Review: Grabbers

Good, clean genre entertainment, the sort of harmless yet endearing brand of moviemaking seemingly unattainable in today’s Hollywood system.

Review: Aliens: Colonial Marines

Enemies resemble jerky marionettes tossed at your face and the neat addition of the motion tracker from Aliens adds little pressure to the proceedings when the level designs are extremely linear.

Critical Distance: The Avengers

Critics get a bad wrap for being “out of touch” with the masses, but Tomatometer listings indicate that critics have been surprisingly forgiving of superhero fare.

5 for the Day: Motherhood

My Mom is a larger than life character crafted with one part June Cleaver, two parts Mahalia Jackson, three parts Oprah, and four parts Dorothy Parker.