Category: 2013

  • Iron Man Three (2013 review)

    Iron Man Three (2013 review)

    4 outta 5 The thing with Marvel’s The Avengers was that it was an uber-superhero movie that blew the genre wide open by being 6 superhero flicks. Iron Man 3 is singular but ambitious since this is kind of indie action thriller with flying robot suits.  At times the movie’s determination to strip Iron Man…

  • Star Trek Into Darkness (2013 review)

    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013 review)

    5 outta 5 Some may pontificate as to what exactly constitutes Star Trek, this is right, that is not, but any and all genres can and do exist in Star Trek.  What J.J. Abrams and his “Bad Robot” production company have done is take Star Trek and reinvent it as a chase movie, but there…

  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (’13 review)

    The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (’13 review)

    4 outta 5 While one may debate the logic in expanding a single novel of The Hobbit into three plus sized movies, even when one is drawing from as dense a writer as J.R.R. Tolkien, there is comfortable enjoyment in returning to the same world that Director Peter Jackson has immersed himself and the audience…