Impressively casted and conceptualized, Contagion manages to infect its audience’s attention from the very beginning. The film stays away from the histrionic conflict involving central characters and the plot focuses on the obvious [...]
Hey, I'm Ryan Michaels, a 14-year-old writing movie reviews for Heritage Newspapers. I've been doing it for three years, and enjoy it a lot. Here's my review of "Contagion." In my time as amateur film critic and f [...]
As you watch the title song of Ali Abbas Zafar's 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan', you would have a sense of deja vu - Imran Khan doing the popular Salman towel dance, followed by DDLJ-like running after the train and hopping in [...]
One brother is a teacher who struggles to keep home and family together in hard economic times. The other is a brooding brute, home from the war, living with his long-estranged father. Both grown men have daddy issues, issues hinted at in [...]
“This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” So states T.S. Eliot in “The Hollow Man,” demonstrating that Mr. Eliot was not only a [...]
Review in a Hurry: Hot coeds and a lake full of hungry sharks, all popping out at ya in 3-D should be an easy win. We loved last year's awesome Piranha 3D, and really wanted this movie to have bite. Something's off though, since i [...]
I grew up in that great period in the history of cinema known as the Seventies. The movies of that time had more of a fierce independence about them, and if the ratings board found something offensive about them, they were rated according [...]
Yes, there’s the saying, “nice guys finish last,” and that’s certainly the case for Our Idiot Brother‘s Ned (Paul Rudd) quite often, but when you’re considering movies, nice movies can get a bit of a bo [...]
This much-anticipated Guillermo del Toro-penned remake is a project you really want to like. But… …the end result, as co-scripted by Matthew Robbins and directed by Troy Nixey, eventually wastes all the benefits of all th [...]
Like a 5 a.m. alarm — loud, insistent, unwelcome — "Conan the Barbarian" warns that the dreamy summer is coming to an end. A re-make of the loopy 1982 sword-and-sandals classic — loosely based on Robert E. Howa [...]
As we’re drowning in a flood of big screen remakes, we ask ourselves time and time again; is it worth it? In Fright Night‘s case, yes. As we’re drowning in a flood of 3D features, we ask ourselves time and time again; is [...]
In most people's eyes, Arnold Schwarzenegger is Conan the Barbarian. And, no, it's not because of his barbaric act of cheating on his wife. It's because the guy who would later become the Terminator made his Hollywood breakthr [...]
Haven’t we all been wondering how those apes from Planet of the Apes came to take over the Earth? Well I've got good news my friends: After years of uncertainty, it looks as though Hollywood is finally ready to start answering o [...]
While it's not generally thought of in the same breath as franchises like Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, few horror film series have had the staying power of Final Destination. While most peter out or go the direct-to- [...]