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Ryan Reynolds is the Green Lantern and Martin Campbell, who directed the James Bond movies Golden Eye and Casino Royale, is in charge of this huge special effects budget film. Director Campbell throws every dollar up there on the screen and the special effects are amazing. As a matter of fact the effects ARE the film. They are so heavy handed they overpower the story. The summer of comic book movies continues with the release of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern on the big screen. People really get caught up in this comic book stuff. I guess it’s because of their fond childhood memories of following their favorite superhero in the pages of a comic book. They know all of the background info on their guy and things like the oath he has to take to become Green Lantern (“In Brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight”). It’s a trip! I fall on the other end of the spectrum. Sure, I’d heard of Green Lantern, but I wasn’t aware that the Green Lanterns were a bro...

The boy who lived, come to die." Warner Bros has debuted the official theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 in high def on Apple after its world premiere during the ABC Family presentation of Happy Gilmore on TV tonight. We all know where this is headed, we've all seen the first half of the end, now get an incredible glimpse at the true finale coming up this summer. Daniel Radcliffe stars as Harry Potter, Ralph Fiennes as his nemesis Voldemort, and a fantastic cast full of so many other great actors. Get ready to hold your breath for the full two minutes it takes to watch this phenomenal new trailer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is again directed by British filmmaker David Yates, of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince previously. The script was also written again by Steve Kloves, of Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and also Half-Blood Prince, but not Order of the Phoenix. Th...

In Hanna high brow Oscar winning director, Joe Wright, (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) seems to be trying to prove that he can get down with an action film for the masses. The end result is a very stylized suspense thriller and, while it’s heavy on the action, it’s more of a character study of a sixteen year old girl who was raised with only one objective; to be the perfect killer. Hanna, the daughter of a murdered C.I.A. operative, is raised in the isolated woods of Finland. The movie’s tagline is “Adapt or Die” and that’s exactly what we see Hanna doing in the movie’s opening minutes. She kills a huge deer with a bow and arrow (and drags it home), speaks several languages and, while “training” with her dad, the student gets the best of the teacher and almost snaps his neck. This is one bad little girl. Saoirse Ronan plays Hanna. Eric Bana is her dad and Cate Blanchett is the C.I.A. agent who wants to kill them both. Music from The Chemical Brothers adds a driving beat to th...

The Source Code is an intelligent Sci-fi adventure from sophomore director Duncan Jones. In Source Code Jake Gyllenhall stars as Captain Colter Stevens, whose last memory was being shot down in his helicopter over Afghanistan. He wakes up in a Chicago bound train and in the body of someone who is not him. The train, filled with commuters, is eight minutes away from being blown up by terrorists and he has to try and stop the plot by finding the identity of the bomber. The eight minute train ride is relived over and over again while he tries to figure out how to change the outcome. Of course, over the course of his “Ground Hog Day” re-dos, he meets a woman on the train and the exercise in quantum physics suddenly becomes very personal to the time traveler. Gyllenhall does a great job playing the good soldier, who is a victim of circumstances, with compassion. Jeffery Wright also stars as the inventor of the Source Code time travel program for the U.S. military. He does a good job ...

Sucker Punch is the latest project from director Zack Snyder, who brought the movies 300 and Watchmen to the big screen. Snyder’s description of the film is “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns”. This movie kicks butt! The “wonderland” that Baby Doll, Australian actress Emily Browning, falls into is a mental institution in the 1950’s. She’s sent there by her evil stepfather and is scheduled to be lobotomized in 5 days. In those 5 days she conspires with her fellow inmates to escape the asylum. One of the girls is played by High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens. She’s a real surprise standout in the movie as Blondie, one of Baby Doll’s fellow prison girls. The five females use a fantasy world in their imagination to escape the daily abuse in the asylum and to hatch a plan to get them out of there. It’s in the fantasy world where all of the action happens. This crew of girls fights monsters, dragons, giant ninjas and undead Nazi soldiers. Five hot chicks with swords swinging...

Paul is ET meets sex, drugs and Rock and Roll! In Paul non stop laughs follow a runaway alien and two British geeks who come to the US for a holiday of trekking to all the famous UFO hotspots. The two super geeks get more than they bargained for when they come to the aid of the victim of a car crash and instead come face to face with the escaped alien. The two Brits are played by Nick Frost and Simon Pegg who were previously paired in the comedies Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead. The two actors are fall down funny as the straight men to the huge eyed, ill mannered and often naked alien, Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). The movie is filled with pop culture references and inside sci-fi jokes like when Paul asks for some Reese’s Pieces when his two travel companions hit the mini mart for snacks or when, in a flash back scene, Steven Spielberg gets tips on making ET from the real extra terrestrial. There are also a few surprise appearances in the movie. This movie is just flat out funn...

Coming out this weekend The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey as he plays a lawyer who conducts business from the backseat of his Lincoln town car for high-profile clients in Beverly Hills. As he travels between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers — they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence it's about negotiation and manipulation. So when a Beverly Hills playboy gets arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Mickey to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years It's a defense attorney's dream. And as all the evidence begins to stack up, Mickey comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career. Then things change as someone close to him is murdered and Mickey discovers that his search ...