Movie / Film Reviews

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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

Rambo

Marco Chacon | Feb 19, 2008

The goal of every action movie since 1985 has been to even try to approximate the "scene" in That Movie Where Chuck Norris Comes Out Of The Water. If you grew up in the 80's, you know which...

Full Review | Grade: B

Jumper

Marco Chacon | Feb 16, 2008

I read the 1992 Steven Gould novel which was fairly streamlined science fiction: take a precept that a young man can teleport and then play the game of figuring out how things might evolve from there....

Full Review | Grade: B

Juno

Marco Chacon | Feb 14, 2008

Teen pregnancy in, fiction (as well as real life), has some absolutely defining features. The most prominent is the moral atmosphere around abortion. The second is around the social consequences both...

Full Review | Grade: B

Untraceable

Nathan M Rose | Jan 23, 2008

January is usually the dumping ground for movies that didn't cut it for the holiday season, but starting in 2008 with Cloverfield and now Untraceable this is no longer the case.Untrace...

Full Review | Grade: B

Cloverfield

Eric English | Jan 20, 2008

Cloverfield. Got your attention already, eh? Ok we have a kick ass trailer, a big mystery about "the monster", months and month of speculation and viral marketing ( Full Review | Grade: D

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Maureen Buccellato | Jan 17, 2008

When most people hear "Sweeny Todd" they know very little: Some know it was a Broadway play/musical, and maybe they remember in the film "Jersey Girl", the little girl performed a...

Full Review | Grade: B

Charlie Wilson's War

Marco Chacon | Jan 15, 2008

It's fashionable today to talk about how "we" created the Taliban--our own present-day Frankenstein-Monster come back to haunt us. It's less common to hear people discuss the context...

Full Review | Grade: B

A Christmas Story

Marco Chacon | Dec 27, 2007

The Christmas movie can get away with sappiness in a way that most other family-friendly movies can't. It's okay to have peace-on-earth and goodwill to all men as your message if you also have a Chris...

Full Review | Grade: B

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

Marco Chacon | Dec 27, 2007

It's hard to judge Alien vs. Predator - Requiem. On one hand the human characters are forgettable, the plot fairly absurd, and the movie, as a horror show simply a kinetic gore-fest. On the other hand...

Full Review | Grade: C