Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon

Rating: PG Length: 98 minutes Release Date: February 25, 2011 Directed by: Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders Genre: Animation / Adventure / Comedy Stars: 4 out of 5 "How to Train Your Dragon" is an amusing and heartfelt adventure set in a fictional land of Vikings and...

Movie Review: Red Lights

Rating: R (violence and profanity) Length: 113 minutes Release Date: January 20, 2012 Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés Genre: Drama / Horror / Thriller Stars: 3 out of 5 "Red Lights" challenges viewers to take sides in the seemingly endless struggle of science versus belief, ...

Movie Review: Horrible Bosses

Rating: R (Sexual innuendo and content, drug references, and foul language) Length: 98 minutes Release Date: July 8, 2011 Directed by: Seth Gordon Genre: Comedy/Crime Stars: 4 out of 5 Many people love movies that feature seemingly normal characters that end up acting...

Movie Review: Hotel for Dogs

Rating: PG (brief mild thematic elements, language, and some crude humor) Length: 100 minutes Release Date: January 16, 2009 Directed by: Thor Freudenthal Genre: Comedy, Family Stars: 3 out of 5 "Hotel for Dogs," produced by Nickelodeon Movies and distributed by ...

Movie Review: Easy Money

Rating: R (sexual content, drug references, pervasive language and violence) Length: 124 minutes Release Date: January 15, 2010 Directed by: Daniel Espinosa Genre: Crime/Thriller/Drama Stars: 3 out of 5 Viewers are immediately immersed into the full plot of "Easy Money" ...

Movie Review: The Pact

Rating: NR (Not Rated) Length: 89 minutes Release Date: June 8, 2012 Directed by: Nicholas McCarthy Genre: Horror/Thriller/Mystery Stars: 3 out of 5 There are so many horror and thriller movies raiding movie theaters that sometimes its hard to keep them all sorted. Several...

Review of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Rating: PG Length: 92 minutes Release Date: June 15, 2007 Directed by: Tim Story Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy Stars: 3 out of 5 "Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer" picks up where the previous "Fantastic 4" movie left off. Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffud), Sue Storm...

Movie Review: Grown Ups

Rating: PG-13 Length: 102 minutes Release Date: June 25, 2010 Directed by: Dennis Dugan Genre: Comedy Stars: 3 out of 5 "Grown Ups" brings a group of old friends together to relive their earlier victories and discuss how each has developed over time. What might seem like...

Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man

Rating: PG-13 Length: 136 minutes Release Date: July 3, 2012 Directed by: Marc Webb Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy Stars: 4 out of 5 Released a mere 10 years after director Sam Raimi's take on the classic character in "Spider-Man," "The Amazing Spider-Man" reboots the ...

Movie Review: Extract

Rating: R Length: 92 minutes Release Date: September 4, 2009 Directed by: Mike Judge Genre: Comedy, Crime and Romance Stars: 3 out of 5 "Extract" is a satire about the state of the American blue-collar labor force. Starring Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Ben Affleck, the ...

Movie Review: Crazy Eyes

Rating: Not Rated Length: 95 minutes Release Date: March 11, 2012 Directed by: Adam Sherman Genre: Comedy Stars: 2 out of 5 "Crazy Eyes" tells the story of an entitled man who encounters a woman who is out of his reach. Starring Lukas Haas, Madeline Zima and Jake Busey,...

Movie Review: Eagle Eye

Rating: PG-13 Length: 118 minutes Release Date: September 26, 2008 Directed by: D.J. Caruso Genre: Action / Mystery / Thriller Stars: 3 out of 5 "Eagle Eye" is an action-packed film that at first appears to remake a few other Big Brother-like films such as "Enemy of the...

Movie Review: Savages

Rating: R Length: 131 minutes Release Date: July 6, 2012 Directed by: Oliver Stone Genre: Crime/Drama/Thriller Stars: 4 out of 5 "Savages" is the latest potboiler by controversial director Oliver Stone. Based on the novel by Don Winslow, it sees Stone returning to his ...

Movie Review: Eat, Pray, Love

Rating: PG-13 (brief nudity, brief strong language, some sexual references) Length: 133 minutes Release Date: August 13, 2010 Directed by: Ryan Murphy Genre: Romance/Drama Stars: 2 out of 5 Movies about finding yourself are not always an easy draw for movie studios. There...