Ice Age

Review by Bob Ignizio

Wow, is ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE seriously the fifth film in the ICE AGE franchise? For those unfamiliar with the series, it involves a group of prehistoric mammals: mammoths Mannie (voiced by Ray Romano), Ellie (voiced by Queen Latifah), Peaches (Keke Palmer), and Julian (Adam Devine); saber tooth tigers Diego (Dennis Leary) and Shira (Jennifer Lopez); sloths Sid (John Leguizamo) and Granny (Wanda Sykes); opossums Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck); and finally, somewhat unbalanced weasel Buck (Simon Pegg).

22 Jump Street

Review by Pete Roche

We didn’t catch 21 JUMP STREET in theatres in 2012.  Sure, we saw all the posters advertising the Jonah Hill / Channing Tatum police comedy, but didn’t think in a million years that a farcical movie adaptation of FOX’s hip late ‘80s crime series would fly.  

After all, the TV show (1987-1991) was a dark, edgy drama starring an up-and-coming Johnny Depp.  Both Hill and Tatum had already racked up some hot-shot cinema creds (Hill for SUPERBAD and MONEYBALL, Tatum for STEP UP and G.I. JOE:  RISE OF COBRA), but what were the chances their buddy cop caper would hit with audiences?