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Angels & Demons
Roger Longenbach | 
Shortly after 2006's The Da Vinci Code became a commercial success, Imagine Entertainment began work on the prequel to that novel, Angels and Demons. Due to the writer's strike...
Full Review  | Grade: D

Star Trek
Marco Chacon | 
Star Trek's promise has always been that it would show us a “for-real Utopian future” where the best voices of mankind have triumphed.  Star Trek’s fans, sometimes reaching reli...
Full Review  | Grade: A


State of Play
Marco Chacon | 
"Message movies" (like Stop Loss or Lions for Lambs) have a particular formula.  They set up the victim for badness, but they must be sufficiently likable and innocent to be outrageous....
Full Review  | Grade: B


Crank 2: High Voltage
Nathan M Rose | 
A budding action star, Jason Statham, stared as Chev Chelios in a low budget film entitled Crank in 2006.   Set in a surreal world that basically was a cinematic version of the Full Review  | Grade: F

Fast & Furious
Marco Chacon | 
The idea to simply give the fourth movie the same name as the first was either brilliant or idiotic, and as it broke all previous records for car/movie openings and April openings --  I am going...
Full Review  | Grade: B

Monsters vs. Aliens
Marco Chacon | 
Animated movies are assembled out of some basic component parts.  There are the adult-demographic jokes -- designed to play to the parents; there are the sidekicks, colorful, usually without any...
Full Review  | Grade: B

Knowing
Marco Chacon | 
The final scene in Knowing was utterly predictable....That is disappointing especially with the strong and legitimately creepy first half, some jaw-dropping F/X scenes.
Full Review  | Grade: C

Race to Witch Mountain
Nathan M Rose | 
For decades, the Disney name has been synonymous with family entertainment.  But in recent years, this usually meant younger female audiences that shied away from the young boy audience. &nb...
Full Review  | Grade: A