Movie / Film Reviews

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Horton Hears a Who
Marco Chacon | 
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 | 
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 | 
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 | 
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
Rambo
Marco Chacon | 
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 | 
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 | 
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: A
Untraceable
Nathan M Rose | 
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 | 
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

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