Author: Dan Gardner

The power of the Green Lantern gives the wearer the ability to make anything imaginable become reality. The writers/director used their power to conjure up every imaginable cliche ever used to make a super hero comic adaptation. Wait, I take that back. There’s no side kick in this story so they missed maybe one cliche.…

[ No Spoilers ] I’m going to start off with what’s wrong with this movie . . . I’m thinking . . . Just a second. I’m sure I can come up with something . . . Nope, I’m stumped. Can’t think of a single thing that’s wrong with this movie. It’s great from beginning…

[ No spoilers ] Going into the theater this morning I had high expectations for X-Men First Class. It has an 88% at RottenTomatoes.com which is very high for a movie of this genre. But after seeing the movie I’m surprised that it’s not much, much, higher. In a word it was awesome. In two…

[ No Spoilers ] I’m going to do this review as an interview of myself by a person who’s interesting in possibly seeing The Tree of Life. potential movie goer: So Dan, did you like The Tree of Life? Dan: [ pause ] . . . ummm. [ pause ] I think so. potential movie…

[ No Spoilers ] Here’s what I think you should know if you’re trying to decide if you should go see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in the theater or wait for it on DVD. If you only want to see the movie if they were able to recapture the magic of the…

[ No Spoilers ] You already know from the previews that Thor is a visual masterpiece. You won’t be disappointed in the FX. They did a fantastic job of building Asgard. It is epic . . . I mean EPIC. I’ll see this movie again on DVD just to see the beauty of it. If…

[ No spoilers ] I generally like movies in the Priest genre – whatever that is. Movies like this are rarely great and the best one can hope for is that they don’t suck, that they have a few decent action scenes, maybe throw in something moderately unique here and there, and that the story…

[ No spoilers ] Sucker Punch wasn’t bad at all. But it wasn’t very good either. It is easy to see the similarities with Watchmen since both are products of Zack Snyder. So if you liked the style of Watchmen you’ll certainly enjoy Sucker Punch. But don’t expect to get the same depth of plot…