The X-Files: I Want to Believe Lacks the Series’ Original...
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The Dark Knight
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?
Wall-E
I have been worried about his film for the last year or so, ever since I watched the teaser trailer where Andrew Stanton recaps the development of the ideas that the creative heads at Pixar tossed aro...
Wanted
Once in a while, there are movies that break the mold of your typical action genre and define the next few years of action films. In the 1980's, it was Die Hard; in the 1990's, it was the Matrix; in t...
The Happening
It's no surprise that M. Night makes challenging movies--exactly who they challenge, though, is a matter of some opinion. The consensus seems to be that they challenge audiences on a mass scale to thi...
The Incredible Hulk
Ever since The Crow was released in 1994 and refined the superhero genre, it seems Hollywood cannot get enough of...
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Much delayed, Prince Caspian has been released almost two and half years after The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The original cast of the Pevensie children has retu...
Speed Racer
Speed Racer isn't just an adaptation. It's a live-action anime executed with fearless conviction.
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
All the cool kids are shooting video on their phones and using handcams these days so when Romero goes for a reboot of his moribund Dead franchise he picks up where
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The Forbidden Kingdom
You'd expect the first collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan to be something special: together they're about as close as we come to a cultural icon on the scale of Bruce Lee. Indeed, filmed par...