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The Proposal Nathan M Rose |  Oct 14, 2009 The year 2009's summer movie season was full of killer robots from the future, Full Review  | Grade: A

Life on Mars Marco Chacon |  Oct 07, 2009 The show could have been one of my all time favorites, because this was a near-perfect bull's eye for the target market of its kind of strangeness -- I am not kidding! The story is fascinating; a... Full Review  | Grade: C

Gamer Nathan M Rose |  Sep 07, 2009 Gamer is one of those movies that you either love or hate.  Online gaming takes on new meaning in a futuristic world.  In that world, players at home can direct convicts to do their bidding... Full Review  | Grade: B

Sons of Anarchy Season One Marco Chacon |  Sep 01, 2009 In a world where we have an HBO and Showtime series that can give us real street language, actual sex, and off the charts violence, it takes some extra effort to make a crime drama that can actua... Full Review  | Grade: A

Adventureland Eric English |  Aug 25, 2009 Adventureland will appeal mostly to a more mature, yet still slightly adolescent crowd (age 21-34) and would make for a good date movie. Full Review  | Grade: B

Supernatural Season Four Nathan M Rose |  Aug 25, 2009 One glaring omission from this year's Supernatural is the use of classic rock ‘n roll that has become almost a character on the show. Full Review  | Grade: A

Inglourious Basterds Marco Chacon |  Aug 24, 2009 Quentin Tarantino may be the only guy I can think of to have created his own genre.  When you say it is a Quentin Tarantino movie, people pretty much know what you are talking about.  That,... Full Review  | Grade: A

Shorts Roger Longenbach |  Aug 23, 2009 One of my biggest complaints with Hollywood in the last decade has been the lack of new ideas. More and more we're seeing remakes of classic movies -most of the time they're not that great,... Full Review  | Grade: B

District 9 Marco Chacon |  Aug 16, 2009 In 1966, the apartheid government forcibly relocated 60,000 people from District 6 in Cape Town. Today we see a science fiction analogue of that in the 2009 movie District 9 by Neill Blomkamp.... Full Review  | Grade: A

Julie & Julia Roger Longenbach |  Aug 16, 2009 It's not very often that Hollywood can make TWO different books into ONE movie, but perhaps they found the perfect vehicle to try it. Julie & Julia is based on the book which is also its... Full Review  | Grade: B