By Bob Garver “Tower Heist” is one of the better dumb movies I’ve seen lately. It’s good for some cheap laughs, which is fine because it promises nothing more than cheap laughs. A movie like this will never be mistaken for anything of legitimate high quality but it far exceeds bad films with delusions of […]
By Bob Garver Seven years ago, swarthy assassin-turned-good-guy Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) stole the show in “Shrek 2”. The film itself was clever and funny and Puss made it even better. As the series went along it the films became much worse and Puss became less appealing along with them. Now the decision has […]
By BOB GARVER “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is a scary concept. I’m not talking about the plot (although I guess the idea of aggressive, super-intelligent apes taking over the planet is kind of scary), I’m talking about the idea of the movie itself. Nobody was asking for a prequel of the 1968 […]