Sean Smithson

Tom Cruise Blasts The Alien Threat To The EDGE OF TOMORROW

Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s cult novel of military sci-fi action ALL YOU NEED IS KILL was a quiet sensation, slowly building from fan favorite to industry hot property. Now, after a little re-tooling and some Americanization, the big screen version starring Tom Cruise (as the re-named hero Cage), and Emily Blunt as the heroine fighter named Rita […]

 Sean Smithson

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST Is A Mixed Saddlebag

Albert (Seth McFarlane) is a meek sheep farmer who loses his love Louise (Amanda Seyfried) to a local dandy Foy (Neil Patrick Harris) who also happens to be wildly succesful as the owner of the local “moustachery”, as well as a lethal shot with a six-shooter. Things start turning around with the arrival of the […]

 Sean Smithson

CHEF Plates Up A Sentimental And Fun Meal

CHEF Plates Up A Sentimental And Fun Meal

Carl Casper (Jon Favreau) is a sub-lebrity chef working in an upscale, but uneventful restaurant, cooking a menu that has become rote, cliche, and lifeless. When the chef and his team, mainly two right hand men Martin and Tony (John Leguizamo and Bobby Cannavale), have a chance to really shine when local power-blogging food critic […]

 Sean Smithson

GODZILLA STOMPS BACK TO THE TOP OF THE HEAP

After seeing Gareth Edwards’ feature debut MONSTERS back in 2010, I knew immediately this creative dynamo was going to be a force to be reckoned with. MONSTERS, about a news photographer helping his bosses daughter flee Mexico as giant squid-like alien invaders terrorize the countryside, was an exercise in character rather than being anything close […]

 Sean Smithson

The EVIL DEAD Has No Soul To Swallow

The EVIL DEAD Has No Soul To Swallow

Full disclosure: I cut classes on a regular basis my junior year in high school to watch my Betamax copy of Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead on a loop, while smoking Camel’s and listening to my homemade bootleg recording of Exodus