Movie Review: After Earth
By Gary Dowell For the past few years, critiquing a movie by M. Night Shyamalan has been something akin to shooting fish in a barrel, with a rocket launcher. The auteur wowed viewers with his carefully crafted The […]
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Movie Review of Fast & Furious 6
By Gary Dowell A funny thing happened at the megaplexes last summer. That was when Fast Five debuted, and unexpectedly crystallized the formula of what had to that point been a very formulaic franchise. The restraints came […]
Movie Review of Star Trek Into Darkness
By Gary Dowell The latest entry into the long-running Star Trek franchise finds the series still boldly going, though not quite where no one has gone before. When the reboot movie Star Trek was released in 2009, […]
Summer Blockbusters 2013
By Gary Dowell It’s summer time, which in Texas means at least part of the next several boiling-hot weeks will be spent in a cool, dark movie theater. Here are some of the high-profile releases […]
Movie Review of Iron Man 3
By Gary Dowell A rare threequel that finds new ground to till rather than a rehash of what came before, Iron Man 3 proves that not only is there life after The Avengers, there’s still […]
Oblivion – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell Director Joseph Kosinski made a tepid debut 2010 years ago with stylish but hollow sequel Tron 2.0. There is just as much style in his latest science fiction spectacle, but at least […]
April Movies
By Gary Dowell Evil Dead: Five friends head to a remote cabin for vacation, unwittingly release an evil force, and are gruesomely picked off by it one at a time. This remake of the 1981 […]
The Place Beyond The Pines – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell A sprawling tale of fathers and sons told across generations, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines aims high, compromises rarely, and falters just a little. Cianfrance and co-scripter Ben Coccio (Zero […]
G.I. Joe: Retaliation – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell At best, G.I. Joe: Retaliation is preferable to its predecessor, in the sense that a raging hangover is preferable to a case of the bubonic plague. Originally scheduled for release last June, […]
Olympus Has Fallen – Movie Review
By Gary Dowell Die Hard in the White House with a little 24 and even some Under Siege thrown in for good measure, Olympus Has Fallen is possible the dumbest of the big, dumb, and […]