Monster Madness: Pacific Rim Review
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 12 2013 03:18 PM
These days, it is extremely difficult and rare for a major Hollywood studio to take a creative risk, especially during the hot and humid summer months when audiences turn out in droves. The suits fall back on time-tested franchises, overdone ...
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!, ...
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: The Watch
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On August 3 2012 10:47 AM
What do you get when you put Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Jonah Hill in the same movie? Apparently, an extremely mediocre product with a flabby screenplay and a small handful of memorable chuckles. The Watch is the newest comedy ...
Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 20 2012 09:51 AM
It is finally here, folks! One of the most anticipated films of all time is finally crashing into theaters and everyone is dying to know if it lives up to the sky high expectations that have been set by critics, ...
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 ...
DC Comics Movie Review: Superman Returns
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 16 2012 11:41 AM
I’ll never forget the jolt of excitement that I felt when I first saw the Superman Returns teaser trailer, the one with Marlon Brando’s Jor-El commanding the speakers and explaining to Kal-El why he has sent his only son to ...
DC Comics Movie Review: Superman II (1980)
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On July 12 2012 01:52 PM
If action fans were turned off by Richard Donner’s 1978 slow burner origin story Superman, they will find tons to enjoy in Richard Lester’s breathless action extravaganza Superman II, the controversial follow-up to the original film. Pitting the Man of ...
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
In Movies | By Steve Habrat | On June 24 2012 11:15 AM
In the past few years, many critics and horror fans have complained about the sorry state of the vampire genre, which has embraced soap opera melodrama, bloodless confrontations, and abstinence. To me, vampires are not overly emotional, glittery-skinned models who ...
