The Spectacular Now. For the Misfits, it wasn't all that spectacular--then, now, or later. The World's End. If the world's got to end, this isn't such a bad way to go: beer, robots, and laughs. The Butler. Apparently, the butler didn't do it, Lee Da

2 Guns. It has all the elements found in a Tarantino film: a crazy diner scene, a non-linear timeline, and a couple of bickering anti-heroes exchanging clever quips. Unfortunately, what it doesn't have is Quentin Tarantino. The Sapphires. This film

R.I.P.D. Maybe the ad campaign for this film should have been a variation on the old Certs commercial. "It's a ripoff of Men in Black." "No, it's a ripoff of Ghostbusters." "No, it's two, two, two ripoffs in one!" Red 2. What if they had a Cold War

This is the End. If you're looking for a funny, clever film about Armageddon, forget what Jim Morrison said. This is the End is definitely not your friend. Solomon Kane. Finally someone has managed to do justice to Robert E. Howard's vision and put it

White House Down. Once you've said Channing Tatum's acting is the best thing in a movie, you've pretty much said all you need to know about a film. World War Z. While most summer blockbusters have a 2 or 3 after their titles and are walking dead versio

Now You See Me. The only thing the magicians make disappear in this movie is story logic. After Earth. It's not as bad as The Last Airbender or Devil, but it's definitely not as good as The Sixth Sense. So where does that leave M. Night Shyamalan? Af

Iron Man 3. Although writer/director Shane Black turns in one of the better super hero movies in recent years, it is almost undone by a severe case of 3rd act elephantitis. Oblivion. This film has any number of homages, or, if you’re less generous, r

The Great Gatsby. The eyes of T. J. Eckleburg have nothing on the Misfits. In this Special Great Gatsby Episode, we stare long and hard at three of Hollywood's attempts to bring F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic to the screen. Like the bespectacled eyes of

6 'n 90!  Da Man reviews six films. Olympus Has Fallen.  Here's a film in desperate need of screenwriting "Life Alert."  Perhaps a better title would have been Olympus Has Fallen and It Can't Get Up. Mud. You can't always judge a film by its pos

Admissions. Paul Rudd continues his relentless campaign to appear in every lame comedy released in theaters. With Prince Avalanche, Almost Christmas, and This is the End still to be released this year, the question has to be asked: Has some evil genius