NYC Film Critic

Hey, anyone remember 2010’s Clash of the Titans?  No?  Can’t blame you; it’s completely forgettable.  But Hollywood went ahead and made a sequel anyway and–surprise!–it’s just as boring as the first.  I review that film and the much buzzed-about doc Bully over at TWoP this week.  Follow the links below.

Wrath of the Titans Review
Bully and Goon Reviews
I Want My VOD
I Want My DVD
How Are These Actors Still Working?
Community Recap
TV on DVD
Amazing Race and Survivor Update
Why We Love Mad Men

The Hunger Games are all anyone’s been able to talk about the past couple weeks…myself included.  Check out all my Games related content at TWoP, including my review to this faithful-to-a-fault adaptation of the popular dystopian future franchise.

The Hunger Games Review
Failed YA Film Franchises
Casting the Sequels
Filling the Hunger Games Void
Indie Snapshot
I Want My DVD
Community Recap
Bent Review
Mad Men Q&A
TV on DVD

The conventional wisdom would be that a big-screen version of the old ’80s TV show 21 Jump Street would have no chance of being any good whatsoever. Well guess what? Conventional wisdom can suck it.  Thanks largely to the strong work of its central comic duo, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, the Jump Street movie turns out to be a lot of fun.  Not a comedy for the ages mind you, just a studio programmer that’s much more entertaining than expected.  Read all my Jump Street coverage, along with a bunch of other reviews, over at TWoP.

21 Jump Street vs. Dragnet
Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Casa de mi Padre
Indie Snapshot
Q&A With Jump Street Directors
Q&A With Rob Riggle
Q&A With Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum
I Want My DVD
Remaking ’80s Shows for the Big Screen
Community Recap
TV on DVD

The above image comes from the single best scene in the new sci-fi blockbuster, John Carter, a gladiatorial battle royal that pits the titular hero against a pair of monstrous white apes from the planet Mars… uh, make that Barsoom.  It’s a tense, exciting sequence distinguished by strong effects work and action choreography.  If the rest of the movie were on the level of this one scene, it’d be a classic.  As it is, it’s a supremely messy, but fitfully entertaining contraption.  I go into more detail in my review on TWoP.  Follow the links below to read more.

John Carter: He’s Got 99 Problems But the Princess of Mars Ain’t One
Silent House: Housebound & Down
Indie Snapshot
Adam Scott Q&A
Animators Turned Live-Action Directors
I Want My DVD
TV on DVD
It Actors

The latest attempt to translate the work of Dr. Seuss to the big screen isn’t quite the disaster that the Grinch and Cat in the Hat movies were, but honestly kids and their parents will be better off just reading the book again.  I cover The Lorax among other releases over on TWoP this week.

The Lorax Review
Being Flynn Review
The Avengers Trailer Review
Tales from Development Hell Review
I Want My DVD
Indie Spirit Awards Recap
TV on DVD
Parks and Recreation Review