Imagine for a moment a musician watching a movie about musicians. In the movie it is assumed that all musicians can play the piano. I suppose that the piano is a very common instrument that many musicians do play, so I can understand how someone might make that leap if they weren't a fan of music. A man on the street might see this movie where all musicians can play the piano and enjoy it very much. He might even compliment how well it was thought out and written. But a musician would walk away from the movie and say that it was very poorly written and not very though out. Hopefully, you and I can agree that the musician is not uptight or acting like a "know-it-all" because of this opinion. He simply has some information that the man on the street does not. The man on the street isn't stupid. He just hasn't spent any time looking into what it means to be a musician. Why am I saying all of this when I'm supposed to be reviewing the movie "Legion...

After seeing this Post-Apocalyptic movie by the Hughes Brothers, the first question I asked out loud was "How did this movie get through the Hollywood system?" More on that in a moment. This movie takes place 30 years after "the flash", which we can assume is some form of nuclear holocaust. Eli, played by Denzel Washington, is traveling across the scorched landscape on a mission to deliver a book to an unknown destination in the west. He passes through a small "town" ruled by a local overlord named Carnegie, played by Gary Oldman. Carnegie is in search of a very specific book that he believes will give him the power to manipulate and control those around him like never before. Eli recognizes the potential for the book he carries to be used in that way, but also knows that in the right hands it will bring about goodness and restoration to the entire world. Within the first 30 minutes or so, it becomes clear that this book is the Bible. You heard me...

I like a good vampire flick now and then, but these days it’s hard to bring something new to the genre and still leave it feeling like a proper vampire story. The “Underworld” movies brought a sense of cool superhero action to the genre. So did Blade and Ultraviolet, but the former is even more a straight superhero flick with a vampire theme and the latter is barely recognizable as a vampire story at all. Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Defoe and Sam Neill, creates an entirely new vampire story while keeping it firmly in the genre. 10 years into the future, over 95% of the human population is made up of vampires. Normal humans are an endangered species, hunted down to be placed in “blood farms” to supply food for a starving population of vampires. Ethan Hawke is a scientist looking for a blood substitute, but he may have just stumbled on a cure. A cure that his company doesn’t want, since it will mean the end of the blood farming business. Naturally ...

Lately I've felt like I haven't seen a really good movie in awhile. Looking back at my reviews, I realized that I haven't seen a new movie that I really enjoyed a lot since late September! Thankfully, that good movie itch has finally been scratched by an independent gem now on DVD called "Moon", directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell. The basic premise is that in the future, we have discovered a plentiful source of energy on the dark side of the moon and keep a single astronaut there in three-year shifts to refine it and send it back to us periodically. Sam Rockwell plays an astronaut who is just two weeks away from the end of his shift, when he starts to notice some strange things happening around him. By the end of the first third of the film, we discover a major revelation that we spend much of the rest of the film trying to understand. It's unfortunate that I don't feel free to tell you more about the plot of the film, but the unfo...