Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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The Sword In The Stone

Maureen Buccellato | Jun 15, 2008

It's been 45 years since the 1963 release of Disney's "The Sword in the Stone". To celebrate this milestone anniversary, Disney has released this timeless classic on DVD. Prepare to be encha...

Full Review | Grade: A

The Incredible Hulk

Nathan M Rose | Jun 15, 2008

Ever since The Crow was released in 1994 and refined the superhero genre, it seems Hollywood cannot get enough of...

Full Review | Grade: B

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Roger Longenbach | May 19, 2008

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...

Full Review | Grade: A

Speed Racer

Marco Chacon | May 17, 2008

As Hollywood continues to mine the cartoons of Generation-X's youth I wonder if we'll see a live-action Smurfs movie with CGI-blue actors and Jessica Alba as Smurfette (Javier Bardem would sort of rep...

Full Review | Grade: C

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Marco Chacon | May 08, 2008

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 Full Review | Grade: C

The Forbidden Kingdom

Marco Chacon | Apr 29, 2008

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...

Full Review | Grade: B

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