Author Archives: Joe Cummings

Ok, I kind of gave away what I thought about the movie but here’s the thing, while Total Recall has some great special effects and Kate Beckinsale, those two things are not enough to sustain the movie. This is, of … Continue reading →

So, based on my arbitrary and rather limited list of things this movie had to do, did it succeed? Did it have a great opening? Did it have a great villain? Does it have epic moments? Does it have nifty, … Continue reading →

Ok, here’s something you’ll not read every day.  A pre-review, review.  But Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight Rising, the third and last in the series, is a movie that deserves more than just a simple review. First, I have not seen … Continue reading →

Ah, the new Spiderman.  The Amazing Spiderman.  A reboot?  Remake?  Re-imagining? I have to start out by saying that I loved the original Spiderman and I found myself thinking, why in the world would they have to restart a very successful … Continue reading →

So, TomKat.  Getting divorced.  Color me surprised.   Who really thought this would last? But that’s not the big issue.  Oh, no.  It’s far, far worse.  Tom Cruise will be playing Jack Reacher, the tough-guy’s tough-guy created by Lee Child.  Now, I … Continue reading →

Of all the things I worry about when I’m thinking of getting old, the one that scares me the most is losing my mind.   I mean, will I know it when it happens? So, I am tasking my friends to … Continue reading →

Prometheus. There are three movies I’ve been really looking forward to seeing. Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. The new 007, Skyfall. Ridley Scott’s prequel to Alien – Prometheus. But with such anticipation, it raises the stakes for the movie.  It … Continue reading →

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to the movies I go… Snow White and the Huntsman, a complete re-imagining of the timeless tale of a princess, an evil queen and a gaggle of dwarves.  It’s a pretty risky move.  I … Continue reading →

Ten Reasons Why Langley Doesn’t Completely Suck 1) It doesn’t smell like cow poo all the time.  Ok, today it did but most days it doesn’t. 2) People are surprisingly (and somewhat distressingly) friendly.  Good news if you like chatting … Continue reading →

I loved the first Men In Black.  Will Smith as the wise-cracking FNG, Tommy Lee Jones as the stone-faced veteran, lots of funny people-are-really-aliens-jokes, but why it succeeded, why it really worked, was the relationship between the two men in … Continue reading →