Jacob Boon

Labelling this “the Jewish Exorcist” wouldn’t begin to cover the recycled influences at work in the tamely titled The Possession, but it’s a good start. Divorced dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) wants to be there for his daughters and reconcile with overprotective mother (Kyra Sedgwick). But their boring lives are threatened when daughter Emily acquires the […]

Malevolent supernatural entities get a suitable vessel for their evil, household mould and mildew, in the eerily stupid The Apparition. Young homeowners in a newly built subdivision, Kelly (Twilight‘s Ashley Greene) and Ben (Captain America‘s Sebastian Stan) unknowingly become the target of one of those evil phantoms college kids are always conjuring up. This particular […]

New York’s newest superhero rides a fixie in the non-stop Premium Rush; a cyclist porn chase flick starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Levitt plays Wilee (like the Roadrunner-chasing coyote) a high speed bike messenger who proudly zips around Manhattan on a fixed gear, steel frame bike with no brakes. After picking up a seemingly ordinary delivery from […]

Real-life sweethearts Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard give audiences a window into their relationship in the mostly mundane car chaser Hit and Run. When college prof Annie (Bell) gets a once-in-a-lifetime job offer, fiance Charlie (Shepard) decides to leave witness protection and drive her to their new life. But a jealous ex-boyfriend, and the violent […]

Sylvester Stallone and his merry macho men are back to shoot shit…and this time, it’s personal. When one of their own is killed, Barney Ross (Stallone) and his bad-ass crew of mercenaries are propelled from their usual multi-national hooliganism into a more focused form of obliteration. Thankfully, *Expendables 2* trims away much of the love […]

Perhaps the first grindhouse inspired, stop-motion, children’s horror movie about friendship, ParaNorman proves wickedly fun no matter what your age. Eleven-year-old Norman is unfortunately ostracized at home and school over his unique ability to see and speak with the dead. But when the ghost of his deranged uncle (John Goodman) tasks him with stopping a […]

Stranger Than Fiction blends with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the new metafictional romance Ruby Sparks. Awkward author Calvin (There Will Be Blood‘s Paul Dano) finds a cure for his writer’s block imagining the most manic, pixiest, dreamiest girl possible. Which makes things pretty confusing when she shows up, fully formed as his […]

How late is too late to rekindle the flames of passion? That’s the question in the honest and surprisingly adult Hope Springs. Though married for 31 years, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have long ago drifted away from any sort of intimacy. Much to Arnold’s chagrin, Kay boldly signs the couple up […]

Sci-fi futurism gets smothered with banality in the barely remade Total Recall. Bored with having a steady job in a dystopian Earth that’s 98% uninhabitable, factory worker Quaid (a remarkably lifeless Colin Farrell) visits the memory-altering Rekall spa. A quick session to be the secret agent of his dreams later, and Quaid is being hunted […]

About as deep as the popular young adult pages that spawned it, the dorky humour of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days isn’t entirely unpalatable. When his dad outlaws video games for the summer, socially awkward Greg decides to spend his days sneaking into the nearby country club for swimming, smoothies and potential smooches […]

It’s Ghostbusters meets The Burbs in the unfortunately flat alien invasion comedy The Watch. When a Costco security guard is gruesomely killed, manager Ben Stiller organizes a neighbourhood watch comprised of police force reject Jonah Hill, newcomer Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd), and Vince Vaughn. Despite their bumbling ineffectualness, the foursome somehow uncover an alien […]