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(Marco Duran) 09/14/2009 8:00 PM EDT One of the biggest problems facing moviemakers, or really, any working artist seeing a project through, is being too close to your project. Often times it takes an objective eye and a kind word to show you that you've gone off the rails and need to correct your trajectory. Once you're in production, things really start humming and you're ... Read More |
 
(Marco Duran) 09/14/2009 7:58 PM EDT I am a huge fan of Office Space, the 1999 film about how it sucks to work for "The Man." Now, 10 years later Mike Judge is back with another film about how it sucks to be "The Man." Mike Judge, known also for bringing us Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Idiocracy and a whole slew of other morons for us to laugh at, does no... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 09/14/2009 1:53 PM EDT Some day we are going to run out of number-names for movies. We have recently seen 300. I remember Ten. If you accept articles, the "The One" probably counts. If we let in dates, then Ridley Scott's 1492 might count (although they added 'Conquest of Paradise'). We all saw Seven. There was a movie named Thirteen.&n... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/07/2009 8:17 PM EDT Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate. Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world. In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding in a wickedly violent, multiplayer competition, and death-row inmate Kable (Gerard Butler) has no choice but to play. As millions satisfy their ... Read More |
 
(Nathan M Rose) 09/04/2009 10:53 AM EDT The man of Steel has been part of our worldwide culture since the 20th century. During that time, we have seen Superman in print, film, and on television. It's latest television incarnation is a series entitled, Smallville, which shows Superman's humble beginning as the small town boy, Clark Kent. It has become a... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 09/01/2009 3:47 PM EDT In a world where we have an HBO and Showtime series that can give us real street language, actual sex, and off the charts violence, it takes some extra effort to make a crime drama that can actually get to us. After seeing the trailers for Sons of Anarchy with the muscled back of Charlie Hunnam ('Jax' in the series) bearing the tattoo of the ... Read More |
(Eric English) 08/25/2009 8:35 PM EDT Billed as a comedy "From the director of SUPERBAD", "Adventureland" doesn't take the gross out route with its subtle humor and is really more of a coming of age drama. If you are expecting "Van Wilder" (the movie features eternal frat boy Ryan Reynolds) or something along the lines of Judd Apatow fallace joke... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 08/25/2009 2:52 PM EDT Heading into Supernatural Season Four, the show was plagued with possible cancellation and a lower budget than its first three years. However, the show continued to shine.Resurrection: After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an all-powerful creature he has never seen before - an Angel - a warrior of God, w... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 08/24/2009 8:09 PM EDT Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre. When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about. That, by itself, is a hell of an achievement. Of course, his achievements in film, the influential Reservoir Dogs, the even more influential, Pulp Fic... Read More |
(Roger Longenbach) 08/23/2009 11:25 AM EDT One of my biggest complaints with Hollywood in the last decade has been the lack of new ideas. More and more we're seeing remakes of classic movies -most of the time they're not that great, but in some cases they are. Because of this, it seems some of my most favorite movies have been the "independent" films. Shorts is one ... Read More |