Jacob Boon

The ocean is foreboding, but not always that exciting in the historical sailing drama, Kon-Tiki. Already Oscar-nominated, Norway’s most expensive production is a big-budget retelling of national hero Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 expedition across the South Pacific. Attempting to prove wrong the prevailing theories that Polynesia was settled from the west, ethnographer Heyerdahl (played by mouthful […]

Multicultural swarms of CGI people are attacking and the planet is helpless to stop them, until Brad Pitt decides he’s had enough. Or so goes the slim plot of World War Z (American title: World War Zee), which shoehorns a stoic Pitt into a variety of global set pieces as he attempts to traces the […]

Superman deals with daddy issues while killing thousands in the amazingly off-mark Man of Steel. Years ago, on a far away planet called Krypton, two married scientists…what’s that? You already know Superman’s origin? Well too bad, because director Zack Snyder is going to waste forty minutes to retell the beginnings of the most well-known fantasy […]

The apocalypse is as good a time as any for a crew of vapid actors to deal with their issues in This Is The End. Featuring a slew of Apatow-regulars (Apatownies?), TITE features the end of the earth raining down upon California. That such devastation (and the rapturing of good souls to Heaven) is entirely […]

Two old men illustrate how silly young people are (with their Twitters and their Instagrams) in the depressing comedy, The Internship. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, but as laid off salesmen looking to switch careers. Vaughn signs them up to compete for an internship at Google, for no clear […]

Everyone tries hard, but it’s impossible to navigate through a premise as stupid as The Purge. In the near-future, America maintains low unemployment and crime rates through an annual, 12-hour period of lawlessness. Wealthy home security designer James (Ethan Hawke) and his family lockdown their Panic Room-esque house for this year’s purge, but young son […]

Illusions fly across the screen expecting applause in Now You See Me, a prestidigitation caper that manages to drain away anything close to movie magic. Four down on their luck magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher and Dave Franco) are drawn together to perform a series of complicated robberies given the appearance of Vegas […]

Rarely is a film so clumsily stitched together as in the surgical freak fest American Mary. Med school costing an arm and a leg, young Mary strikes out on her own as an underground body modification surgeon with a taste for torture. A logical career move, as apparently every other working surgeon in Seattle is […]

There’s really not much separating epic, the CGI feature about a tiny world of eco-warriors and their talking animal pals, from 1992’s FernGully. But, everyone liked FernGully, right? Amanda Seyfried lends her voice to M.K., a sunken teenager who shrinks down and discovers a secret world of tiny magic after moving in with her estranged […]

Centuries from now, a starship crashes on what remains of Earth, letting loose a terrible alien predator and forcing young Son of Will Smith to hunt for a distress beacon thousands of kilometres away. So goes the basic premise of After Earth, the newest home movie for father/son pair Will and Jaden Smith. Will dials […]

The epic conclusion to three quarters of an idea stretched into a trilogy of movies arrives in The Hangover Part 3. To track down the crazed Leslie Chow (Ken Jeong), mob boss John Goodman forcibly recruits the Wolfpack (Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis). Deviating even slightly from the carbon copy Hangover 2 at least […]

Possibly the most consistent American fantasy film franchise comes roaring back into theatres with Fast & Furious 6. Getting a little too old for this shit, F&F6 finds Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto bringing his crew of superhumanly gifted car thieves out of retirement to rescue ex-girlfriend and previously dead Michelle Rodriguez from a dangerous, international […]