JON'S MOVIE BLOG
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Jon's Movie Review: Now You See Me
Most of this movie is a delight to watch because it's entertaining, and like a good magic show the tricks keep coming until the film's 115 minutes have disappeared. Finally we get ... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: Fast and Furious 6
Let's cut to the chase. These Fast and Furious films are formulaic. But what they've done in the last two films is give us a team of fun characters, each an individual with unique auto... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
You are either going to see this movie or not and I say by entertainment action film value alone the nots may want to re-consider. Chris Pine is back as James T. Kirk, with Zachery Quinto as Spock... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: The Great Gatsby
Baz Lurhmann, the chic director of Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Romeo and Juliet (1996), drops his contemporary top-40 party style cinema into the pages of the 20th Century's most prized literary... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: Iron Man 3
It may not feel like summer wherever you are in the world this first weekend in May, but the heated season has definitely hit the box office with the red hot opening of Iron Man 3. Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie as three stooges on steroids, literally, in a crime film that could almost be part of the darker comedic corner of the genre... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: Oblivion
Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman star in this science fiction adventure that once again has director and one time architect student Joseph Kosiniski hiring French club-scene musicians... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: 42
For those who don't know the baseball significance of the number 42 it's the number worn by Jackie Roosevelt Robinson, born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 and who broke the sport's... Read More -
Jon's Movie Review: The Place Beyond The Pines
Spend the ten. That's The Call on The Place Beyond The Pines starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, in what is one of my favorite films of the year. Read More