The year is 2079 and a convicted felon who answers only to his surname, Snow, is the only shot the Secret Service has to free the President’s daughter from a hostage situation aboard a space prison full of the worst of Earth’s criminals.  He has limited time, an ulterior motive and a sarcastic wit.   If you are thinking I meant to say Snake Plissken is the only shot they have, your confusion... 

Shark Night 3D is set in Louisiana under the premise of college coeds spending a party weekend at a lake (swamp) house. You have your cast of usual suspects including the jock, the princess, the pretty frat boy, the serious student, the geeky wanna-be, the promiscuous girl, the local Barney Fife sheriff and backwoods locals. Feel like familiar territory? It is. I am always forgiving of familiar... 

Final Destination 5 is full of vaguely familiar faces and a 100 percent predictable storyline and formula. Do we really even need to recap it? Yes? Well okay… people destined to die escape at the last minute, cheating death. Death doesn’t like to be cheated and the phantom specter comes for the escapees in the order they were originally intended to die. You don’t see Final Destination films... 

Bad Teacher won’t be winning an Academy Award; however, if you are looking to cool your heels and get out of the summer heat for a few hours, it’s worth the six bucks. It’s a typical formulaic comedy (with a slightly dark slant to it) where bad people often end up doing good things, sometimes even in spite of their actual intentions. The movie follows Elizabeth Halsey (Cameron Diaz) a middle... 

Fast Five looked to be a fun movie with a great cast, lots of action, familiar faces, fast cars and a proven franchise formula. While I enjoyed the film in general, I wanted to like it much more than I actually did. Instead of the anticipated high-energy street-racing scenes, we are presented with a heist movie, a la Gone in 60 Seconds meets Ocean’s Eleven. As a matter of fact, the only scenes... 

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night should also be knows as Dylan Dog: Sam Spade Lite. The writers try very hard to give this comic book based horror comedy a Film Noir feel, but the lack of gritty cinematography and shadowy low-lit shots coupled with the narrative dialogue falling a little short of the mark in the wit department, results in failure. This is a clumsy film, unsuccessfully marrying serious content... 

The Conspirator is the first release by Robert Redford’s The American Film Company, a production company dedicated to making historically accurate films. Who wouldn’t want to be in a Redford film? This is evidenced by the excellently ensembled cast that includes Robin Wright (Penn), James McAvoy, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Justin Long, Colm Meaney and Evan Rachel Wood. The focus is on Mary Surratt... 

Beastly, a contemporary interpretation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, is a feel-good film whose moral is as timeless as the story itself – true love is blind. Our stricken “beast”, Alex Pettyfer, doesn’t sprout fur or grow claws. He does not become an animal with a wicked temper or a rumbling growl. He isn’t frightening in the traditional sense. But as in the original...