MOVIE SYNOPSIS Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger (Chris Hemsworth) as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor and Marvel’s The Avengers, Thor Continue Reading
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Movie review: “Sleepwalk With Me”
What is it you really want out of life? Sleepwalk With Me, a 2012 indie comedy written, directed by, and starring standup comedian Mike Birbiglia (it’s based on his one-man off Broadway show), and from the producers of This American Life, attempts to answer that question, obscured as it is Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “R.I.P.D.”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Directed by Robert Schwentke (Red), R.I.P.D. centers on dead cops who work for the “Rest in Peace Department,” with Ryan Reynolds playing Nick Walker, a newly deceased cop and Jeff Bridges taking on the role of his partner, a seasoned R.I.P.D. veteran. The film also stars Mary Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Admission”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in director Paul Weitz’s comedy about an uptight Princeton admissions officer who encounters a teenage prodigy who may be her long-lost son while recruiting students from an alternative high school. Years ago, Portia Nathan (Fey) quietly placed her newborn son up Continue Reading
Trust me, everyone needs a “G.B.F.”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS The bitter fight for supremacy between a school’s most popular girls takes an unexpected turn when Tanner (Michael J. Willett) becomes its first openly gay student. As they race to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, Tanner must choose between skyrocketing popularity Continue Reading
LEGO toys around with “Iron Man 3”
We are a mere week away – a week my friends! – from Iron Man 3 blasting onto our cinema screens and LEGO have joined the promotional fray with their playful interpretations of already released movie posters. There will of course be a specially designed line of building blocks, Continue Reading
Movie review: “Oblivion”
Is it possible to be alive and yet not truly be fully conscious of who you are? Or to lose some crucial part of yourself on the journey through life and not even be aware of it? These rather grandiose but nonetheless basic questions are at the heart of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Stuck in Love”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Three years past his divorce, veteran novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) can’t stop obsessing over, let alone spying on, his ex-wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly), who ignominiously left him for another man. Even as his neighbor-with-benefits, Tricia (Kristen Bell) tries to push him back into the dating pool, Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The Way Way Back”
FILM SYNOPSIS THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming-of-age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an Continue Reading
“Warm Bodies” (movie review)
Life is a tricky thing. Wondrous yes but profoundly difficult to navigate at times and that’s if you’re alive and completely aware of who you are and what makes you, you. R (Nicholas Hoult), who we meet at the start of Warm Bodies, a film written and directed by Continue Reading