INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE Hits all the right buttons

Jeff Ruffolo 06/24/2016

THEY’RE back! That’s right, those nasty multi-tentacle aliens we all know and love are back after a two-decade hiatus to finally wipe out collective humanity in the gripping sci-fi sequel … “Independence Day: Resurgence.” The first time…

Captain America vs. Iron Man

Jeff Ruffolo 04/29/2016

CAPTAIN America (Chris Evans) faces off against Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) as the Avengers are torn apart and battle to the death in “Captain America: Civil War.” In the months since the Avengers destroyed the monstrous…

The Jungle Book: A fun, epic journey

Jeff Ruffolo 04/08/2016

DISNEY has brought back the timeless classic, “The Jungle Book,” but this time instead of animation, it is a marvelous live action remake. As the story goes, raised by a family of wolves since birth, Mowgli (played…

‘LONDON HAS FALLEN’: Action-packed, tight political thriller

Jeff Ruffolo 03/04/2016

GERARD Butler (“Gods of Egypt”) stars as super-secret agent Mike Banning who tears up another global capital to keep an American President from certain doom in “London Has Fallen.” The follow-up to 2013’s terrific “Olympus Has Fallen,”…

‘GODS OF EGYPT’: A silly CG-filled romp through Mesopotamia

Jeff Ruffolo 02/26/2016

A COMMON thief changes an ancient world filled with mythical creatures in “Gods of Egypt.” And if you are already getting altogether too excited to see this CG-filled romp through Mesopotamia, you may want to hold off…

‘Furious 7’ keeps the action (and franchise) going

Jeff Ruffolo 04/10/2015

Vin Diesel and Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson once again team up in “Furious 7”— the continuing saga that’s  “Fast & Furious.” And unless you have been hiding in a cave, this seventh installment of this movie franchise…

Vibrant and colorful ‘Home”

Jeff Ruffolo 03/27/2015

When a diminutive blue alien named Oh unceremoniously drops onto planet Earth, all sorts of mayhem occurs in the delightful new animated cartoon movie, “Home.” Voiced by Jim Parsons from TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” Home’s Oh…

The good, the so-so and the stinky 2014 movies

Jeff Ruffolo 12/19/2014

Flanked by some exceptionally great films are some of the worst movies known to man and we have them all here in our annual Year in Review  … and away we go!   THE GOOD The Wolf…

The autobots are back

06/27/2014

Mark Wahlberg (“Lone Survivor”) and the Autobots, including Optimus Prime, team up to save the world in the latest offering of “Transformers: Age of Extinction.” Gone for good is Shia LaBeouf who we collectively saw grow up…

Edge of Tomorrow: A Hollywood rarity

06/06/2014

Cruise stars as a soldier fighting a never-ending war against an invading alien armada in “Edge of Tomorrow.” And for any sci-fi movie to work, there has to be a “hook”; in this case Cruise as PR…

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