Rock of Ages is pure camp, celebrating and lampooning the music that inspires it. 100% solid gold [cue music] power ballads, rock anthems, 80′s pop classic, all sent up, re-imagined and mashed together to embellish and empower the story of a country girl (Julianne Hough as Sherrie Christian) looking for her big break in LA as a rock star. The film lives somewhere between Grease (1978), Moulin... 

Prometheus is a multi-layered, fascinating, visually-stunning sci-fi masterpiece. Ridley Scott channels his inner Stanley Kubrick to realize an intelligent, yet exciting and visceral, thrill-ride. The film resides very much in the Alien universe Scott launched in 1979 but it is also very much divergent from that film and its themes. With Prometheus, Scott transports the audience to another world, another... 

Two scientists (Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green) are leading an expedition to a far off planet after getting the basic inspiration from several cave paintings they’ve discovered in Scotland. Followed by a boatload of crewmembers, the two of them find mysterious artifacts and controls left behind by an alien race that could potentially hold the keys to finding out the sordid and fascinating... 

Snow White and the Huntsman is an exhilarating, visually splendid and surprisingly mature adaptation of the Snow White fairy tale. The film is rich in tone with amazing special effect and esquisite locations, from the fabled mirror on the wall to the castles and forests to the costumes and creatures. Absolutely stunning. Emotionally, however, the film has little to offer beyond the surface conflicts... 

Chernobyl Diaries is a film out of place. While it takes topical modern themes like fear of radiation and fear of isolation, it plays them out in a conventional manner with a only a tinge of the found footage approach typical of the works of its producer, Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity, The River). Set within the fictional representation of real life events surrounding the Chernobyl disaster, the film... 

This Memorial Day marks the return of the blockbuster Men in Black franchise after a ten-year absence from theaters. Of course, when a new entry in a series comes along, it’s only natural to revisit the older ones. So, warning folks, potential spoilers below. If you haven’t seen the first movie, go watch it! If you haven’t seen the second one… good for you. Men in Black is a film that manages... 

The Dictator follows the ruler of the fictional North African Republic of Wadiya named Admiral General Hafez Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), a man-child who spends most of his days basking in his opulence, even if the rest of the world considers him a war criminal. Yet, he is forced to go speak in front of the United Nations in order to prevent an airstrike against his country. While there, his supposedly... 

Dark Shadows is an uneven horror comedy that is neither scary nor entirely funny but manages to be entertaining despite its many flaws. Frequent collaborators, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp reunite once again to bring Dan Curtis’ cult soap opera “Dark Shadows” (1966-1971) and its lead character Barnabas Collins to the big screen. Seth Grahame-Smith, the writer of “Pride and Prejudice... 

Ever since the success of Iron Man in 2008, the Marvel Universe movies have been building to a point: The Avengers. With each individual character movie finding massive success, the idea of combining the characters into a team became even more of an enigma: how do you take four characters who have triumphed in their own pictures (as well as two supporting players) and combine them into an ensemble... 

Marvel’s The Avengers is extraordinary, a monumental accomplishment of super heroic proportions. Director Joss Whedon has done the impossible, bringing together four independent franchises (Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America) into a single cohesive whole. The Avengers is a better film with the heroes together than any single film with the each hero standing alone. It is quite a remarkable...