Running Time: 2 hours, 11 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Peter Berg Quick Impressions: My nine-year-old stepson dreams of future military glory and has been dying to see Battleship since the very first preview. Earlier this week, I explained all this to my mother and said with a sigh of acceptance, “So it looks like we’re going …
Running Time: 1 hour, 52 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Tim Burton Quick Impressions: I noticed that Dark Shadows was getting a somewhat chilly critical reception, but The Avengers had been so satisfying as entertainment for the whole family the week before that I was desperately craving more summer movie fun. Plus, when you go to …
Running Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Joss Whedon Quick Impressions: Reviewing The Avengers feels special to me. For one thing, this is easily one of the most anticipated movies of the year since Marvel has been teasing us with it ever since the tag at the end …
Running Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes Rating: R Director: Nick Stoller Quick Impressions: Our screening of The Five-Year Engagement began with a trippy, mysterious Yellow Submarine trailer that aired just before the “no texting, no calls” announcement. I call it mysterious because I have no idea what it meant. It appeared to be just a remastered version …
Running Time: 1 hour, 28 minutesRating: PGDirector: Peter Lord Quick Impressions:I’m just going to have to face it—nothing will ever be as funny as Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. How fondly I recall the afternoon that my husband (then my boyfriend) and I mistakenly stumbled on that …
Running Time: 1 hour, 39 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Lee Hirsch Quick Impressions: While watching this movie, three things jumped out at me: 1) Seriously? This was at one time rated R? What exactly did they remove to argue the MPAA down to the PG-13 rating? Because of its high-profile …
Running Time: 1 hour, 45 minutesRating: R Director: Drew Goddard Quick Impressions: The Cabin in the Woods offers fresh new surprises and an amazingly original twist if you’ve never seen one of Joss Whedon’s TV shows. If you’re like me and have seen all of them, then basically that’s why …
Running Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes Rating: R Director: Phil Lord, Chris Miller Quick Impressions: I think I like Dave Franco better than James Franco (which is easy since I don’t particularly like James Franco). But isn’t it weird that Dave Franco always seems to play a high school student …
Running Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes Rating: PG-13 Director: Andrew Stanton Quick Impressions: Thanks to its beyond inept marketing campaign, I’ve been dreading John Carter for what seems like an eternity. Since at least last summer, I’ve been seeing the torturous, over-pushed preview every time I set foot in a …
Running Time: 1 hour, 26 minutes Rating: PG Directors: Chris Renaud, Kyle Bada Quick Impressions: Unlike other Seuss classics, The Lorax never played a very prominent role in my childhood because it had the same effect on my mother that Chinatown has on me—i.e., it depressed her into a stupor …
