Movie / Film Reviews

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Beowulf

Marco Chacon | Dec 13, 2007

There is more Beowulf than you might think. There are no fewer than four movies in IMDB with exact-matches to Beowulf in their title. That's not including The 13th Warrior that mi...

Full Review | Grade: C

The Golden Compass

Marco Chacon | Dec 04, 2007

Canada is forward thinking: their politics are more progressive, their environmental discipline is more advanced, and their movie sneak previews are a week ahead.In the UK, the book wa...

Full Review | Grade: B

No Country For Old Men

Marco Chacon | Nov 24, 2007

The title comes from WB Yeats Sailing to Byzantium (a poem about growing old). It's a bit of the ultra violence based on...

Full Review | Grade: B

Stardust

Marco Chacon | Nov 14, 2007

Gaiman knows how to work a fantasy world with an internal logic and this carries through into the shorter, tighter movie script.

Full Review | Grade: B

Spider-man 3

Eric English | Nov 04, 2007

A big budget, blockbuster Spiderman film should be executed as flawlessly as a spider winds her web. Each piece carefully planned, executed perfectly, and ultimatly neccesary to the beauty...

Full Review | Grade: C

Shooter

Marco Chacon | Nov 01, 2007

The list of "sniper" movies runs the gamut from the obligatory 1993 Sniper where the euphonious character is a Zen Buddhist principled sold...

Full Review | Grade: B

We Own The Night

Marco Chacon | Oct 31, 2007

There was precious little owning of the night, to be honest. In fact, a large part of the movie was not shot at night. If anything got owned for sure it was my $8.50.We Own The Night s...

Full Review | Grade: C

Resident Evil: Extinction

Nathan M Rose | Sep 24, 2007

It is the month of September, and like clockwork another Resident Evil movie has been unleashed in the theater. This go round Alice and the gang this head out of their familiar territory of Raccoon Ci...

Full Review | Grade: B

Transformers

Marco Chacon | Jul 09, 2007

I missed the 1984 TV show by about 5 years: being in high school placed me outside the zone where I'd watch it. I was aware of it though: a Saturday-morning cartoon featuring overly literal n...

Full Review | Grade: B

1408

Marco Chacon | Jul 09, 2007

I was introduced to 1408 in the audio-book collection Blood and Smoke, three stories by Stephen King that vaguely, barely, relate to death and smoking ... as in ... they have a cigar...

Full Review | Grade: B