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The Big Bang Theory Physical Media: DVD Review

The Big Bang Theory: The Complete First Season

Sep 05, 2008

The Big Bang Theory comes back for a second season this year and if you want to catch up on it, you can get the first on DVD. The key questions you should be asking yourself, if you have not...

Full Review | Grade: C

Babylon A.D.

Sep 01, 2008

I like Vin Diesel--he's got screen presence. He's got charisma. I liked him in Pitch Black and I enjoyed t...

Full Review | Grade: C

Tropic Thunder

Aug 18, 2008

Apocalypse Now was so hard to make they made a movie about making it. They couldn't even figure out how to end it. Brando was so heavy he was problematic (and hard to understand). When it tur...

Full Review | Grade: C

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Physical Media: DVD Review

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles The Complete First...

Aug 16, 2008

In short, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is something that you've got to check out if you're a Terminator fan. If you're not, it's still a pretty good science fiction drama.

Full Review | Grade: B

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Aug 04, 2008

What's the opposite of 'Synergy' where things are more than the sum of their parts? The answer is "antagonism" where additive elements actually detract from the whole. This is the force at w...

Full Review | Grade: D

The Happening

Jun 21, 2008

It's no surprise that M. Night makes challenging movies--exactly who they challenge, though, is a matter of some opinion. The consensus seems to be that they challenge audiences on a mass scale to thi...

Full Review | Grade: C

Speed Racer

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

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

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

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