By Bob Garver Director Baz Luhrmann is known for his excessively modern takes on stories from other eras. His most popular is film is 2001’s “Moulin Rouge”, a pop musical set in 19th-century Paris. He’s also the visionary behind the bizarre 1996 version of “Romeo and Juliet”, a film that proves just how awkward Shakespeare’s […]
By Bob Garver “Iron Man” is probably the most lucrative superhero franchise in Hollywood. Nolan’s “Batman” series is sadly done, the “Spider-Man” reboot was hardly Marvel-ous, and I’m not convinced that Zack “Sucker Punch” Snyder can sell this generation on Superman in the upcoming “Man of Steel”. The real powerhouse is of course “The Avengers”, […]
By Bob Garver I was prejudiced against “Oblivion” since about a week before it opened. A friend of mine got to see the movie in advance and left after the first half hour. At around the thirty-one minute mark, I was jealous of my friend. It’s not a terrible movie in that “clearly a bomb” […]
By Bob Garver The ads for “Evil Dead” claim that the film is the scariest you will ever see. This is untrue unless you almost never see horror movies, in which case why would you want to see a movie called “Evil Dead”? The ads also claim that the film is the bloodiest you’ll ever […]
By Bob Garver Here’s a brief rundown of my thoughts from 2009’s “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra”: I’m dreading this movie. I still haven’t recovered from that awful second “Transformers” movie from a month back. Or that awful first “Transformers” movie from two years ago for that matter. Wait, this isn’t so bad. Sure it’s a […]
By Bob Garver Longtime readers know that I have a soft spot for animated movies. Sometimes when I go on a streak of bad reviews, people will ask me if I ever praise anything. I’ll point to some delightful animated films and then those people will roll their eyes and say, “Okay, besides them”. I […]
By Bob Garver This past weekend saw an upset at the box office as “The Call” became the weekend’s most successful new release, beating out the star-studded but formulaic magic comedy “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”. Maybe it was just my relief at not having to review that bomb, or maybe it was the excitement of […]
By Bob Garver I was talking with my mom the other day and we agreed that 1939’s “The Wizard of Oz” was my first favorite movie. When I was a toddler I would make her impersonate the characters for hours on end, I owned toy models of all the characters, my first Halloween costume was […]