Back Seat Producers

Our setting is a small Ohio town of Lillian in the late 70s.  Young Joe Lamb has just suffered through the death of his mother and has difficulties dealing with his father, who’s one of the deputies on the town’s police force.  Joe has a group of friends who he makes short movies with shot [...]

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X-Men: First Class is a prequel film to Marvel’s and Fox’s highly successful X-Men series.  The first two movies (X-Men and X-Men 2), both directed by Bryan Singer, are terrific films.  While I like the third film in the series, directed by Brett Ratner, I’d also be the first to tell you that it falters [...]

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At the end of Japan’s feudal era, peace reigns across the land, though that is starting to be abused by the Shogun’s brother, Lord Naritsugu.  Naritsugu abuses the people for his own sport and is on the fast track to ascension within the hierarchy.  Sir Doi, the minister of law, wants to stop him but [...]

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Our setting is a post-apocalyptic world that’s been ravaged by a very long conflict between the Church and a strange vampire race. To fight the vampires, the Church has created The Priests, a group of specially trained warriors who’s specialty is vampire killing. The struggle is supposedly over, and most of the remaining citizenry is [...]

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Kenneth Branagh was definitely the right man for the job for directing Thor. Ever since Marvel started their own film adaptations, their choice of directors for each film have certainly been interesting.  Neither Jon Favreau or Louis Letterier would’ve been the first guys to come to mind to helm Iron Man and Incredible Hulk respectively.  [...]

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Following the events of the fourth movie in the series, Fast & Furious, Dominic Toretto once again finds himself facing a very long prison sentence.  As before, this doesn’t last long.  Dom’s sister, Mia, and his former adversary, now ally, former Federal Agent Brian O’Connor stage a daring escape putting all three once again on [...]

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I really was not planning to see this.  When I first saw the trailer to Super, it looked to me like it was going to this geek reference comedy with Rainn Wilson doing his thing from The Office, which had become extremely tired for me (I quit watching The Office a couple of seasons ago).  [...]

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Hanna is a 16-year old girl who lives with her father in the wilderness.  They’re totally cut off from everything, including not having electricity for their home.  That’s fine by Hanna’s father, a former secret agent named Erik Heller who’s purposely keeping Hanna from the rest of the world.  But one day, he knows that [...]

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A school teacher named Sean Fentress wakes from a disturbing sleep on board a train.  He’s sitting across from his friend an attractive woman named Christina Warren.  Christina’s engaging Sean in some banter, but he’s hugely disoriented.  He believes himself to be an Air Force Captain named Colter Stevens and with immediate memories of being [...]

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(Note: The following review was ungraciously swiped from Tee Morris’ blog at www.teemorris.com.  This review is not printed by permission, but is instead published under the Fair-Use doctrine of copyright law. Specifically the ‘Triple-Dog Dare you’ portion of the law.) Director and Writer Zack Snyder can really make a beautiful movie. Snyder set his own style with films like 300 [...]

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