Steve Habrat

Abrams Hits Warp Speed: Star Trek Into Darkness Review

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 19 2013 09:24 AM

It has been four long years since JJ Abrams ventured into the Star Trek universe and left both die hard Trekkies and casual moviegoers hungry for more deep space adventures from the brash Captain James T. Kirk and the brilliant ...

English Class Meets Jay-Z: The Great Gatsby Review

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 11 2013 05:34 PM

It has been nearly five long years since we heard from the flamboyant Australian director Baz Luhrmann, the man behind such eye-popping spectacles like the contemporary kids-with-guns retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romero + Juliet, the gonzo jukebox musical Moulin Rogue!, ...

“We’re gonna get you…” Evil Dead Review

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On April 5 2013 04:25 PM

I think that most horror fans would agree that Sam Raimi’s 1981 ultra-low budget horror film The Evil Dead stands as one of the scariest and most influential efforts within the horror genre. The very idea of trying to remake ...

A Decade of Desperation and Suspense: Zero Dark Thirty

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On January 13 2013 11:52 AM

After becoming the first woman ever to receive a Best Director Oscar for the 2009 teeth-rattler The Hurt Locker, the world anxiously awaited to see what director Kathryn Bigelow would produce next. It turned out that the next project she ...

Off the Chain: Django Unchained

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On December 28 2012 01:51 PM

For years, Quentin Tarantino has been hinting that he wanted to make a spaghetti western. He constantly gushes about Sergio Leone’s classic epic The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (it’s his favorite film) and he even nabbed a bit ...

Times Are Tough For Gangsters Too: Killing Them Softly

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On December 9 2012 01:02 PM

I can’t really say that I’ve ever left a crime thriller with my stomach in a knot. I didn’t know it was possible for the crime thriller genre, which seems to be stuck on repeat and incapable of surprises, was ...

Argo: Bad Hair and White-Knuckle Suspense

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On November 11 2012 12:35 PM

Did you ever think that Ben “Gigli” Affleck would become a respected Hollywood director who now has three great films under his directing belt? Yeah, I would have never guessed that either, especially after also seeing Reindeer Games and Daredevil. ...

Looper: A Fresh but Flawed Science Fiction Thriller

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On September 29 2012 11:05 AM

For quite some time, I’ve been griping about the never-ending stream of recycled ideas coming out of Hollywood over the past few years. I’d say that one of the most original films I’ve seen recently is without question Christopher Nolan’s ...

Movie Review: Dredd 3D

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On September 23 2012 10:48 AM

Ever since Dredd 3D premiered at the July San Diego Comic Con, surprisingly positive word of mouth has been spreading through the internet faster than SLO-MO inhalers across Mega-City One, something that is very shocking because action films released in ...

Movie Review: Premium Rush

In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 31 2012 11:06 AM

Imagine if you removed all the muscle cars and roaring engines from The Fast and the Furious and replaced them with human stamina, sweat, spandex, and tricked out bicycles. Keep the pretty faces and the nonstop chases and you’d have ...