Movie / Film Reviews

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Eagle Eye

Nathan M Rose | Sep 29, 2008

Technology runs amok in the latest techno action thriller Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan where two unsuspecting Americans (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan) are separately drawn in...

Full Review | Grade: C

Righteous Kill

Nathan M Rose | Sep 14, 2008

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two names that are synonymous with the silver screen, both starred in the "Godfather II" film, but never had any scenes together. In 1995, both appeared in Heat...

Full Review | Grade: C

Burn After Reading

Marco Chacon | Sep 13, 2008

The Coen brothers have a long history of doing comedic films with dark streaks (The Big Lebowski, Fargo). They have a re...

Full Review | Grade: C

Babylon A.D.

Marco Chacon | Sep 01, 2008

I like Vin Diesel--he's got screen presence. He's got charisma. I liked him in Pitch Black and I enjoyed t...

Full Review | Grade: C

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