Movie Reviews

by Sandra Olmsted Guillermo del Toro brings many of his unique touches to Pacific Rim, such as memories playing an important part in how the characters react. Raleigh Beckett (Charlie…

By Sandra Olmsted Just in time for the weekend, here’s a recap of the new movies in theaters now. Despicable Me 2 Directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud and screenwriters…

It has not been a stellar movie season of yet, but if the viewers can get to right movie for them, than they can enjoy something out of the summer…

By Sandra Olmsted At the center of Epic is relationship between Mary Katherine, or "M.K." (Amanda Seyfried), a teenage daughter who comes to live with her father (Jason Sudeikis) after…

by Sandra Olmsted Somewhere Will Smith, director M. Night Shyamalan, and maybe even Jaden Smith are rethinking a number of choices made during production of After Earth. On paper maybe…

By Sandra Olmsted For good or ill, Star Trek: Into the Darkness, director J.J. Abrams latest foray into the deep space of reinventing Star Trek for a new generation heavily,…

by Sandra Olmsted In the new installment of the Marvel franchise, questions of whether Iron Man aka Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is anything without his suit and of whether…

By Sandra Olmsted Oblivion In Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, which kicks off the summer blockbuster season, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) works as high-tech drone repairman on the abandoned…

by Sandra Olmsted Director Brian Helgeland’s bio-pic, 42, chronicles Jack Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) crossing the color line to play in the white Baseball  (National) Leagues of post-WWII America. Although Branch Rickey (Harrison…