Jumper
I read the 1992 Steven Gould novel which was fairly streamlined science fiction: take a precept that a young man can teleport and then play the game of figuring out how things might evolve from there....
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Juno
Teen pregnancy in, fiction (as well as real life), has some absolutely defining features. The most prominent is the moral atmosphere around abortion. The second is around the social consequences both...
Untraceable
January is usually the dumping ground for movies that didn't cut it for the holiday season, but starting in 2008 with Cloverfield and now Untraceable this is no longer the case.Untrace...
Cloverfield
Cloverfield. Got your attention already, eh? Ok we have a kick ass trailer, a big mystery about "the monster", months and month of speculation and viral marketing (
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
When most people hear "Sweeny Todd" they know very little: Some know it was a Broadway play/musical, and maybe they remember in the film "Jersey Girl", the little girl performed a...
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
They've made a lot of good decisions with The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Let's hope they're around long enough to see them through.
Charlie Wilson's War
It's fashionable today to talk about how "we" created the Taliban--our own present-day Frankenstein-Monster come back to haunt us. It's less common to hear people discuss the context...
A Christmas Story
The Christmas movie can get away with sappiness in a way that most other family-friendly movies can't. It's okay to have peace-on-earth and goodwill to all men as your message if you also have a Chris...
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
It's hard to judge Alien vs. Predator - Requiem. On one hand the human characters are forgettable, the plot fairly absurd, and the movie, as a horror show simply a kinetic gore-fest. On the other hand...
I Am Legend
After nearly a decade, numerous rewrites, directors, and lead actors later I Am Legend hits the big screen for moviegoers this December, yet it fails to become a legend at all.Based on the book b...