Author Archive for Paul Peterson
The real secret power of the undead is to put us to sleep
Before I start my review of Breaking Dawn Part 1, I have to declare a conflict of interest. It’s really hard for me to write anything about two special people getting married. I’m still very raw and hurt over the break up of Kim Kardashian and whatever that guy’s name was. It’s just so sad […]
The madlib of an Adam Sandler movie review
There are large segments of our modern world I don’t understand. I never got monster trucks. I’m getting to an age where climbing into my van is difficult enough. I never saw the value of driving a vehicle that required an altimeter to steer. I also don’t understand playing video games for hours at a […]
A bit soured on Puss in Boots but the kids like it
Well, not all is well in the Land of Shrek. First of all, the storied franchise is in a state of merciful suspended animation. Merciful because the last outing was anything less than stellar. Shrek inspired millions to watch animated pictures and it had such a hip wink wink attitude towards its older audience it […]
Spooky fan cam best part of PA3
So there are all these new formulaic films coming out with new formulas for recycling the same old same old. Talk about wheels within wheels. It all started with The Blair Witch Project which wasn’t a movie, wasn’t watchable and wasn’t even renting real estate on the block known as good. All the famous horror […]
Footloose has beat and cadence of the original
Ok, so I have to admit I’ve been wrong on every level about the remake of Footloose. I thought it would bomb, it opened with 16 million in sales which is a juggernaut in October. I thought it was the worst kind of Hollywood whoremongering, picking the bones from the corpse of a Hollywood classic. […]
50/50 a really funny movie with a big heart
Sometimes a film can be elevated by its stars and other times it almost limits its accessability. In the case of 50/50 the film in some ways is eclipsed by Seth Rogan’s presence in it. They market to his audience which looks for him to be his usual party-going-dope-smoking-womanizing character and as it turns out, […]
Moneyball for the win
It’s rare that I’m looking forward to a film in September, given the horror shows that normally dot the landscape, and I’m not talking genre here. And as I have chronicled time and time again, I have absolutely no shame when it comes to what I play as long as I think people will pay […]
The Help helps us remember
Whenever I review a movie that plays to a predominantly female demographic I usually throw in my standard lines about needing to top up my testosterone level by watching Die Hard or any of the early Eastwood films, but I’m not going to do that this time. The Help is a film that has found […]
Come face-to-face with your unwashed hands in Contagion
This is probably as good a time as any to be a germophobe. Maybe Howie Mandell has it right and we should all just go to the fist-bump and stop shaking hands altogether. Germs are everywhere and now that they’re becoming industrial strength movies like Contagion, they are closer to a documentary than science fiction. […]
Summer movies: mostly good but nothing to blow you away
I really am the proverbial Charlie Brown of summer reviews, lining up every time to kick that ball only to have it yanked away by the film companies going Lucy on me and yanking away the ball. There were some good parts to the summer and some really good films. I liked X Men: First […]
