It’s officially the summer movie season and Iron Man definitely starts things off with Grade-A Bang Bang. Thomas and Rafe offering their views on the third picture in the Marvel franchise (or seventh picture if you want to count all of the Avenger tie-ins). From there, it’s a look through the coming summer months as we talk about what’s coming out: what has caught our eye, what we... 

Yes, the gaps between episodes are growing – something we address in the first few minutes of the show. Hopefully we’ll get that sorted out soon, but otherwise we’ll produce episodes as we can. Don’t worry – we’ll have a big blowout if we ever decide to call it a day (it won’t happen silently). In the meantime, we catch up over reviews of G.I. Joe: Retaliation... 

I’ve been trying to get this rebooted column kicked off for a while now and this year’s football extravaganza has finally given me the motivation to do so. So welcome to the new trailer park, where we gather the latest trailers and commercials to hit the web and give you our opinions on how interested we are in the movies they promote – in other words, how well the trailers do their... 

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a perfectly adequate family film, full of adventure, spectacle and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson’s “pec pop of love.”  In all likelihood, children will enjoy and applaud (thanks to Michael Caine) the film and parents will find enough to make them smile and remain awake and engaged. However, the film never manages to escalate above average. The action is rarely... 

We have a slew of new movies coming out this week, so let’s not waste any time with long introductions. The release I’m most interested in is the 3D presentation of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. It’s a re-release in 3D, which has been hit or miss for other studios. Disney found great success with 3D for The Lion King, but less for Beauty and the Beast. This is... 

What the hell is going on with the world? First we get a trailer for a Men in Black sequel that looks good, and now we get one for the G.I. Joe sequel that also looks like it has promise? What’s next; positive reviews for Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked? Even though most people didn’t care all that much for 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the powers that be at Paramount and Hasbro decided... 

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... 

Last week we posed the question: Are studios dumping a dud right before the summer season begins or is this Fast Five weekend an attempt to cut off the summer money a week early? Well, $85 million suggests it’s the latter. We review Fast Five (as well as give an overview of the rest of the Fast & Furious franchise), finish out our month of Billy Wilder as Artist of the Month on a high note,... 

We’ve all seen the suave yet tough police movies where the detectives figure it the crime at just the right moment and can backup their findings with muscle if the bad guys put up a fight. The kinds of films where Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson are partners and steal every scene for audiences everywhere. The Other Guys has an element of that, including Samuel and Dwayne just as we expect them,... 

Have we not seen this before from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? In this adaptation of the same ol’ Rock movie, the athlete with his priorities out of whack gets his world turned upside down by an unexpected event, except this time he plays hockey. In the Tooth Fairy we find a washed up, veteran hockey player living the life in the NHL’s minor leagues. He is a star on the team but for the...