Movie / Film Reviews

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Ultraviolet

Marco Chacon | Apr 21, 2007

In a future where technology can compress dimensional space, where motorcycles can ride on the walls, where pathogen-created vampires can kill rooms full of people in the blink of an eye, there is sti...

Full Review | Grade: B

Grindhouse

Marco Chacon | Apr 18, 2007

Think one of the more interesting things about Grindhouse is that Quentin knows that the trailers for it have to tell the audience what the hell it means. This is because if you weren't a som...

Full Review | Grade: B

Clerks

Marco Chacon | Apr 12, 2007

I've got to give Kevin Smith credit--he did something that's very hard to make work. Namely, he put himself in a movie without doing the "look-at-me! I'm-the-director!" thing. In...

Full Review | Grade: C

Shaun of The Dead

Marco Chacon | Mar 08, 2007

Shaun, which was released at the same time as the remake of Dawn of the Dead was billed as "A romantic comedy ... with zombies" (proclaiming itself with the cringe inducing...

Full Review | Grade: C

Ghost Rider

Nathan M Rose | Feb 20, 2007

It's the start of a new year, and the start of a new comic book movie season. This year director and screenwriter, Mark Steven Johnson, kicks it off with Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage as the title...

Full Review | Grade: D

The Prestige

Marco Chacon | Dec 09, 2006

The name comes from the three parts of a magician's tick: the Pledge (you are shown something ordinary: a coin), the Turn (wherein something extraordinary happens--the coin vanishes), and the Prestige...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Big Lebowski

Eric English | Nov 08, 2006

"Sometimes there's a man, sometimes there's a dude..." So begins 1998's Coen brothers cult classic "The Big Lebowski", and for those of you playing along at home, you've already do...

Full Review | Grade: B

Gothika

Eric English | Oct 05, 2006

After winning the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Monster's Ball, Halle Berry's took a very dark and disappointing turn. Perhaps the single most critically panned film in the years the f...

Full Review | Grade: C

X-Men: The Last Stand

Eric English | Sep 21, 2006

Warning: This Review Contains Spoilers.Of all the powers of all the mutants in the X-men series, perhaps the most powerful of all would be the ability to make Kelsey Grammer look cool as...

Full Review | Grade: C