The opening episodes of "Iron Man 2" are gripping, in holding us in anticipation, gripping especially during Tony Stark's spectacular entrance where he is to deliver a speech at his grand expo on his outlook on world peace. Current world peace won't last because there are cutaways to a number of questionable evil characters....(more)

Get ready for a battle between kings and gods, mortals and immortals in an action spectacle that impacts you with a thunderbolt. "Clash of the Titans" is Greek mythology updated, with a sense of verve and excitement , for 21 st century action-hungry audiences, but it keeps its criteria mission and objective in order: to tell a grand centuries-old story....(more)

Two extraordinary things happen in the otherwise stomach-turning teen romantic melodrama "The Last Song", the latest Nicholas Sparks book-to-screen adaptation. One of them is that Kristen Stewart with her excessive eyebrow-twitching is no longer the worst actress in Hollywood which can now belong to Miley Cyrus and her endless pouting....(more)

The gags splash left and right non-stop in "Hot Tub Time Machine", but the gags do just that – they make you gag. Low brow humor is expected when you have such a knowingly cheesy title with the aspirations of a Farrelly Brothers' brain fart....(more)

The Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan ranges from mysterious and tantalizing entertainments to polemics that are laborious and impenetrable, but with "Chloe" he has simply made the most entertaining film of his career. If sex, deception, paranoia and the forbidden are objects of cinematic interest, then here's a movie that is good enough to have come out in the Fall instead of in Spring....(more)

The word staggering is an odd double-sided one that can be used in two ways. The first way reminds me of when I discovered the mind-expanding films of Oliver Stone in my youth, or what I felt like after Darren Aronofsky's first couple of pictures that I found so visually sensational that experiencing them became an out of body experience....(more)

"She’s Out of My League" is an adorable sad puppy of a movie, something that keeps you laughing and sighing in disbelief. Jay Baruchel, as über-dork Kirk, is the hero with the sad eyes who doesn’t have much experience but he does have a monster ex-girlfriend that he is trying to get back with....(more)

The unstable region of Baghdad following March 19, 2003 is the subject of "Green Zone," the new Iraq military drama which has an action movie pulse and the presence of stalwart Matt Damon, playing Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller who is a man of sweat and non-stopping motion. Following the initial military strikes of Iraq of the invasion date, Miller’s team is unable to find any weapons of mass destruction on mission searches....(more)

Extravagant, but missing that precious quality that connotes that thing called enjoyment. That’s the gut reaction to "Alice in Wonderland....(more)

If you are one who says that you have discerning taste then by all means avoid "Cop Out." This is the crappiest film in awhile to feature major stars, in this case action movie icon Bruce Willis and TV star Tracy Morgan, crappy and horrendous in every way that a movie can be horrendous....(more)