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(Chris Rebholz) 09/21/2010 10:29 PM EDT A few years ago we saw the first of many M. Night Shyamalan movies, The Sixth Sense. That movie came out of left field and astounded audiences with the deep well of emotion from all the characters and also the final surprise ending. As time passed more movies from him cropped up and it seems as though he has become a one trick pony. His most recent... Read More |
 
(Stephen Compall) 09/20/2010 7:06 PM EDT There's nothing quite so compelling of excellence from humanity than impending doom. From followers of Rapture theology, it breeds a love/hate relationship with apocalypse. To corporate takeover specialists, it provides an effective tool to keep newly-acquired managers delivering profits for the new big brother. What else can ... Read More |
 
(Marco Chacon) 09/20/2010 1:23 PM EDT With Season 2 of the Sons of Anarchy we are back in the small (fictional) town of Charming where we see the Sons of Anarchy Season 2 gang as both the problem and the solution to violent crime. This muscular, motor-cycle drama keeps its Shakespearian tragedy overtones as the group hurls towards bloody, self-destruction for another knuckle-biti... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 09/20/2010 11:26 AM EDT Big Bang Theory could easily be a simple uninteresting show about four very smart but "nerdy" guys who lives in the same apartment building as a very attractive waitress. Initially that was what the show was about; the main character of Leonard (Johnny Galecki) had a large crush on the new girl next door, Penny (Kaley Cuoco). Most of the ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/16/2010 10:51 PM EDT In the spirit of such films as Sixteen Candles, Can't Buy Me Love, 10 Things I Hate About You, and 13 Going on 30, Screen Gems releases Easy A, starring Emma Stone on audiences this week. Easy A premise is simple enough -- a modern-day telling of the Scarlet Letter. Olive (Emma Stone, SuperBad, Zombieland) is a simple high school stude... Read More |
 
(Chris Rebholz) 09/15/2010 10:27 AM EDT It's fairly typical of Hollywood that once a certain genre of movie catches on we will begin to see similar types being pumped out over the next few years. At the moment we have the "assassin trained in every way possible" character. One of the first movies to really deliver in this area was The Bourne Identity in which a would-be killer ... Read More |
(Eric English) 09/15/2010 10:02 AM EDT Based on the long running newspaper comic strip of the same name "Marmaduke" came to the big screen as a live action/computer animated film in the summer of 2010. Surrounding the story of a Great Dane named Marmaduke and the antics of dealing with his size and less than average intelligence, the one panel strip has been running since the ... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 09/14/2010 8:59 PM EDT Once again we have another movie based off a video game. This time around it is Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The difference with this movie and most others that are based off of video games is that this time around Disney is producing it so we can expect a nice big budget.The movie opens with our young hero who is living on the streets and ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/12/2010 1:29 PM EDT After the success of Twilight, studios and television networks started searching for the next Vampire series that they could profit on. One of them to stand out from the crowd was The Vampire Diaries, by L.J. Smith. This series could have been glossed over by any writer, stayed on the air as fodder, and then been done with. Howeve... Read More |
(Chris Rebholz) 09/12/2010 1:12 PM EDT Supernatural is a show that has grown into its own little juggernaut of popularity and mythology. Fans of it are devout to say the least. Conventions devoted solely to the show have started cropping up, books based on the show and even fan fiction appear on the Internet. Perhaps it is because of the rapid loyalty of comic book fans, or perhaps it's... Read More |