TOTAL RECALL (2012) *1/2 For those who don’t keep up with the show-biz trades, there are several notable remakes in the works, all promising to offer different takes on established […]

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES ***1/2 To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of Batman’s death are greatly exaggerated. I’m not referring to the fate of the character in The Dark Knight […]

SAVAGES *1/2 Ridley Scott never cared for it. Neither, for that matter, did Harrison Ford. It was the studio that insisted on the voice-over narration by Ford’s character in Blade […]

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN **1/2 (In theaters Tuesday, July 3) Perhaps it’s best to think of Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man and Marc Webb’s 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as the cinematic equivalents […]

BRAVE **1/2 Belle’s mom in Beauty and the Beast? Dead. Cinderella’s mom? Deceased. Ariel’s mom in The Little Mermaid? Nowhere to be found. Jasmine’s mom in Aladdin? Kaput. And this […]

PROMETHEUS *** Certain to reign as the best disappointment of 2012, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, the heavily hyped prequel-of-sorts to his 1979 classic Alien, is a work whose visual splendor can’t […]

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN **1/2 Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Snow White and the Huntsman, the year’s second big-screen outing centered around a forlorn princess, a […]

For the rest of the 2012 summer slate, it’s going to be a tough climb to the top. That’s because The Avengers opened the season by smashing numerous box office […]

MEN IN BLACK III **1/2 It’s been 15 years since the release of the delightful Men in Black and a decade since the escape of its lamentable first sequel, and […]

BATTLESHIP * The massively budgeted, heavily hyped and supremely awful Battleship isn’t the first time the Hasbro game has been seen in some form on the big screen. In 1991’s […]

DARK SHADOWS **1/2 My mother – God rest her soul – liked her celebrities sexy and larger than life: Tyrone Power, Burt Reynolds, Bobby Kennedy (this despite her being a […]