Movie / Film Reviews

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Death Race

Nathan M Rose | Aug 24, 2008

It's the end of summer, families are taking their last vacations, kids are getting ready for school, and the studios start to release the films that didn't make it into their summer schedule, such as...

Full Review | Grade: B

Tropic Thunder

Marco Chacon | Aug 18, 2008

Apocalypse Now was so hard to make they made a movie about making it. They couldn't even figure out how to end it. Brando was so heavy he was problematic (and hard to understand). When it tur...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Marco Chacon | Aug 04, 2008

What's the opposite of 'Synergy' where things are more than the sum of their parts? The answer is "antagonism" where additive elements actually detract from the whole. This is the force at w...

Full Review | Grade: D

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Nathan M Rose | Aug 02, 2008

It has been seven years since the O'Connell's were on the silver screen, and they are back this summer in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. However, unlike past mummy films, this is one tha...

Full Review | Grade: F

X-Files: I Want to Believe

Nathan M Rose | Jul 26, 2008

It has been six years since X-files has been off the air, but this summer, the series creator, Chris Carter, along with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, bring back the critically acclaimed series...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Dark Knight

Eric English | Jul 19, 2008

What the #!@#@$, Chris Nolan. You introduce a main villain from the Batman mythos 3/4ths of the way through your movie, give him 3 or 4 "choices" to make (something tells me he's made up his mind already) then kill him off? Really?

Full Review | Grade: B

Wall-E

Roger Longenbach | Jun 30, 2008

I have been worried about his film for the last year or so, ever since I watched the teaser trailer where Andrew Stanton recaps the development of the ideas that the creative heads at Pixar tossed aro...

Full Review | Grade: B

Wanted

Nathan M Rose | Jun 29, 2008

Once in a while, there are movies that break the mold of your typical action genre and define the next few years of action films. In the 1980's, it was Die Hard; in the 1990's, it was the Matrix; in t...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Happening

Marco Chacon | Jun 21, 2008

It's no surprise that M. Night makes challenging movies--exactly who they challenge, though, is a matter of some opinion. The consensus seems to be that they challenge audiences on a mass scale to thi...

Full Review | Grade: C