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Life on Mars
Marco Chacon | 
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 | 
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 | 
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 | 
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


Inglourious Basterds
Marco Chacon | 
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 | 
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 | 
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 | 
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