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(Marco Chacon) 11/28/2008 10:22 AM EDT EON Productions is methodically remaking the Bond franchise. Starting with Casino Royale, they moved it more along the Bourne axis into gritty action and away from the suave super-spy that Roger Moore personified -- to the point where Moore, at 80, felt the new Bond franchise was over-violent ... and under-sexed. Like a living org... Read More |
 
(Roger Longenbach) 11/26/2008 11:47 AM EDT The void left by the postponement of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince allowed for Twilight to move up their release date by two weeks. It was more than just a timing difference or to move away from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Rather, I think it was a symbolic move, to show that Twilight was filling in for the serial movie genre... Read More |
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(Marco Chacon) 11/23/2008 9:24 PM EDT In judging a movie, you have to make allownaces for the type of movie it is. If it is derived from a much beloved book, that is one thing. If it's a high school flick, that is another. A vampire movie -- still more baggage! Twilight, coming from a populr book series by Stephanie Meyer, is all of these. Trying to judge ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 11/05/2008 10:54 AM EDT Kevin Smith, one the most creative comedic directors of modern cinema, is at it again with his latest film, "Zack and Miri Make A Porno" -- the story of two friends (Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks) who get into the amateur porn business to combat their rising debt, only to realize their underlying feelings for each other while doing so.Wh... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 10/31/2008 3:49 PM EDT The police-drama, as an art-form, usually centers on family and betrayal. The world of a police officer is a pressure cooker of low wages, an absolute code of honor, and danger. The occupation also tends to follow heredity -- at least in the movies -- and we've seen any number of these where a younger officer's stoic father is a retired... Read More |
 
(Marco Chacon) 10/20/2008 2:20 PM EDT I fall in the dead-center category of the target market for this film. I was a huge fan of the two video games (Max Payne and Max Payne 2: the Fall of Max Payne). I liked them not only for the action, but for the story and character as well. On the other hand, I knew from the start that it was unlikely that the director, much less... Read More |
(Marco Chacon) 10/15/2008 2:07 PM EDT The story behind Quarantine is brutally simple: something--some disease--breaks out in a low-rent building in Los Angeles. It just so happens that a film crew shadowing a fire department team is trapped inside when the government quarantines the building. For the people inside, it is a zombie-style nightmare as the disease leads to viole... Read More |
 
(Marco Chacon) 10/13/2008 11:24 AM EDT Body of Lies exists on a spectrum of political thrillers that extends from the complex (sometimes to the point of incomprehensible) Syriana, to the far more conventional 2001, Spy Game. In fact, it owes a lot to the latter: there's a young CIA operative, Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his older, far more experienced and cynical cont... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/29/2008 10:08 AM EDT Technology runs amok in the latest techno action thriller Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan where two unsuspecting Americans (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan) are separately drawn into a conspiracy by a mysterious woman they have never met, but who seems to know their every move. By the time they discover her frightening identity,... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 09/14/2008 12:14 AM EDT Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two names that are synonymous with the silver screen, both starred in the "Godfather II" film, but never had any scenes together. In 1995, both appeared in Heat by Michael Mann and ever since then, moviegoers have been clamoring to see these superstars do a film together again. This September, they had their ... Read More |