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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Roger Longenbach | May 19, 2008

Much delayed, Prince Caspian has been released almost two and half years after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The original cast of the Pevensie children has retu...

Full Review | Grade: B

Speed Racer

Marco Chacon | May 17, 2008

As Hollywood continues to mine the cartoons of Generation-X's youth I wonder if we'll see a live-action Smurfs movie with CGI-blue actors and Jessica Alba as Smurfette (Javier Bardem would sort of rep...

Full Review | Grade: C

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Marco Chacon | May 08, 2008

All the cool kids are shooting video on their phones and using handcams these days so when Romero goes for a reboot of his moribund Dead franchise he picks up where Full Review | Grade: C

The Forbidden Kingdom

Marco Chacon | Apr 29, 2008

You'd expect the first collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan to be something special: together they're about as close as we come to a cultural icon on the scale of Bruce Lee. Indeed, filmed par...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Ruins

Marco Chacon | Apr 10, 2008

Horror has several elements that make it really sparkle. First, it has to scare you--this should be obvious but there are different kinds of "scared." There's the "Boo" effect when...

Full Review | Grade: C

Horton Hears a Who

Marco Chacon | Mar 24, 2008

The live-action Dr. Seuss movies have not been kind to his legacy. I think that this isn't for lack of trying, I think it's because of the medium as much as anything. Dr. Seuss's locations aren't mean...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Bank Job

Marco Chacon | Mar 21, 2008

A year or so ago I watched a TV show about the daylight Los Angeles bank robbery where two psychopaths, carrying AK-47's with armor-piercing ammo in giant 50-round drums and clothed head-to-toe in cus...

Full Review | Grade: B

Vantage Point

Marco Chacon | Mar 19, 2008

There are tricks you can use in film. You can show us re-winds, fast-forward, jump-cuts, and so on. You can use tricky camera angles to give us odd points of view on a situation. You can use framing t...

Full Review | Grade: D

10,000 B.C.

Marco Chacon | Mar 19, 2008

Roland Emmerich knows how to make a big film, I'll give him that. 10,000 clocks in at almost 1.3 million dollars per minute for its entire 109 minutes (this isn't absurd: Comparatively Pirates of the...

Full Review | Grade: C

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Marco Chacon | Feb 27, 2008

In 1977 I walked out of the Mall 6 theaters (back when 6 theaters was huge) in a daze. I'd just had my 9yr-old brains blown out the back of my head: I didn't want the experience to end. Luke Skywalker...

Full Review | Grade: B