan Reynolds plays rookie CIA agent Matt Weston, reluctantly stuck in a dreary, boring assignment looking after an empty safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. When his locale is used as the interrogation...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published February 5, 2012 · Last modified May 27, 2019
Directed by first-timer Josh Trank, this Max Landis (son of famous filmmaker John Landis) scripted story mostly follows the plight of Andrew Detmer (DeHaan), a troubled teen who is bullied at school, abused by...
by Vincent Leo · Published January 29, 2012 · Last modified August 8, 2018
Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Thirteen, Ocean’s Twelve) directs, giving a starring role to MMA fighter and former participant on “American Gladiator” Gina Carano, a novice actress with an intense physical presence and prowess, this retro-vibed thriller...
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