“This city can be hard. When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to His children. ‘You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.’”

In a world of page-to-screen adaptions gone oh so wrong, Gone Baby Gone is proof of the good that can come from sticking close to the source material. With little deviation beyond the dictates of its own two hour running time, the film brings Dennis Lehane’s powerhouse novel to life with intelligence and grit to spare.

The story…

Biting sharply into Michael Bay’s box-office hegemony, 20th Century Fox’s “Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes” took the #1 spot this weekend with an extremely healthy $73 million opening. That’s up around 33% from 2011’s “Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes,” a surprise hit that veered very close to $500 million worldwide. A lot of components factored into its success: extremely positive reviews (here’s ours), great word of mouth and little competition And considering Matt Reeves’ sequel is darker, more adult and nowhere near as “crowd-pleasing” as the average blockbuster (at least not in the…

From drug mule to super powered scarcy chick in no time flat, Lucy is quite an intruiging looking film. Although in the last couple of clips, she looks pretty scary. Here she drive through head on traffic, causing wrecks and crazyness without a care in the world.

Godzilla was a supremely disappointing film to me and maybe that’s what makes this so good. Spot on with the Bryan Cranston character. The plot of Godzilla made the amount of sense it would have made if a bunch of monkeys with typewriters typed up the plot…

So yeah, I enjoyed this.

Seven years after the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment of the series, the boy wizard is back for more adventure. Only he’s not a boy anymore.

In a new Harry Potter story posted this morning on Pottermore, J.K. Rowling sends Harry, now 34, to the Patagonian Desert for the Quidditch World Cup. Naturally, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and Luna are there with him — as is The Daily Prophet‘s Rita Skeeter, who still has plenty to say about the gang.

I’m really sad that I’ve been way to busy to check this out yet. I want to read this very badly. My…

Released in 2011, Rise of the Planet of the Apes showed that there was still life in the venerable Apes franchise. It looks like that was no fluke; the critics say Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is everything a sequel should be: visually striking, emotionally resonant, and intellectually weighty.

Yay! Currently at 92% critic rating. I’m pretty optimistic about this one. We’ll be talking about it next week on The MovieByte Podcast and I am betting you won’t want to miss it!

Man, at this point, I’m trying to protect myself from getting to amped up about this film because I don’t want to be disappointed. But I just almost can’t help it. It just looks so fantastic.

This is the longest and the best trailer for the film yet. You watch this and tell me you aren’t excited because I don’t think you can do it. And we don’t have long to wait now. The film hits theaters on August, 2014.

In many ways, I have never been satisfied with Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments. It didn’t always stick to the biblical tale that I grew up with, and at many points in that film, it feels like the drama is somewhat manufactured.

Enter the director of Gladiator, Ridley Scott. Yes, he can be a bit hit or miss, but he has done a few great films over the years. And I bring up Gladiator because it’s probably the most relevant for a film set in ancient egypt of Bible times. Gladiator is one of my top all time films and possibly the best film Ridley Scott has done to date (I know these…

I remain optimistic for this upcoming film, but I can tell you right now that we’re going to be in for some violence and blood, and probably lots of other disturbing things. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) does not look like a woman to be messed with.

This film comes to us from Director Luc Benson who also directed The Fifth Element a fairly decent Sci-Fi film starring Bruce Willis. In fact, many people consider that to be Benson’s last decent film. But given that this film looks similar in some respects to that film, I’m quite looking forward to seeing what the he has in store for us in this…