Re-makes are always a toss up. Will it be the same with different cast members?  Will the plot be too much like the first film, or will it be too different?  These were the questions running through my mind when I went to see the new “Footloose.”  I wasn’t […]

From the first second of the trailer of “Real Steel” one typically knows what to expect. For all the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots jokes that can be made however, the important question that should be asked of any movie is whether or not it entertains. My answer is […]

It seems today that you can never talk about the inevitable apocalypse without having a sense of gloom attached to the topic. Ever since the 90s, perception of the end of the world has been more in line with “Terminator” than “Mad Max.” I remember the time when hypothesizing […]

RTV students are being offered the opportunity to earn Internet Movie Database credit for working on a movie being shot in the area. The movie, which is called “The Merchant,” is a western horror film set in 1895.  The movie will be doing shoots in Gilmer, TX on Oct. […]

I’m quite certain I speak for everyone when I say the funniest movies out there are the ones that center on young people getting cancer and, as a result, having to face their cripplingly depressing mortality. Okay, probably not. But “50/50” was, by far, the funniest cancer movie that I […]

#8220;Moneyball” is fundamentally a baseball movie and not a movie about baseball, which is a finite yet distinct difference. The movie, which is based on a 2003 book of the same name, focuses on the Oakland Athletics baseball team in the early 2000s and their general manager, Billy Beane (played […]

When “Gears of War” first hit the Xbox 360 back in 2006, it became a hit that revolutionized the shooter genre as gamers knew it. Today, the over-the-shoulder cover system alone has become a de facto standard of third-person shooters. Fast forward about 5 years and two sequels later, […]

One thing any seasoned moviegoer will tell you is never trust a trailer to tell you how a movie is going to unfold. Trailers for movies constantly misrepresent what actually happens in the film. However, even going into the theater to see “Straw Dogs” with this knowledge in the […]

The mark of a great story in video games is when you’re more interested in the plot, dialogue and characters than the actual gameplay itself. The mark of great storytelling in video games is when the gameplay actually enhances the experience of the story. “Deus Ex: Human Revolution,” – […]

When I went to see Warrior, I was very skeptical at first. A movie about cage fighting seemed a bit played out, and adding in sibling rivalry wouldn’t help much, but once the movie started I saw that this was not the case.  Warrior is actually a pretty well layered […]