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Movie / Film Reviews by Marco Chacon

Browse reviews written by Marco Chacon, including critical takes on films, home entertainment releases, and television series.

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Exposed to radioactive films early on, Marco Chacon has gained proportional strength and agility, though it hasn't been useful. On the internet, opinions hold sway over facts, and Marco is no exception, often possessing multiple, conflicting views. Marco is also the author of the JAGS Roleplaying Gaming System.

Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer

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

Ultraviolet

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

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

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

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

The Prestige

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 Illusionist

Aug 20, 2006

The 2006 movie came out around the same time as The Prestige and involved another stage magician in a period-piece romance. This time we're in Vienna at the turn of the century where Ed Norton...

Full Review | Grade: B