Theatrical, Streaming, Physical Media Reviews

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Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

Marco Chacon | Jun 19, 2007

The first in the series sold out one of the greatest villains in comic history by trying to make Dr. Doom into Lex Luthor. Maybe you can't blame them too harshly: they got the titular four down pretty...

Full Review | Grade: C

Ratatouille

Nathan M Rose | Jun 17, 2007

First off let me preface this review by saying I am not the biggest fan of Pixar. I feel that that previous story lines have been weak. Even though Pixar's movies have always been somewhat entertainin...

Full Review | Grade: A

Ultraviolet

Marco Chacon | Apr 21, 2007

In a future where technology can compress dimensional space, where motorcycles can ride on the walls, where pathogen-created vampires can kill rooms full of people in the blink of an eye, there is sti...

Full Review | Grade: B

Grindhouse

Marco Chacon | Apr 18, 2007

Think one of the more interesting things about Grindhouse is that Quentin knows that the trailers for it have to tell the audience what the hell it means. This is because if you weren't a som...

Full Review | Grade: A

Clerks

Marco Chacon | Apr 12, 2007

I've got to give Kevin Smith credit--he did something that's very hard to make work. Namely, he put himself in a movie without doing the "look-at-me! I'm-the-director!" thing. In...

Full Review | Grade: C

Shaun of The Dead

Marco Chacon | Mar 08, 2007

Shaun, which was released at the same time as the remake of Dawn of the Dead was billed as "A romantic comedy ... with zombies" (proclaiming itself with the cringe inducing...

Full Review | Grade: C

Ghost Rider

Nathan M Rose | Feb 20, 2007

It's the start of a new year, and the start of a new comic book movie season. This year director and screenwriter, Mark Steven Johnson, kicks it off with Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage as the title...

Full Review | Grade: D

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Nathan M Rose | Feb 19, 2007

The special effects still look amazing today despite the fact that the movie is over 50 years old.

Full Review | Grade: B

The Prestige

Marco Chacon | Dec 09, 2006

The name comes from the three parts of a magician's tick: the Pledge (you are shown something ordinary: a coin), the Turn (wherein something extraordinary happens--the coin vanishes), and the Prestige...

Full Review | Grade: B

The Big Lebowski

Eric English | Nov 08, 2006

"Sometimes there's a man, sometimes there's a dude..." So begins 1998's Coen brothers cult classic "The Big Lebowski", and for those of you playing along at home, you've already do...

Full Review | Grade: A