Movie / Film Reviews

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Planet 51

Marco Chacon | Nov 30, 2009

Modern animation has benefited from two relatively recent technologies -- cheap computer animation and 3D. While the latter could be considered a gimmick (especially if the glasses give you a hea...

Full Review | Grade: C

Where The Wild Things Are

Marco Chacon | Oct 18, 2009

The 1963 book is 10 sentences long, and it is a classic. The story is about the island where the child, Max, goes after being sent to bed without supper because he was out of control in the hous...

Full Review | Grade: B

Gamer

Nathan M Rose | Sep 07, 2009

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...

Full Review | Grade: B

Inglourious Basterds

Marco Chacon | Aug 24, 2009

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,...

Full Review | Grade: B

Shorts

Roger Longenbach | Aug 23, 2009

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,...

Full Review | Grade: B

District 9

Marco Chacon | Aug 16, 2009

In 1966, the apartheid government forcibly relocated 60,000 people from District 6 in Cape Town. Today we see a science fiction analogue of that in the 2009 movie District 9 by Neill Blomkamp....

Full Review | Grade: B

Julie & Julia

Roger Longenbach | Aug 16, 2009

It's not very often that Hollywood can make TWO different books into ONE movie, but perhaps they found the perfect vehicle to try it. Julie & Julia is based on the book which is also its...

Full Review | Grade: B

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Roger Longenbach | Aug 07, 2009

I had been worried about this film ever since reading in the trades about how early word of mouth was horrible, and that Paramount had put an embargo on pre-release screening by critics. At...

Full Review | Grade: B

G-Force

Roger Longenbach | Jul 25, 2009

Disney has decided that 3-D is the future of motion pictures at your local cinema, and with the exception of the "extra fee for 3-D", they may be right. While the current version of 3-D techno...

Full Review | Grade: B

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Roger Longenbach | Jul 16, 2009

I don't know if it's just my luck, or just the quality of movies this summer, but this movie is another hard one to judge. If you're a fan of the books, or have followed the previous 5 movie...

Full Review | Grade: C