Bru’s Reviews: MONSTERS UNIVERSITY GRADUATES WITH FLYING (AND BRILLIANTLY ANIMATED) COLORS

All written content and Bru-Hed visuals are ©2013 Mike Pascale. Bru-Hed is ™ and ©2013 All Ages Media/Mike Pascale. Other visual content ©2013 its respective owner(s). Hey, hey hey, my many manly movie mavens and mavettes! (Is that a woid? Screw it. It is now.) It’s yer flippant, filmgoin’ friend, Bru-Hed, here with another realistic review for you and your crew. This one is gonna be a bit different because MY opinion (i.e., the RIGHT…

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Bru’s Reviews: SUPERMAN, MAN OF STEEL IS BULLETPROOF BUT NOT BOREDOM-PROOF

Written by Bru-Hed All written content ©2013 Mike Pascale. Bru-Hed is ™ and ©2013 All Ages Media/Mike Pascale. Other visual content ©2013 its respective owner(s). Look! Up in the sky! It’s a boid! It’s a plane! It’s a hot, brooding, British Christ-figure in a cape!

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Bru’s Reviews: FAST AND FURIOUS 6 Isn’t Slow And Relaxing!

Written by Bru-Hed All written content ©2013 Mike Pascale. Bru-Hed is ™ and ©2013 All Ages Media/Mike Pascale. Other visual content ©2013 its respective owner(s). Yo ho ho, all you Hoes and Broes! It’s yer beer-bellied buddy Bru to enlighten you to all things sin-ematic. Today we briefly discuss FAST AND FURIOUS 6, the newest entry in the franchise for speedfreaks, gearheads, oilbrains and butt-lovers!

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Bru’s Reviews: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS…And Franchise History!

All written content ©2013 Mike Pascale. Bru-Hed is ™ and ©2013 All Ages Media/Mike Pascale. Other visual content ©2013 its respective owner(s). Hey again, geeksters and geekettes! It’s your pal Bru with another first-run review of a pre-summer blockbuster! I ain’t a Trekkie or Trekkor or Trekkle or whatever, but I have watched the old STAR TREK series because I love the way Captain Kirk gets to bed all the alien hotties. So I figured…

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Welcome to BRU’S REVIEWS! No-spoilers–or snoozers–for IRON MAN 3

All written content ©2013 Mike Pascale. Bru-Hed is ™ and ©2013 All Ages Media/Mike Pascale. Other visual content ©2013 its respective owner(s). Hey, you mugs and muggles! It’s me, yer ol’ pal Bru-Hed, back for more! I took a break from blogging to let you all bask in my awesomeness and absorb my greatness (much like the seat of my recliner absorbs all my wondrous odors and stains) while I rested and recharged. Since that…

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Bru’s Reviews: Life Of Pi and Rise Of The Guardians (NO spoilers)

Pop culture and other perspectives with an artistic P.O.V. By Mike Pascale. All contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. Visual content ©2012 their respective owner(s). For anyone new, my movie reviews are purposely different than most others you’ll read. Rather than bore you with plot details you can find anywhere or attempt to impress you with pompous pedantry, I prefer to boil films down to bullet points describing what I think are the major Pros and…

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Bru’s Reviews – Paranorman; Or, Things That Go Bump In The Phil Knight Company

A Picture’s Worth #95: “Spoiler-Free Review of Paranorman; Or, Things That Go Bump In The Phil Knight Company” Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. Visuals copyright and trademark their respective owners. [sorry it’s late folks! I was out of town and expected to be home Sunday night…instead, just got home now! -Craig] Quick movie review this week of PARANORMAN, the second stop-motion-animated installment from the Portland, Oregon-based Laika studio (directed by writer Chris Butler and Sam…

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Bru’s Reviews – The Expendables 2; Or, “Testosteronorama 2: Macho Overload”

Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. Visuals copyright and trademark their respective owners. Quick movie review this week of THE EXPENDABLES 2; the Simon West-directed sequel to the sausage-fest of septuagenarian superstars and quadragenarian karate-kings featuring ageless (or aging) action-adventurers Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van-Damme and special sexagenarian Arnold Schwarzenegger, plus a token kickass female (Yu Nan) and Gen-Yer (Liam Hemsworth of THE…

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Bru’s Reviews – TOTAL RECALL and BOURNE LEGACY ; or: Farrell vs. Schwarzenegger, Bourne vs. Hawkeye

Hey, Gang–I’m pretty shook up right now at the passing of my teacher, and one of my favorite artists/storytellers, Joe Kubert. I’ll post a proper tribute later when I can better collect and organize my thoughts. So I’m running the column I planned earlier. Thanks, Mike. ********************************** Pausing in my Comic-Con International (aka, San Diego Comic-Con) panel wrap-ups for a couple topical movie reviews, Total Recall and The Bourne Legacy.

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Bru’s Reviews – BRAVE REVIEWS OF PROMETHEUS, PIXAR AND PURCELL

Contents ©2012 Mike Pascale. Visuals copyright and trademark their respective owners. A couple movie reviews, for those like me who have been a bit late with the new releases: First, PROMETHEUS, the “ALIEN prequel” from original director Ridley Scott. Overall: