The Mummy franchise takes a major geographical turn as the action this time shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series that has earned more than $800 million at the box office worldwide. Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell, who now combats a resurrected Chinese Emperor, played by...
Author: John Daly
The Love Guru
The Love Guru
Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. Later in life he moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple...
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
How quickly time passes. Seems like only yesterday that The X-Files first premiered on television screens – but it was, in fact, 1993. A series chronicling the adventures of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, it centered around two contrasting FBI agents assigned to...
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Forbidden Kingdom
While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, he is charged with a monumental task of freeing fabled warrior, the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the powerful...
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
Are you looking for an antidote to the Irish summer, something to dispel the gloom and bring a little fantasy sunshine into your life? Look no further than this one, my friend – a movie that’ll surely ramp up the feel good meter and have you Googling the Ryanair site in search of cheap flights to the...
Upcoming films
Upcoming films
At the half-way point of the year, it’s time once again to take stock of cinema and television and, what specifically, we can look forward to over the next few months. As always, it will likely be a case of the good, the bad and the ugly – but at this juncture we really don’t know who will be the...
Wanted
Wanted
Wesley Gibson is a loser who hates his life – and with good reason. At work, his boss torments him in front of his colleagues, and, back home, his girlfriend is a sexual magnet for everyone except him – including Wes’s supposed best friend. No wonder he’s on his 10th prescription for panic...
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The characters of C.S. Lewis’ timeless fantasy come to dazzling life again in this sequel to the 2005 original. This time out, the Pevensie siblings – Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy-are transported from World War II England to Narnia through a tube station near London’s Trafalgar Square, embarking on...
I Am Legend
I Am Legend
Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and, worst of all, manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by the...
We Own The Night
We Own The Night
Director James Gray posits two distinctly different brothers – Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix) – as the central characters in this crime thriller. Joseph and Bobby inhabit two conflicting worlds in late 1980s New York, the former becoming a cop and the latter running a...
Bee Movie Review
Bee Movie Review
Fresh out of college, Barry the Bee (Jerry Seinfeld) finds the prospect of working with honey uninspiring. When he flies outside the hive for the first time, Barry learns that humans have been stealing and eating honey for centuries, and he realizes that his true calling is to obtain justice for his kind by suing...
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass
Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) is only 12, but even she knows that doing what you’re told versus doing what you feel is right can yield very different outcomes. A rebellious orphan living as a ward at Jordan College in Oxford, Lyra belongs to a world that is one of many parallel worlds – unseen,...