With a title like 3 Days To Kill, you’d expect there to be a constant ticking clock device propelling the characters through the plot and keeping us on the edge of our seats. Why, then, are we given notice even before the main titles are presented that the main character, Ethan Renner, is dying of some type of cancer, only to turn around and give him an arbitrary deadline by a CIA operative to track down and kill some foolish baddies for a possible cure to said cancer. Not much tension in that description, now, is there? Don’t Stop — There’s Plenty More

As long as there are movie trailers, there will always be some movies that are advertised one way but turn out to be something far different. Whether it be in tone, plot or character, the studio’s marketing department chooses to tease the audience into thinking one thing only to throw you a curveball that spins your head a little in confusion. And though the marketing behind Akiva Goldsman’s new film, Winter’s Tale, wasn’t completely unrelated to the actual events of the film, it still left me a little off-center at how they chose to deal with the magic and the miracles of human interaction and love. Don’t Stop — There’s Plenty More

Anyone who has ever played with LEGO bricks knows that if you have enough pieces of the right color, shape and size you can build almost anything your imagination desires. If you don’t, you can still build pretty much anything you want, as your imagination is only bound by the lack of the pieces themselves (and even then, you can always get by without a door here or a wheel there). So when directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were given the reins (and an unlimited stock of bricks thanks to the boundless resources of computer animation) to create The LEGO Movie, a feature film based on the ageless toy, they didn’t hold back one bit, utilizing almost every piece in just the right way. Don’t Stop — There’s Plenty More

Let’s set the scene: Jason and his newest lady friend, Ellie, are lying together in bed having just completed their latest act of sexual mingling. Ellie, a little upset with herself, playfully says she was going to make him wait and suffer before giving into him (after having been ditched the last time over an oddly-reasoned misunderstanding). Jason smiles. “Yeah, I was going to do that too. Then I remembered… I’m a dude.” That small, seemingly throw-away scene perfectly sets the tone for That Awkward Moment, the closest thing I think we’ll ever come to getting a romantic comedy for men. Don’t Stop — There’s Plenty More