Movie falls short on premise, technicalities When the White House (Secret Service code name Olympus) is captured by terrorists and the president is kidnapped, a disgraced former presidential bodyguard finds himself with the country’s future on his shoulders. As the national Read More

Go along on the world’s first family road trip The Croods is a prehistoric 3D comedy adventure that follows the world’s last cave family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. The movie tells the story Read More

Halle Berry phones in a thriller Director Brad Anderson’s new film, The Call, stars Halle Berry as a Los Angeles 9-1-1 dispatcher and Abigail Breslin as a teenage kidnap victim whose call for help reaches Berry. Veteran 9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) takes a teenage girl’s Read More

Typical Drunken Comedy This movie is your typical drunken comedy centered around a night of excessive alcohol. Written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, writers of “The Hangover.” Substitute a 21-year-old for a bachelor party and a med school interview for a wedding and Read More

Playing for Keeps Note:  Gerard Butler takes his shirt off…frequently.  I thought I would include that in case you wanted to stop reading and buy your ticket.  Much like ‘The Bradley Cooper Effect’, I would watch anything that included a shirtless Gerard Butler.  But, I digress… Read More

The Bradley Cooper Effect I have factors that dictate whether or not I should  watch a movie.  Bradley Cooper is one of those factors.  Shirtless preferred, but not necessarily required.  Allowable substitutes include:  Channing Tatum, Chris Hemsworth or Jeremy Renner. With that, Read More