Battleship Review [Movies]

In 1943 the Milton Bradley Corporation launched a pencil and paper game entitled ‘Broadsides, the Game of Naval Strategy’ whose origins would ultimately evolve into the board game known as “Battleship”.

In 2012, Hasbro and Universal decided to release a movie version of Battleship, which seems nothing more than an in-name-only recreation of the classic game that most families have stored in their basements somewhere.

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The Dictator Review [Movies]

In his third starring role, British improv phenom Sacha Baron Cohen brings his famous over-the-top crudeness and ability to draw laughs from extremely awkward situations with his latest release The Dictator.

Unlike his previous releases Borat and Bruno, this film actually has a script (if you can call it that), which the film stumbles through for the brief 83 or so minutes.

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Top Five Movie Remakes since 2000 [Movies]

These days it seems as if Hollywood has lost some of the creativity, for whatever reason that it may be, it is as if it is easier to remake a movie then to come up with a fresh new idea. There are some movies that will never be remade, for instance you can never recapture the magic contained with Gone With the Wind, and there are some actors that are so known for a specific role that it would be an absolute shame to try and duplicate their performance.

But every so often a remake comes along that can stand on its own merit and sometimes even rival the original. Here are my choices for the top 5 movie remakes since the dawn of the new millennium.

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The Raid: Redemption Review [Movies]

If action is your thing, then The Raid: Redemption is the movie for you. At slightly short of two hours, the movie is as fast paced as the martial arts fighting sequences, and there are little to no lulls in the action throughout.

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