Who would have thought that Robert Downey Jr. would become one of my favorite actors?  And only after two recent movies.  Iron Man and now Sherlock Holmes.  Of course I have seen him in other movies but it is these two recent ones that make him stand out in my mind.  It is the way he plays his characters and delivers his dialog.  He really sinks into the...

I have to say, I went into this movie with high expectations.  Several writers that I read highly recommended it and it has received very good reviews from the press.  I was a little worried because of this.  I figured my expectations would be a little too high and I would be disappointed.  I was wrong.  This is one of the best animated flicks I have seen in...

This is the second part of my review of The Book of Eli.  The first part is a little more technical and this one delves more into the themes I found in the movie. Danger: Spoilers lie ahead! I love a movie with a good twist ending especially when it is one I couldn’t guess.  It makes a good movie great and makes subsequent viewings shine all the more as you...

This review was getting long enough that I decided to split it into two pieces.  The first, found below, is more of a technical review (as technical as I get anyway).  The second piece looks deeper into themes of the movie which can only be discussed in full after having seen the film. The Book of Eli is a very hard movie to review because there are many things...

I have struggled for a while with writing reviews for things I don’t particularly like unless they strike an idea in my head that resonates.  Then I write more about the idea than the thing I am reviewing.  The reason for this is that I really don’t want to spend the time it would take to write a detailed review of a movie that didn’t catch my...

I am going to apologize for two items up front. 1.  There are spoilers ahead (in the rant section. You can safely read the review)!  If you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to know what happens then don’t read the rant section.  However, it is hard to spoil a movie that is as predictable as this one.  I will get to that later. 2.  It is...