May 15, 2010

When I’d heard that Ridley Scott was redoing Robin Hood, I’d wanted to predict it as one of the best films of the coming summer season. I can admit when I am wrong. Assuming that Ridley Scott would add some necessary grit to what should be a down-and-out story of a man standing up against the government, this 2010 remake still plays out with all of the...

May 6, 2010

It may as well have been digression and comic book foreplay flying around in the red and gold in Iron Man 2 because it wasn’t the action-packed Tony Stark you may be used to. In this long awaited sequel we see the billionaire defense contractor decked out in metal attire lounging atop a donut shop, slush drunk at a party and raving it up at his own year-long...

May 3, 2010

Sometimes you know exactly what’s going to happen with a movie. Sometimes you’re dead wrong. With the new A Nightmare on Elm Street I was not proven wrong. Months ago when I saw the trailer for this remake with Jackie Earle Haley (you know him as Rorshach from Watchmen) playing the time-honored, blade-fingered horror villain Freddy Krueger, I was...