Star Trek
Star Trek's promise has always been that it would show us a “for-real Utopian future” where the best voices of mankind have triumphed. Star Trek’s fans, sometimes reaching reli...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Wolverine takes the most popular character from the three successful X-Men movies, and explores his origins befo...
State of Play
"Message movies" (like Stop Loss or Lions for Lambs) have a particular formula. They set up the victim for badness, but they must be sufficiently likable and innocent to be outrageous....
Fighting
I am on the lookout for the Rocky of Mixed-Martial Arts fighting. The "boxing story" is already i...
Sin City
Frank Miller's "film noir" graphic novel series, riffs off the 'black, white, and [read] all over' joke. In this case, it is a gritty crime drama that is done in black and white and ha...
Crank 2: High Voltage
A budding action star, Jason Statham, stared as Chev Chelios in a low budget film entitled Crank in 2006. Set in a surreal world that basically was a cinematic version of the
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The Matrix
Every couple of years a movie comes along that defines a generation of films. In 1999, that film was, The Matrix. Now, ten years later, the film that defined a generation makes its way to...
Fast & Furious
The idea to simply give the fourth movie the same name as the first was either brilliant or idiotic, and as it broke all previous records for car/movie openings and April openings -- I am going...
Monsters vs. Aliens
Animated movies are assembled out of some basic component parts. There are the adult-demographic jokes -- designed to play to the parents; there are the sidekicks, colorful, usually without any...
Knowing
The final scene in Knowing was utterly predictable....That is disappointing especially with the strong and legitimately creepy first half, some jaw-dropping F/X scenes.