The Kidd Vs. Final Destination 5
If you’ve seen one FINAL DESTINATION movie, you’ve seen them all. Yeah, the actors may change (the character archetypes don’t too much), and the deaths continue to get more outlandish and more creative, but ultimately the formula remains the same. Someone gets a premonition about a freakish tragedy – a plane crash, a highway pile-up, [...]
The Kidd Vs. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
I’m not even going to try to hide the fact that I’m a pretty big GLEE fan. I am a Gleek, guilty as charged, having seasons of the show in my DVD collection, buying all sorts of music from the show via iTunes and fostering longstanding crushes on Dianna Agron and Naya Rivera (Quinn and [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Help
I really should read more often. I have a stack of books that continues to pile up in my office of things I want to read. I have regular novels and graphic novels and memoirs and biographies and more all just waiting for me to put forth a little time and attention to knock titles [...]
The Kidd Vs. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest
It took me awhile to really get into hip hop, to really embrace the talent that exists within the musical genre. I had always been primarily a rock guy, but it wasn’t until I got to college that I really started opening up my mind and my ears to different things and not being so [...]
The Kidd Vs. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
I hate prequels. I really do. I hate everything about them. I hate the fact that they eliminate any type of drama or uncertainty from a film by telling a story that leads up to and ends with the beginning of a story I already know. I hate the way they shoehorn in different facts [...]
The Kidd Vs. Cowboys And Aliens
Daniel Craig wakes up in the middle of nowhere. He’s surrounded by brush and cacti and dirt, only he doesn’t recognize where he is. He has no shoes or boots on, and he has no recollection of how he lost them either. There’s a picture of a young woman buried in the dirt next to [...]
The Kidd Vs. Crazy, Stupid, Love
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE is neither crazy nor stupid. Oh, sure… there are plenty of motions of love in the film, of being in love, of trying to find love, of loving, being lovely, etc. But you can’t tell an idealistic take about love that plays in a realistic world and doesn’t send [...]
The Kidd Vs. Captain America: The First Avenger
At the beginning of the summer, CAPTAIN AMERICA was the one movie I was concerned with the least. After initially being a little disappointed that Chris Evans was being recycled as a superhero (similar to Ryan Reynolds’ double superhero turn), he began to grow on me from everything I had seen in advance. CAPTAIN AMERICA [...]
The Kidd Vs. Friends With Benefits
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS is everything NO STRINGS ATTACHED wishes it could have been, namely raunchy, funny, entertaining, enjoyable to watch and good. After the debacle of the Natalie Portman/Ashton Kutcher about friends who are supposed to just do it but would rather fall into your typical run-of-the-mill romantic comedy, director Will Gluck [...]
The Kidd Vs. A Better Life
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD When I was in film school, I was taught that everyone brings their own baggage into the theatre when they sit down and see a movie. It’s very rare for two people to take away the exact same things from a flick. That’s why some like films others hate and vice versa. [...]
The Kidd Vs. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD As someone who’s read through the entire HARRY POTTER series to know the full depth of the Wizarding World that J.K. Rowling created, I’ve had my share of moments with the film series over the past decade. It’s hard for me to push aside all of the pages I’ve read, all the [...]
The Kidd Vs. Horrible Bosses
HORRIBLE BOSSES has a funny premise – three honest, hard-working best friends trapped under the reigns of three incompetent, ass-backwards, piss poor employers… so why not kill each other’s bosses and be free from the misery? HORRIBLE BOSSES has a funny cast – Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day make up the good guys, [...]
The Kidd Vs. Larry Crowne
Sometimes great actors make bad movies. It’s happened to both Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts before. Thoughts of JOE VS. THE VOLCANO still make me shudder, and the boredom of THE DA VINCI CODE was enough to turn me off to anything Dan Brown has ever written, postcards and grocery lists included. Julia Roberts was [...]
The Kidd Vs. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Okay, let’s just get the answer to the most obvious question concerning TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON first – is TRANSFORMERS 3 better than TRANSFORMERS 2? Yes… yes, it is. But really, any movie not resembling a pile of dog shit containing the famed robots in disguise was going to be better than TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE [...]
The Kidd Vs. Cars 2
I love Pixar. Let me put that out there right now. I am a HUGE fan of everything they’ve done, and it’s remarkable how they’ve already gotten to 25 years in existence, as they don’t feel a day over 12… okay, maybe 13. Time flies when you’re having fun, and since the first TOY STORY, [...]
The Kidd Vs. Submarine
Some movies are better left alone as the books they were adapted from. SUBMARINE is one of those flicks. Richard Ayoade’s directorial debut in bringing to life Joe Dunthorne’s novel of the same name does its best to lift the material right off the page, but, in trying to remain true to the book, does [...]
The Kidd Vs. Mr. Popper’s Penguins
For once… just once… I’d like to see a children’s movie that doesn’t feel the need to add in fart/poop jokes or a swift shot to the testicles in an attempt to grab some cheap laughs, because the rest of the film is less than quality. I actually spent a half-hour on a conference call [...]
The Kidd Vs. Green Lantern
It’s alright for a movie to be so-so. Not ever film has to be great, and not every film has to be terrible. They don’t even have to be good or bad. Sometimes they just fall somewhere in the middle, in that range that calls in average, mediocre and okay. In most cases, you move [...]
The Kidd Vs. Super 8
The Kidd didn’t always have the dream of writing about movies for a living. I never thought I’d own and operate my own movie site. I never imagined I’d be doing what I’m doing now. I tried to make a go of it in radio, but with that industry being torn down due to incompetence, [...]
The Kidd Vs. Midnight In Paris
Years ago, I gave up on Woody Allen as a filmmaker. Don’t get me wrong… Allen has some absolute classics throughout his filmography, and you could easily pick a handful of them and plop down on the couch for one tremendous marathon that puts your Sunday afternoon to good use. However, after awhile, every Woody [...]
The Kidd Vs. X-Men: First Class
The Kidd really has no business liking X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. First of all, I inherently hate prequels. As soon as I hear that a movie is going to make a movie before the original story… you know, the story that wasn’t all that good to use as a starting point in the first place… and [...]
The Kidd Vs. Attack The Block
What would you do if the only place you’ve ever called home was being invaded by aliens? Would you pack up the few valuable and irreplaceable possessions you have and get the fuck out of Dodge, running like hell in the hopes that you can get to safety while the police, the military, the Men [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Tree Of Life
THE TREE OF LIFE might be one of the most ambitious films I’ve ever seen a director attempt to make. But at nearly two-and-a-half hours, it somehow manages to be one of the most rambling, most incomplete, most frustrating films I’ve ever seen a director actually make, too. After stewing over the film for two [...]
The Kidd Vs. The Hangover Part II
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That’s the approach that director Todd Phillips and the Wolfpack – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis – must have taken in concocting THE HANGOVER PART II, the sequel to the successful bachelor party gone out of control hit that landed in theatres just a couple summers [...]
The Kidd Vs. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The fourth installment of the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN series is aptly subtitled ON STRANGER TIDES, because, for the first time in the franchise, one of the films finds itself in completely uncharted waters. The first film (THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL) was fun and entertaining, and made for a pretty good film. It [...]
