‘My Week with Marilyn’ Movie Review

If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed […]

Movie Review: Fright Night

After his film re-debut in the comedy “Horrible Bosses” (which I enjoyed very much), Colin Farrell  comes back with a vengeance in “Fright Night” in 3D, a remake of the 1985 horror film. If you haven’t seen the 80s film don’t fret; at 15 years old back then I didn’t either, and this is probably […]

Movie Review: “Cowboys and Aliens” is spacey escapeism.

First, I have to issue a disclaimer. I was one of the lucky 2,000 who won tickets to the premier of Cowboys and Aliens at Comic-Con in San Diego, Ca. where director Jon Favreau brought out his latest film along with the big guns to this small city. Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, executive producers Steven […]

Movie Review: Justin Timberlake Overexposed in “Friends With Benefits”

Could there be too much Justin Timberlake? That's what you'll see in his latest film “Friends With Benefits”– a whole lot of JT and his very fit physique. For a guy who's not supposed to be working, he's getting around; back-to-back films, MySpace mogul, Comic-Con 'geekerati', military-ball date, and who knows, maybe he'll write his […]

Movie Review: “HORRIBLE BOSSES”

The dark-comedy movie trend continues with Warner Brother’s release of Seth Gordon's “Horrible Bosses.” Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day are paired up once again (“Going the Distance”), and led by Jason Bateman in this big-boy comedy about three friends, Nick (Bateman), Kurt (Sudeikis), and Dale (Day) at their wits end at work. The three-guy “Hangover” […]