Jon’s Movie Review: You Won’t Want to Adopt This “Annie”

Rebooting a series is a huge undertaking. There are so many pitfalls along the way that you have to be careful not to fall and snap your neck. There are very few reasons to reboot anything: updating/changing the story to…

Movie News: Second Trailer for ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

I can’t quite recall how the first Horrible Bosses ended, but apparently it warranted a sequel. The new trailer for Horrible Bosses 2 doesn’t really highlight anything new other than showing us more of Jamie Foxx’s character. Here’s what I took away: 1.…

Jon’s Movie Review: The real enemy of ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ is all of the back stories

I grew up on Spider-Man and remember running around making the web-shooting/rock-and-roll hand signs and attacking the devious Doctor Octopus (the vacuum cleaner), the dastardly Vulture (our pet bird Peaches), and the fierce Lizard (our ficus tree). I took down…

Jon’s Movie Review: White House Down

It’s been a bad year for the President of the United States. He’s died or been under attack in every way from Olympus Has Fallen to World War Z. We’ve dealt with attacks both foreign and alien, but no one…

MTV Movie Awards 2013 Recap + Winners

Comedic actress Rebel Wilson hosted MTV’s 2013 Movie Awards. I thought she had some funny jokes, but some of them were really adult jokes for having young actress Quvenzhané Wallis in the audience. I liked how Jamie Foxx was wearing…

MTV Movie Awards 2013 Nominations

For the past few years, Twilight has dominated the MTV Movie Awards much to many people’s disdain, unless you’re a Twihard. But Twilight only got one nomination surprisingly! Films like Silver Linings Playbook, The Perks of Being a Wallflower and…

This Month in Film: December 2012 New Releases

December is always jam-packed with movies. Not only are studios catering for the Holiday season, but they’re squeezing in every Oscar hopeful they have before the end of the year. Even though this month is full of movies, a lot…