Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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The Ruins

Marco Chacon | Apr 10, 2008

Horror has several elements that make it really sparkle. First, it has to scare you--this should be obvious but there are different kinds of "scared." There's the "Boo" effect when...

Full Review | Grade: C

Horton Hears a Who

Marco Chacon | Mar 24, 2008

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 | Mar 21, 2008

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 | Mar 19, 2008

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 | Mar 19, 2008

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

Nancy Drew

Nathan M Rose | Mar 03, 2008

Nancy Drew, the heroine detective of the widely popular mystery series, was reincarnated again during the summer of 2007, and now on DVD this March, with a little help from Warner Bros and director An...

Full Review | Grade: A

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Marco Chacon | Feb 27, 2008

In 1977 I walked out of the Mall 6 theaters (back when 6 theaters was huge) in a daze. I'd just had my 9yr-old brains blown out the back of my head: I didn't want the experience to end. Luke Skywalker...

Full Review | Grade: A

Rambo

Marco Chacon | Feb 19, 2008

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 | Feb 16, 2008

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 | Feb 14, 2008

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