Upon walking out of the theater playing The Amazing Spider-Man, I tried to rationalize not mentioning Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy in the opening to my review. After all, as Sony Pictures and director Marc Webb have stressed since this project’s inception, the original trilogy…
The Half-Way Point of 2012: Best To Worst In Movies
Well, we’re officially half-way through 2012, as it’s finally July, and I think this is an appropriate time for a best to worst list. For this list, I’m including all 27 new releases I saw in 2012, and I urge you to…
Tyler’s Movie Review: Brave
It’s a ridiculous concept that one should hold a movie to the standards of the past endeavors of the studio making it. We don’t hold The Three Stooges to the standards ofThe Sound Of Music because they were both made by 20th Century…
Tyler’s (Early) Movie Review: Ruby Sparks
Well, it was a crazy day at the Los Angeles Film Festival and while the food options limited me to standing in the theater lobby eating a expensive concessions hotdog, it was still an amazing experience where I not only…
Tyler’s Movie Review: Rock Of Ages
One of the hardest things to adapt to the screen, besides video games, is a musical. Sure, there have been the mega successes, a la Chicago. But for every musical best picture winner there’s a Mamma Mia! starring a most likely tone deaf Pierce…
Tyler’s Movie Review: Safety Not Guaranteed
*Warning: This Review Contains Mild Spoilers* While it has certainly been a week full of blockbusters and of course I’m anticipating the many more that are coming in the next few weeks, there’s always an indie film that will usually…
Tyler’s Movie Review: Prometheus
Despite liking-but-not-loving Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien, Prometheus was easily my second most-anticipated film of the year (The Dark Knight Rises is first, of course, because nothing can trump my anticipation for that). And, it was one of my most anticipated films for a…
