Reviews

Nixon

August 13, 2008 // 0 Comments

Oliver Stone has a hand for making political history popular despite the fact that his films are typically shrouded in controversy and questioned on their accuracy. Regardless of what really happened, "JFK," for example, is certainly the most [...]

Brutal Massacre

August 12, 2008 // 0 Comments

The hot topic about "Brutal Massacre" is the fact that almost everyone confronting it is going to be uttering "Spinal Tap" within the same sentence as this nutty horror roast. That being said, is "Brutal Massacre" really the [...]

Heathers: 20th High School Reunion Edition

August 11, 2008 // 0 Comments

In the 1980s, the teen movie market was dominated in one corner by the libidinous sexcapades of the "Porky's" franchise and its various knockoffs and in the other by the uplifting but socially idealistic fairy tales of John Hughes. Arriving [...]

Step Up 2 The Streets

August 7, 2008 // 0 Comments

"Step Up 2 The Streets" is the new urban dance drama brought to us by director Jon Chu. Audiences don't go into a film like his with ideas of following some well arranged plot, or to get deeply involved in the characters, they come to see [...]

The Bank Job: 2-Disc Special Edition

August 6, 2008 // 0 Comments

"The Bank Job" is a true heist film in the finest tradition. Based on a 1971 incident in London, the movie follows an elaborate bank robbery that was highly publicized only to be quickly stifled in the press for reasons that were never truly [...]

College Road Trip

August 5, 2008 // 0 Comments

Martin Lawrence seemed to have it all going for him at one time, his hit show "Martin" ran on Fox for a highly successful five year run from 1992 through 1997, and in the show he introduced a wide variety of characters and displayed an edgy [...]

Vexille

August 4, 2008 // 0 Comments

Anime has long been a morality play watchdog, explicitly casting the limelight upon a rapidly-accelerating tech world, ironic when you consider Japan has always been at the industrial forefront, not just internally but on an international level. [...]

The Ruins: Unrated

August 1, 2008 // 0 Comments

In the 1970s, Carter Smith's "The Ruins" might have been a clever exploitation film on the drive-in circuit, made on the cheap with minimal visual effects and a cast of unknowns. In 2008, it is soft-core torture porn that quite literally [...]

Shutter

July 31, 2008 // 0 Comments

After so many recent disastrous remakes of foreign horror movies you would think that the executives who green light certain projects would get a clue, but instead they just keep cranking out these dreadful products, usually with mixed results, and this [...]

Heavy Metal In Baghdad

July 12, 2008 // 0 Comments

A large facet to the heavy metal ethos is that being a fan comes with a price, largely in the form of ostracizing from a central peer group. Certainly this genus of music carries with it a stand up for yourself liability that offers no compensatory [...]
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