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!, ...
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 ...
A Second Opinion: The Expendables 2
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 22 2012 12:31 PM
One thing that I never dreamed I would see in my lifetime is Sylvester Stallone duke it out with Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now if that doesn’t scream manly than nothing does. Thanks to The Expendables 2, I have now seen ...
Movie Review: ParaNorman
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 19 2012 10:00 AM
This fall sees the release of three ghostly children’s films and the first one rising out of the grave is ParaNorman, a gentle and amusing adventure about a lovable loner who can chat with the undead. From the makers of ...
Movie Review: The Campaign
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 12 2012 10:27 AM
Finally, a summer comedy worth laughing hard about! Funnyguys Will Farrell and Zach Galifianakis team up for a short but (really) sweet political satire in The Campaign, cleverly released just three short months before the presidential election, right in the ...
DC Comics Movie Review: Batman Begins
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 18 2012 11:12 AM
After Joel Schumacher and the money hungry Warner Bros. put the final bullet in the Batman franchise in 1997, the character lay dormant for many years at the studio, sitting on the shelf collecting dust. Every so often, rumors would ...
Movie Review: That’s My Boy
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On June 16 2012 07:28 AM
It hasn’t even been a year since comedian Adam Sandler unleashed the rotten Jack and Jill on audiences everywhere and now he’s back with That’s My Boy, an abrasive R-rated nightmare that doesn’t posses one ounce of shame. Reckless, irresponsible, ...
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On May 13 2012 07:52 AM
After the debacle that was 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, things could only look up for auteur Tim Burton. My initial reaction was not blame at Burton himself but rather was aimed at Disney, who I was certain was tinkering with Burton’s ...
