Movie Review

By Ethan Harmon Last year gave us a plethora of fantastic movies, from the explosive, chaotic Avengers to the dirty, bloodbath that is Django Unchained. It was a year full of anticipation, suspense, action, adventure, […]

By Gary Dowell With the riveting, compelling, and unshakably haunting Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow proves her historic Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker was no fluke. She takes the heightened realism of that movie one […]

By Gary Dowell – comments@blitzweekly.com There’s half of a good movie scattered throughout Jack Reacher; unfortunately, it’s overwhelmed by the half that’s not so great. Produced with the intent to kick-start a franchise, it’s so […]

By Gary Dowell – comments@blitzweekly.com Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech) extravagant movie adaptation of the long-running musical version of Victor Hugo’s tale of the haves and the have-nots, is systematically big, loud, splashy, and melodramatic […]

By Fil Chapa – chapa71@yahoo.com When a film dealing with the hot button issue of illegal immigration first opened in the early 1980s, critics widely condemned Oliver Stones’ stereotypical depiction of immigrants and overuse of […]

By Gary Dowell www.movieink.net When The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring arrived in theaters in 2001 it marked a watershed moment in film: It was the first big-budget live action fantasy […]

By Joyce Alexander comments@blitzweekly.com “Lincoln” teaches us important lessons about history. It shows us that the past is not a far-away land filled with sweeping grandeur and quirky localisms. The by-gone days described in our […]

Freddy on Films Forget that the dismal misstep of Quantum of Solace ever occurred. Totally wipe it from history. The old 007 is back. First time Bond director Sam Mendes takes you on a non-stop […]

The Man with the Iron Fists Review Written by Ethan Harmon Anyone who is a fan of rap will tell you that the Wu Tang Clan is one of the best groups that the genre […]