Johnny Showtime: ROOFMAN

 by JB

Boy! Don’t believe trailers!

Review: MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE

 by Rob DiCristino

A bang and a whimper.

Review: Magic Mike XXL

by Patrick Bromley

Magic Mike XXL is what you thought the first Magic Mike would be. That's not such a bad thing.

Review: Jupiter Ascending

by Adam Riske

This is unfortunate.

Review: 22 Jump Street

by Patrick Bromley

A movie that shouldn't have worked but did gets a sequel that really shouldn't work but does.

Review: White House Down

by Patrick Bromley

I'm not sure I have the words.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (May 10)

Anyone notice the new "look" of the MPAA's rating screens before movie previews? They're weird, right? I mean, maybe they're not -- maybe I'm just opposed to change. But they seem fake -- like a fan trailer for an existing movie, or a trailer for a really bad student film by the guy in film school who isn't going anywhere ... but HE THINKS he's going places, and just to prove it, he's "approximated" the old green screen from a distant, drunk memory. I could be wrong about this whole thing (and I see they've embraced the 2008 branding of Barack Obama by selecting the now-eponymous Gotham font, so that's a good start?). Again, I could be wrong.

Take Two: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

by Patrick Bromley

Knowing is half the battle.

Review: Side Effects (Adam Riske's Take)

by Adam Riske

Side Effects is worth seeing. Not by a long shot, but just barely.

Review: 10 Years

There is no shortage of movies built around high school reunions. The Best of Times. Peggy Sue Got Married. Grosse Pointe Blank. Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion. Just earlier this year there was American Reunion, a terrible, lifeless comedy that couldn't make us care about the adult lives of a group of characters even though we had already spent three movies with them. This year's much better reunion movie is the barely-released comedy drama 10 Years, written and directed by Jamie Linden. It's a high school reunion movie less concerned with looking back than with examining the present. It presents no real villains, nor characters with longtime scores to settle. It's not as good as Ted Demme's great Beautiful Girls, but it belongs much more in that conversation than it does with junk like American Reunion.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Nov. 9)

Anyone else watch Dave on Tuesday night? No? Just me? By myself? With a box of Kleenex? Talk about your #ScaryMovieNight, amIright? Listen, we're all glad the election's over, because now we can get back to what we really care about -- MOVIES!

Review: Magic Mike

by Patrick Bromley

The aspect of the new Channing Tatum stripper movie Magic Mike that's being ignored in all the marketing and hype is that it's a really good movie.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (Week of July 4)

I just flew in from Alaska, and boy are my Sarah-Palin-jokes tired!