Jeff Beck Reviews: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Edgar Wright’s long-awaited adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” graphic novel series is finally here. Being a big fan of the graphic novels and hearing Wright’s name attached to [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Other Guys
Looking through Will Ferrell’s filmography is like navigating a minefield of bad decisions. This includes such films as “Land of the Lost,” “Step Brothers,” “Semi-Pro,” “Blades of Glory,” and “Talladega [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Dinner for Schmucks
Here’s a film I’ve been dreading ever since the first trailers and TV spots started rolling. They made this film look like it was going to be something of an [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Salt
This is one of those movies that it seems like we’ve been hearing about for a long time now. “Salt” was originally scripted for a male lead with Tom Cruise [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” reunites director Jon Turteltaub with actor Nicolas Cage, who had both previously worked on the underrated “National Treasure” films. While those films had been fun and full [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Inception
In my humble opinion, Christopher Nolan is the single greatest filmmaker working today. Yes, even better than Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. No one can tell a story quite like [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Predators
Back in 1987, a small film called “Predator” rolled into theaters. It wasn’t the kind of film that you would expect to become a staple of the sci-fi/action genre, but [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Despicable Me
In a summer that’s been dominated by Pixar’s “Toy Story 3″ comes a smaller animated film entitled “Despicable Me” that was barely even on my radar before I attended the [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Last Airbender
M. Night Shyamalan has been having quite a troubled career. He started off so well with the innovative and creepy “The Sixth Sense” and would go on to make a [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The first thing I had to do before watching the latest installment in the “Twilight” series was to go back and reread my review of the previous entry, “New Moon,” [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Knight and Day
James Mangold’s “Knight and Day” is an action-packed, edge of your seat thrill ride that barely pauses long enough for you to take a breath. It’s the kind of movie [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Grown Ups
There are two things you need to know about “Grown Ups” before you even think about possibly seeing it. First, it stars “Saturday Night Live” alum Adam Sandler, who hasn’t [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Jonah Hex
“Jonah Hex” is a film that was riddled with bad publicity from the start. Early test screenings of the film were calling it a disaster, and even after some reshoots [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Toy Story 3
More than ten years after the last sequel to the original animated hit, Pixar finally brings us the latest chapter in the “Toy Story” series. The first two films are [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Splice
“Splice” is one of those experiment-gone-wrong stories in the tradition of “Frankenstein” or “The Fly.” They tend to involve interesting ideas about what can happen when one pushes the boundaries [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The A-Team
“The A-Team,” an adaptation of the famous television show from the ’80s, is best compared to another recent film, “The Losers.” Both films are silly, over-the-top, and include action sequences [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Karate Kid (2010)
The vast originality of Hollywood strikes again with an update of “The Karate Kid,” a small film that became very popular and even spawned several sequels. Why on Earth somebody [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Get Him to the Greek
Nicholas Stoller’s “Get Him to the Greek” is not exactly built off of an original character. How many times before have we seen alcohol, drugs, and promiscuous behavior get in [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Killers
Robert Luketic’s “Killers” takes a worn out premise and somehow manages to make it feel even more tired than before. What we basically have here is a film that is [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
“Prince of Persia” is the latest video game to get adapted into a motion picture. I learn from the always-resourceful Wikipedia that the video game series started back in 1989 [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Shrek Forever After
It’s hard to believe it’s already been nine years since the original “Shrek” came to theaters. It was an amazing sight to behold; a film that was a great mixture [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: MacGruber
Jorma Taccone’s “MacGruber” is a great example of just how far “Saturday Night Live” has fallen in the last several years. A show that once held great comedic talents has [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Secret in Their Eyes
One of the big shocks of the Oscars this year came when Juan José Campanella’s “The Secret in Their Eyes” beat out the front-runner, Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon,” the [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Just Wright
I remember watching this film a couple of weeks back when it was called “The Back-Up Plan” and before that it was known by many other titles. Sure the plots [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Robin Hood
It’s hard to say just how many different version of the Robin Hood legend there have been on film. It seems everyone has tried to tackle it at one time [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Babies
I’ve written before about how documentaries must follow the main rule of being about an interesting subject. “Babies,” the new documentary by Thomas Balmes, doesn’t have this problem as babies [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: Iron Man 2
The long-awaited sequel to 2008′s mega-blockbuster has finally arrived, and with it, everyone’s favorite narcissist-turned-humanitarian Tony Stark. The debate has already begun as to whether or not “Iron Man 2″ [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Losers
Sylvain White’s “The Losers” is the most entertaining film of the year so far. It’s loud, full of explosions, and contains 2-D characters, but none of that ends up mattering [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
It’s been more than 25 years since Wes Craven gave us the original horror classic, and now, several sequels later, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” gets an update with fresh [...]
Jeff Beck Reviews: The Back-up Plan
Alan Poul’s “The Back-Up Plan” is another film in a long line of films that are formulaic to the bone, containing little to no originality, all while following around characters [...]
