“I don’t think you should go around blaming the time machine for all your problems.”   The Scoop: 2005 unrated, Directed by David Ray and starring Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind and Jim Byrnes. Tagline:  Time travel ain’t what it used to be. Summary Capsule: A drug dealer travels back in time using an ugly recliner wrapped in [...]

“You came to me in order to be strong. I have made you the strongest.” The Scoop: 2010 R, Directed by Sngmoo Lee and Starring Jang Dong Gun, Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush Tagline: The way of honor. The way of courage.  The way of survival. Summary Capsule: Steampunk outlaw cowboys take on mortal kombat [...]

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” The Scoop: 2011 PG13, Directed by Zack Snyder & starring Emily Browning, Carla Gugino, and Scott Glenn Tagline: You will be unprepared. Summary Capsule: A young girl is committed to an asylum, and retreats into various levels of fantasy to cope. And then there’s a [...]

“Best embrace the suck.” The Scoop: 2011 PG-13 , Directed by Daniel Barnz and starring Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens and Mary Kate Olsen. Tagline: Love is never ugly. Summary Capsule: Popular, good-looking kid gets cursed with ugliness, and nothing else interesting happens for two hours.

For those who aren’t familiar with Neverwhere, or who haven’t read our review, it’s the story of a Richard Mayhew, a Scottish man living in London who helps out an injured girl on the street and ends up trapped in “London Below” for his troubles. The story chronicles Richard’s travels and misadventures through the long forgotten tunnels [...]

“You are really messing with my zen thing, man!” The Scoop: 2010 PG, Directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner and Jeff Bridges Tagline: The Game has Changed. Summary Capsule: Young man gets zapped into a digital world where everything is apparently made of glass while looking for his long-lost [...]

“Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it.” The Scoop: 2010, PG-13, Directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jason Schwartzman Tagline: An epic of epic epicness. Summary Capsule: Boy meets girl, boy dates girl, boy battles girl’s seven evil exes in increasingly awesome duels to the [...]

It was long ago, before the dark times, before the empire. It was back when we were innocent, comic books only cost seventy-five cents, and MTV was actually a channel where they showed music videos as opposed to an endless parade of stupid jerks on reality shows. The idea of a movie based on a [...]

You can complain all you want about the subversive nature of the language and violence in the film, but none of that will matter the first time you see Hit Girl take out roomful of dangerous thugs to the tune of a punked-up version of the Banana Splits theme song.

In the ever- shifting and evolving realm of film and television, it’s comforting to know that one thing will always remain constant: People beating each other up = entertainment …and it’s not as if there’s anything wrong with that. The essence of drama is conflict after all, and the payoff of conflict is confrontation. Whether [...]