Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

The core story of Spider-Man is one that resonates with people through all ages of life, the now-cliché idea of “with great power comes great responsibility”. You know the storyline: dorky Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gains all sorts of great powers and amazing strength. Inspired, he makes a spider costume and invents a webbing he can shoot to allow him to battle criminals and keep his home city of NYC…Read More

Review: The Amazing Spider-Man

The new movie The Amazing Spider-Man is built on a really good script, an origin story reboot of everyone’s favorite spider/teen hybrid, Peter Parker. We’ve seen this story on the big screen plenty of times now, and this big-budget film stars a moody, sensitive Andrew Garfield in the title role, with cute – but smart! – Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Peter’s love interest. Reboots are always a challenge and doubly-so when they’re explaining how…Read More

Review: Zombieland

It takes a certain sense of humor to enjoy a horror comedy film like Zombieland, but if you can laugh at graphic violence and can see the humor in parody, then this is a great movie for you to catch. Brilliantly funny, full of great lines, Zombieland offers a zombie film unlike any other I’ve seen, though perhaps the cult hit Shaun of the Dead comes somewhat close. The film is set in the present…Read More