‘Panda’: All gut, and glory

Despite a darker tone, Po’s fists of furry fury are just as engaging in “Kung Fu Panda 2,” a solid product from DreamWorks Animation, which has been milking its cash cow… or ogre, rather, churning out increasingly inferior “Shrek” sequels. DreamWorks nailed it last year with one of the year’s best animated films, “How to [...]

‘Cleveland Steamer:The Movie’

Dragons, zombie Nazis, faceless robots, orcs, towering samurai, scantily clad babes with guns: “Sucker Punch” is like a byproduct of some of fanboy focus group. It’s as though director Zack Snyder simply plucked items off the shelves of better films and stuck them in his cart. And his script has all the depth and excitement [...]

Redo or Redon’t: The Green Hornet

‘Ghost Rider,’ come back. All is forgiven. After witnessing the wrong-in-every-imaginable-way “Green Hornet,” the Nicolas Cage superhero stinker deserves to be scraped of the barrel’s bottom to allow room for this boring, repetitive, steaming-turd of a film. The latest incarnation of ‘Horet’ has a storied past that dates back almost two decades. Rumored involvement in [...]

‘Lionheart’ with Harrison Page

Title: Lionheart (1990) Rated: R Directed by: Sheldon Lettich Written by: S.N. Warren (story) Jean Claude Van Damme (screenplay) Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme as Leon Harrison Page as Joshua Debra Rennard as Cynthia Lisa Pelikan as Helene Ashley Johnson as Nicole  By Count Vardulon Pre-screening memories: I was old enough, when seeing Lionheart for the [...]

‘Silent Rage’

Silent Rage (1982) Rated: R Director: Michael Miller Screenplay: Joseph Fraley Starring: Chuck Norris as Sheriff Dan Stevens                 Steven Furst as Deputy Charlie                 Ron Silver as Dr. Tom Halman                 Toni Kalem as Allison Halem Tagline: “Science created him, Now Chuck Norris must destroy him.” By: Rupert Pupkin (as told to [...]