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From the Final Frontier

Star Trek Into Darkness continues rejuvenation of formerly stale franchise

By Alex Bentley

05.18.13 | 9:45 am

The rebooting of Star Trek four years ago by director J.J. Abrams was a much-needed shot in the arm for an endangered franchise. The last film in the series, Star Trek: Nemesis, had come out in 200 ...


Movie Apocalypse

Oblivion and Tom Cruise deliver a fantastic-looking end of the world

By Alex Bentley

04.20.13 | 3:05 pm

If you fear some kind of forthcoming apocalypse, this is not the year for you to go to the movies. There are multiple films that deal with the end of the world in one form or another, including War ...


Waste of Comedic Talent

Despite the talent, Admission fails to make the grade as a comedy

By Alex Bentley

03.23.13 | 10:59 am

You’d be hard-pressed to find two funnier people in show business than Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. Fey has earned much acclaim for her work on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, although her film c ...


The invincible John McClane

Jaw-dropping action can't save A Good Day To Die Hard from its precarious storyline

By Alex Bentley

02.15.13 | 9:18 am

It's been 25 years since Die Hard, labeled by many as the best action movie of all time, catapulted Bruce Willis from middling success on television to movie superstardom. Since that time, many ...


Stealing laughs

Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman's palpable comedic chemistry carries Identity Thief

By Alex Bentley

02.08.13 | 11:15 am

Since her breakout role in 2011’s Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy has been everywhere, it seems. However, that’s been more for her ubiquitous presence at entertainment awards shows than a ...


Zombie-rrific

Zombies in love: Warm Bodies is unlike any romantic comedy you've ever seen

By Alex Bentley

02.02.13 | 4:59 pm

If you’re going to make a zombie-centric movie at this point, you’d better have something special. Straight-up horror movies are a dime a dozen — and now outdone by TV's  ...


All action and no creativity

Perfunctory action scenes dim the big-name stars in Gangster Squad

By Alex Bentley

01.11.13 | 11:45 am

January is shaping up to be quite a strange month for movie releases. On one hand, you have prestige movies such as The Impossible and Zero Dark Thirty expanding into wide release after short ...


Hope amid tragedy

Only the tsunami transcends the acting in the visually stunning The Impossible

By Alex Bentley

01.04.13 | 12:30 pm

Making films about horrific events will always be tricky. How soon is too soon? If you’re dealing with actual victims, how personal is too personal? Conversely, if you’re approaching th ...


Dream the dream

Magic of Les Misérables lost in translation from stage to screen

By Alex Bentley

12.26.12 | 12:15 pm

Since the dawn of the 21st century, the movie musical has been slowly but surely been making a comeback. The relative failures of films like A Chorus Line and Little Shop of Horrors in the ’8 ...


Bloody Christmas

Django Unchained entertains, but Quentin Tarantino may have finally taken violence too far

By Alex Bentley

12.24.12 | 11:45 am

Of all the A-list directors working today, Quentin Tarantino seems the least likely to have made it to that lofty spot. Yes, he has a knack for writing snappy dialogue and putting together great so ...


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