The Muppets movie review
As someone born in 1960, I grew up with the Muppets. From “Sesame Street” to their appearances on “Saturday Night Live” to their own television show and films, if the stars of the show were made of felt More...
Twlight: Breaking Dawn part 1 movie review
It would be easy to dismiss the “Twilight” film series as nothing more than a series of chick-flicks with a few monsters thrown in for the guys. But that would do the films a great injustice. Yes, they ARE More...
J Edgar Movie Review
For the past two decades, Hollywood has been on the Clint Eastwood bandwagon. After he won an Oscar for directing “Unforgiven,” (the film also won Best Picture), Eastwood was finally accepted as a filmmaker More...
‘Puss in Boots’ Movie Review
Ah, Shrek. You are truly the Ogre who keeps giving. After four films featuring you and your pals you’ve stepped aside and given us “Puss in Boots,” a film that is simply, along with your studio-mate “Kung More...
“The Thing” Movie Review
Antarctica. 1982. As they track an unknown signal, a group of Norwegian scientists suddenly find themselves swallowed up by a sinkhole in the ice. They discover, buried far below the ice, what appears to be an alien More...
“Real Steel” Movie Review
It started back before the Super Bowl. You can’t have been in America for the past eight months and not been bombarded for commercials touting what I began to refer to as “that Rock’em – Sock’em Robot More...
“Dolphin Tale” Movie Review
Hollywood is full of films with stories that inspire us. “Rudy.” “Rocky.” “The Shawshank Redemption.” These are movies that, when you leave the theatre, stick in your memory long after the lights have More...
‘Moneyball’ movie review
As a kid you always spent your summer memorizing the statistics on the backs of baseball cards. Even the casual fan recognizes certain numbers. 2131 – consecutive games played by Cal Ripken, Jr. (his streak ended More...
‘Contagion’ film review
There’s a great scene in “Along Came Polly” where Ben Stiller discusses the danger of eating from a bowl of mixed nuts at a bar. It goes something like this: “Let’s say, conservatively, I don’t know, More...
‘Warrior’ film review
Philadelphia is known as a sports town. Philly gave us Doug Allison, who history tells us was the first baseball player to wear a glove in the field. Also from the City of Brotherly Love: basketball player Lloyd More...
‘The Debt’ Movie Review
The year is 1997. The place is Tel Aviv, Israel. The occasion is a book launching party for Sarah Gold (Romi Aboulafia). Her book is the story of how three young MOSSAD agents infiltrated East Berlin in 1966 and More...
‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Movie Review
What can I say about the “Planet of the Apes” films? As a child of the late 60’s and early 70’s, nothing beat a film about talking monkeys! There were five original films in all (the last one, “Battle More...
‘Cowboys and Aliens’ movie review
Let me say at the beginning that the film title is not just a clever name. “Cowboys and Aliens” is about, well, cowboys. And aliens. I’m sure the pitch for it was “John Wayne plus “Dances With Wolves” More...
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2’ movie review
It’s been quite an adventure. As I’ve mentioned over the years, I’ve only read the first “Harry Potter” book. Not bad, entertaining story. But I’ve enjoyed all of the films immensely. All seven of them. More...
‘Horrible Bosses’ Movie Review
It looks like Summer 2011 will be remembered as the season of the raunchy adult comedy. We’ve had some winners (“Bridesmaids,” “Hangover II”) and some non-winners (“Bad Teacher”). And now we have More...
‘Larry Crowne’ Movie Review
“You need a college education,” I can remember my parents telling me. Heck, I can hear me telling my son the same thing. Nowadays you can’t even get your foot in the door of a job interview without a little More...
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ movie review
I don’t say this often but I’ll say it here: Michael Bay I apologize. I’ve enjoyed many of his films but always had a problem with the fact that, with the exception of “Armageddon,” as a director he paid More...
‘Green Lantern’ Movie Review
“In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, Beware my power… Green Lantern’s light!“ Pretty cool stuff, huh? Ever since I can remember I’ve More...
Bret Iwan interview (voice of Mickey Mouse)
MovieMikes has prided itself in speaking with some of the great voice talent behind many of Walt Disney’s beloved characters. From Winnie the Pooh to many of the classic Disney Princesses, our readers have asked More...
‘Super 8’ movie review
Somebody loves Steven Spielberg. Somebody besides me, I mean. That somebody is J.J. Abrams, whose new film, “Super 8,” is a homage to the man who will go down as the most successful director in Hollywood history. It’s More...
