When you watch a film called ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER, the first question that usually hits someone would be "Why?". And one would hope that finding out the answer to that question would be part of the joy of watching such a bizarre alternate universe take on a historical American figure. Sadly, what the audience is in for falls very far from this train of thought and wanders into territories that are both strange and sour to the taste.

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While the film does serve up the expected litany of extraordinary leaps (and lapses) of logic, over-the-top comic book ham-fistery and some storytelling laziness, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN actually succeeds in living up to its name by delivering a cinematic Spidey experience that comic book fans have been waiting for since the character's creation in 1962. The primary problem with Sam Raimi's financially successful trilogy, that came to end barely five years prior, is that it presented a version of the…

Perfection is a term that you have to be careful with before you dare to throw it around. It implies a kind of unique, finely-tuned, high-water mark that could almost not be exceeded without significantly altering the thing that is perfect to begin with. Perfection is also timeless, something that doesn't date unless it actually gets better with age. Perfection is hard to come by...but perfection is the seminal 1980's growing-up/time-travel/sci-fi/comedy extravaganza: BACK TO THE FUTURE. Like lightning that is…

While I can totally concede that this film stands completely on the shoulders of the original movie (at times being a near shot-for-shot remake) and its self-indulgent running time of almost 3 hours can give the impression that this is a blockbuster-sized adaptation on steroids, it goes without saying that this is still David Fincher's greatest achievement since his seminal FIGHT CLUB and his most beautiful work since SE7EN. Facts alone, with all remake-politics aside, that make this a worthwhile…