Category Archives: Movie Reviews

Captain America: First Avenger director Joe Johnston met the challenge of adapting the adventures of superheroes with the most patriotic touch to make a film uninhibited and having his own style. It is difficult to describe the theme of this … Continue reading →

We all know a Peter Parker, bitten by a radioactive spider, became Spider-Man or Bruce Banner, a scientist exposed to gamma rays that will forever change his life as a worse human. However, the first to have undergone a transformation … Continue reading →

Jake Lonergan wakes up in the middle of the night, without having to remember anything: neither his name nor how he came to this place, and certainly not why he wears this strange metal band. In the next place he … Continue reading →

If nothing else, Saw is proof that you can make a professional-looking film without a lot of money. Purportedly shot for a paltry $1 million, it nonetheless features a potent atmosphere, a polished sense of confidence, and a marquee of … Continue reading →

More than any comic-book franchise, the Blade films are dependent upon their leading man. Though other creative forces make their presence known (particularly in Guillermo del Toro’s superior second installment), this has always been The Wesley Snipes Show. The title … Continue reading →

In his horror treatise Danse Macabre, Stephen King sums up the problem that comes with revealing the monster lurking behind the door in a horror movie: what’s behind the door is never as frightening as the door itself. As the … Continue reading →