Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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Pride and Glory

Marco Chacon | Oct 31, 2008

The police-drama, as an art-form, usually centers on family and betrayal. The world of a police officer is a pressure cooker of low wages, an absolute code of honor, and danger. The occupa...

Full Review | Grade: B

Max Payne

Marco Chacon | Oct 20, 2008

I fall in the dead-center category of the target market for this film. I was a huge fan of the two video games (Max Payne and Max Payne 2: the Fall of Max Payne). I liked them not only for...

Full Review | Grade: D

Quarantine

Marco Chacon | Oct 15, 2008

The story behind Quarantine is brutally simple: something--some disease--breaks out in a low-rent building in Los Angeles. It just so happens that a film crew shadowing a fire department t...

Full Review | Grade: B

Body of Lies

Marco Chacon | Oct 13, 2008

Body of Lies exists on a spectrum of political thrillers that extends from the complex (sometimes to the point of incomprehensible) Syriana, to the far more conventional 2001, Spy Gam...

Full Review | Grade: C

Eagle Eye

Nathan M Rose | Sep 29, 2008

Technology runs amok in the latest techno action thriller Eagle Eye, starring Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan where two unsuspecting Americans (Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan) are separately drawn in...

Full Review | Grade: C

Sex and The City

Maureen Buccellato | Sep 23, 2008

Ever since the show ended on HBO, I have been waiting to hear if the movie would indeed come to fruition. Some of the actresses were on board and others were not. Four years later, everyone came toget...

Full Review | Grade: A

Chuck: The Complete First Season

Eric English | Sep 15, 2008

"Chuck" is a smart comedy. In essence, a parody of the spy genre, "Chuck" knows not to take itself too seriously while at the same time delivering serious action, drama, intr...

Full Review | Grade: A

Righteous Kill

Nathan M Rose | Sep 14, 2008

Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two names that are synonymous with the silver screen, both starred in the "Godfather II" film, but never had any scenes together. In 1995, both appeared in Heat...

Full Review | Grade: C

Burn After Reading

Marco Chacon | Sep 13, 2008

The Coen brothers have a long history of doing comedic films with dark streaks (The Big Lebowski, Fargo). They have a re...

Full Review | Grade: C

Risky Business

Marco Chacon | Sep 12, 2008

There are a few iconic 80's movies and amongst them, perhaps at the top, is Risky Business. As the movie is a classic, I will presume it is beyond its spoiler date; and if you are getting it on DVD, i...

Full Review | Grade: A