Movie / Film Reviews

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The Social Network

Stephen Compall | Oct 01, 2010

What most surprised me regarding The Social Network was the degree to which I sympathized with its subject, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland, Solitar...

Full Review | Grade: B

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Chris Rebholz | Sep 28, 2010

Back in the 1980's Oliver Stone made a movie called Wall Street which was a social commentary of the way American business operated during that generation. The character of Richard Gekko (Michael Doug...

Full Review | Grade: B

You Again

Marco Chacon | Sep 24, 2010

It's good to see Kristen Bell getting work. I've liked her ever since Veronica Mars and her natural charisma lights up the screen when she's on it. When you throw in Sigourney Weaver and J...

Full Review | Grade: C

Devil

Chris Rebholz | Sep 21, 2010

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 th...

Full Review | Grade: C

Easy A

Nathan M Rose | Sep 16, 2010

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, sta...

Full Review | Grade: B

The American

Chris Rebholz | Sep 15, 2010

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 tra...

Full Review | Grade: D

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Chris Rebholz | Sep 12, 2010

There have been a lot of movies based off of video games. It is as common today as the comic book movie. Quite frankly though, most of these movies have never been very good. They almost always come o...

Full Review | Grade: D

Machete

Roger Longenbach | Sep 03, 2010

Three years ago, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino released Grindhouse, an homage to the B slasher/zombie movies from the 1970s. Part of that homage was including trailers for "fake" mo...

Full Review | Grade: B

Going The Distance

Nathan M Rose | Sep 02, 2010

If past history is anything that indicates the dog days of summer, it is when the films that did not make the summer blockbuster cut are dumped into theaters.Most of these movies...

Full Review | Grade: B

Takers

Stephen Compall | Aug 26, 2010

There is no justice in the world, but there can be justice in film, so Takers in its later acts becomes bent on digging up the flaws in its characters, so carefully papered over in the run-up to the heist, and punishing them for it.

Full Review | Grade: C