Predators
October 12th, 2009
Is the Schwarzenegger of the zero zeros really, gasp, Adrien Brody? We’ll find out, apparently, in Robert Rodriguez’ retread of Predator.
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
September 8th, 2009
Seeing is believing: Werner Herzog has remade Bad Lieutenant
Hurt Locker Fails to Capture World War II Experience
August 19th, 2009
So-called action movie wastes time tinkering with timebombs while Nazis run amok in the desert
This Borg Needs Blood… and a Brain
August 6th, 2009
In what seems tailored for the lower end of the PG-13 spectrum, Terminator Salvation lacks the guts and smarts of the original
Versus (2000)
March 18th, 2009
Incredible mix of genres define this non-stop Japanese martial arts extravaganza.
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March 18th, 2009
A death row prisoner is cultivated as a storage vessel for a powerful alien witch.
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We Need a Blue Guy to Keep an Eye on the Warheads
March 13th, 2009
The Watchmen reminds us that nuclear weapons and nuclear war are still urgent issues today
Inglourious Basterds
February 20th, 2009
Tarantino’s long-awaited World War II exploitation actioner arrives this Fall.
Watchmen
October 11th, 2008
Say goodbye to phone booths and spider webs; Zack Snyder has promised a grown up comic book movie.
More...Valkyrie
October 3rd, 2008
Bryan Singer faces a formidable technical challenge in telling us a story we already know the ending to, the failed assassination attempt on Hitler by a group of his own military officers. Can this master of detail deliver?
More...Body of Lies
October 3rd, 2008
Ridley Scott’s Middle East thriller pits Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe against terrorists and one another.
More...The Taking of Sallie Mae One Two Three
October 1st, 2008
A highly educated strike force consisting of deadbeats, slackers, and disgruntled smart people infiltrate Sally Mae’s mountain fortress to destroy the original loan paperwork holding millions of former students in modern day wage slavery.
More...Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Hollywood Blockbuster
June 7th, 2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdon of the Crystal Skull is so unbelievably cheesy, wheezy and queasy that, on leaving the cinema, I felt like simultaneously chugging a bottle of Pepto Bismol and four double-espressos just to restore my body’s equilibrium.
More...The Hulk Versus the Military
July 1st, 2003
Do movie-watching crowds in this time of unrelenting jingoism, military opportunism, and peer pressure patriotism really want to see a negative portrait of our men and women in uniform?
More...The Animatrix: Nine New Visions
April 1st, 2003
Nine episode anime expands on the concept of the original Matrix movie. The films are bound by the same vision of a post-apocalypse caused by human actions — a world in which only hackers and misfits living on the fringe can see the truth.
More...Drugged Out Hollywood Gets Rehabilitated in Traffic
April 1st, 2001
Traffic is a remarkable movie about the drug war, fascinating not for its gunfights (appreciably underplayed), but the real world conditions and situations it illuminates
More...Losing Money on Lord of the Rings
January 1st, 2001
I lost money on this film. I bet four dollars against someone’s back issue of Teen Beat that it was going to flop. How did Peter Jackson do it?
More...Canooing the Matrix
June 6th, 1999
Welcome to the Matrix, where computers rule and humans are grown in vats to be used as batteries; take the red pill and let your notions of reality, identity, and what constitutes an action movie slip away.
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