Jacob Boon

The continually ending end of exorcisms continue in the unfortunately amusing scary movie, The Last Exorcism: Part 2. Ditching the found-footage aesthetic of its predecessor, this sequel finds teenage demonic vessel Ashley Bell alone, amnesiac and put into a hazy New Orleans’ home for wayward girls. She makes some friends, flirts with boys and everything […]

The latest in high-fantasy action retellings of folk fairytales, Jack the Giant Slayer thankfully kicks away any notion of maturity in favour of a big ole’ romp with giants. Notable franchise star Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: First Class, Warm Bodies) stars as farm boy Jack, who’s unwitting plantation of magical beans bridges the chasm between the […]

Everyone on all sides of the drug war is a big, giant jerk except for The Rock in the engaging little drama, Snitch. After his son is illogically given 30 years jail time for accepting a parcel of pills, hard-working divorced dad The Rock agrees to work with federal prosecutors in a mindbogglingly stupid attempt […]

Life exists elsewhere in the universe, and it’s a big fan of the Paranormal Activity movies, in the new alien abduction horror flick Dark Skies. A modern family of Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton and a couple of bratty kids already has enough financial and familial stresses to handle before sensing a disturbing presence pranking their […]

Sleepwalking is to be expected when Rooney Mara starts taking a new anti-depressant in Side Effects, but could those side effects also include…murder? Mara plays the psychologically rattled ingenue whose therapist (Jude Law) puts her on daring new drug. A prescription that may or may not be what causes her to kill adoring ex-con husband […]

Sylvester Stallone’s grizzled hit man really didn’t need a day like this, you know? Playing resigned contract killer Jimmy Bobo with a crunchy sorta detachment, Stallone headlines the hard-boiled gangster flick Bullet to the Head. When Bobo is screwed over and his partner killed, the longtime thug must team up with a visiting detective (Sung […]

After serving a 28-year stint, Al Pacino’s low-level criminal gets paroled and picked up by now equally elderly best friend Christopher Walken. Together with old getaway driver Alan Arkin, the three spend an evening on the town visiting brothels, flirting with waitresses and snorting crushed up prescription pills. It’s a sad, pathetic party in the […]

A promising premise is frustratingly under-utilized in Warm Bodies, a zombie romantic comedy without any brains. In a post-zombie apocalypse world, survivors struggle to find food and medicine while avoiding packs of roaming corpses. But after kidnapping a young woman he’s attracted to (because he’s stolen the memories of her boyfriend by eating his brains), […]

The steamy escapades of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (America’s sexiest president) come to light in the dumb little historical comedy, Hyde Park on Hudson. Kind of doing a reverse Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, Bill Murray barely stars as the cigarette-smoking prez who entertains the visiting King and Queen of Canada at his country estate while […]

Failing in nearly all aspects, here comes the latest fairy tale turned hyper-action flick, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. After escaping from near death in a candy house as children, the sibling duo of Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton make a career out of shotgunning evil witches via a number of widely anachronistic weapons. But […]