GANGSTER SQUAD (2013)

TMG Scale 7.0    MPAA Rating: R   Starring Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Nolte …and on screen, Sean Penn TMG refuses to say Sean Penn “starred” in this film. Penn plays an arrogant and untalented Los Angeles thug, mob...

ZERO DARK THIRTY (2012)

TMG Scale 3.0    MPAA Rating: R Starring Jessica Chastain….and some other folks. SHORT REVIEW: If Director Kathryn Bigelow’s  purpose was to convince me that CIA work is long, tedious and very boring,  SHE CONVINCED  ME! My advice if you have not see Zero...

MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)

TMG Scale 9.0    MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring Ed Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel Short Review: Sam is a Khaki Scout (boy scout) in a 1965 New England outpost or island or some such magical little spit of land and time where boys were...

ROCK OF AGES (2012)

TMG Scale 7.0    MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring Tom Cruise, Alex Baldwin, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti, Catherine Zeta-Jones Not at all what I expected.  A bit corny (most musicals are at times) and oddly constructed, it was still a fairly good time. I would have...

DARK SHADOWS (2012)

TMG Scale 8.5    MPAA Rating: PG-13 Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeifer, Helena Bohman Carter, Chloe Grace Moretz, Eva Green Fun. Funny. Very retro. Depp doing Depp at his best! And surprisingly a genuinely sound storyline. If you were born too late to enjoy the...