Author: Brandon Fibbs

When the space shuttle Atlantis touches down in Florida on Thursday, the United States will no longer possess the technology to launch a human being into space, nor will it have any vehicle on the drawing board capable of doing so.    Nearly eight years ago, President George Bush instructed NASA to finish the space…

Like the boy that shares its name, the Harry Potter series stumbled from the gate, saddled not entirely unexpectedly with inexperience and immaturity. But then, as with the boy, something truly wonderful—even magical—happened. It grew into something to be immensely, colossally, button-poppingly proud of. Unlike nearly every adaptation Hollywood produces, the Harry Potter films, taken…

1 OUT OF 4 STARS   It is no secret that I disliked the first two Transformers films. In fact, I employ no hyperbole whatsoever in admitting that I, for lack of a more expressive word, utterly loathed them. There are those who claim Transformers: Dark of the Moon is light years better than its…

Proving definitively that his remarkable freshman effort, “Moon,” was anything but luck or chance, director Duncan Jones returns with “Source Code,” a less meditative and ambitious film than his last outing, but one that meets the criteria required of the very best mainstream entertainment in spades. Screenwriting teachers will tell you that if you don’t…

We brought you the trailer a while back, now here’s the review. Opens at Kimball’s this Friday.   It is ironic that Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel “Jane Eyre,” one of the books that could be most relied upon to elicit groans and yawns from a high school English class, is also one of literature’s most…

It is ironic that Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel “Jane Eyre,” one of the books that could be most relied upon to elicit groans and yawns from a high school English class, is also one of literature’s most frequently adapted for the screen. For this reason, and because it has been done very well in the…

Opens today in Colorado Springs theaters!   An ambitious, epic, operatic action delirium, the dark and intensely violent “Sucker Punch” is “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on acid. The film is a glorious disaster, a mind-bogglingly messy, perversely gorgeous piece of hyperstylized filmmaking that chills the blood one moment and thrills it the next.…

From their inspired horror spoof “Shaun of the Dead,” to their enjoyable action movie send-up “Hot Fuzz,” to their new cute and clever alien road movie “Paul,” Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have proven there is no genre outside their range or comedic abilities.Pegg and Frost play two British sci-fi nerds who make a Winnebago…

From their inspired horror spoof “Shaun of the Dead,” to their enjoyable action movie send-up “Hot Fuzz,” to their new cute and clever alien road movie “Paul,” Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have proven there is no genre outside their range or comedic abilities.Pegg and Frost play two British sci-fi nerds who make a Winnebago…