Release Date: May 31st, 2011 Running Time: 105 minutes The Film Despite how you may feel about his film choices, you have to respect that Nicolas Cage does what he wants. A self-proclaimed fanboy and comic aficionado, it is no surprise that Cage does a lot of pulp, effects-heavy films not really meant...

Release Date: May 24th, 2011 Running Time: 120 minutes The Film Despite Oliver Stone’s love him or hate him reputation, the general consensus is that Platoon is one of his finest films. The 1986 film is one of many Vietnam movies out there but remains one of the most heralded. Having not seen the...

Release Date: May 24th, 2011 Running Time: 101 minutes The Film There are more movies about the Vietnam War than I can name with most of these showing the brutal hell of the war itself. One thing I never realized I was missing was a story about what the soldiers go through before they ship off; the...

Release Date: May 24th, 2011 Running Time: 109 minutes The Film D.J. Caruso is a solid filmmaker. Thought it wasn’t my cup of tea, Disturbia proved that he really knows how to speak to his audience, namely teens. As such, he was a no-brainer choice to helm an adaptation of I Am Number Four, a teen...

Release Date: May 17th, 2011 Running Time: 77 minutes The Film The live-action Thor blew me away with the amazing balance of heavy mythology and standard superhero awesomeness. I doubt there has ever been a vision of Asgard and Norse mythology as intricately crafted as see in that film, outside of...

Release Date: May 10th, 2011 (wide release) Running Time: 126 minutes The Film I have nothing against remakes if a story can be examined from a new pespective. Though some remakes are improvements over their predecessors, many fail to capture the magic of the original. The remake of The Manchurian...

A young boy stricken with grief after his mother’s death makes friends with a reckless loner in Hesher, featuring a go-for-broke Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the repellant and strangely enigmatic titular burnout. Directed by first-timer Spencer Susser, it’s a movie that revels in crudity and aggressively...

Priest 2011, 87mins, PG-13 Director: Scott Stewart Writer: Cory Goodman Cast includes: Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban, Lily Collins Release Date: 13th May 2011 Last year director Scott Stewart debuted with “Legion”, a schlocky, biblically themed thriller that encouraged an unhealthy...

Hanna 2011, 111mins, PG-13 Director: Joe Wright Writer (s): Seth Lochhead, David Farr Cast includes: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams Release Date: 8th April 2011 “Hanna” is a unique motion picture; that much is abundantly clear. A tale of vengeance...

Kenneth Branagh’s Thor is a superb example of the superhero genre film, cut straight from the entertaining cloth of the original Superman movies and containing 130 minutes of sheer fun. After scores of lousy, big-budget summer fantasy films, cynically churned out with slavish attention to CGI at the...