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…