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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Movie Review
“The Men Who Stare at Goats”, starring and produced by George Clooney, is an adaption of Jon Ronson’s 2004 nonfiction book about alleged psychic experiments conducted by the U.S. military. Like “The Informant!”, another...
Read More »The Road (2009) Movie Review
“The Road” is an adaptation of the 2006 novel of the same name by author Cormac McCarthy, whose novel “No Country for Old Men” was adapted into last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner. “The...
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PVC-1 (2007) Movie Review
Somewhere deep in rural Colombia, a gang of brutal thugs invades a family’s home, holding a husband and wife and their three small children at gunpoint. The thugs are after a large sum of...
Read More »Boot Camp (2007) Movie Review
In “Boot Camp”, director Christian Duguay has given us a strange mishmash of a film. At first glance, the movie seems to be a well-intentioned exposé of the abuses in juvenile detention camps, so-called...
Read More »S. Darko (2009) Movie Review
“S. Darko“ is the direct-to-DVD cash-in sequel to “Donnie Darko“, writer-director Richard Kelly’s mystifying 2001 tale of teenage angst and existentialism with a time travel twist. When news originally broke that a sequel was...
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Kill Switch (2008) Movie Review
Formerly one of the top action movie stars of the ’90s, Steven Seagal has spent the last several years phoning it in, starring in a stream of direct-to-DVD movies which, with only a few...
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Driven to Kill (2009) Movie Review
“Driven to Kill” is Steven Seagal’s second direct-to-DVD film this year. Yes, his second movie released on DVD in the year 2009, and movie #3 is already in the can. There’s really no way...
Read More »Never Surrender (2009) Movie Review
As the DVD artwork proudly proclaims, “Never Surrender” stars “the world’s top MMA fighters in their first feature film!” In addition to kickboxing champion Hector Echavarria, who not only wrote and directed, but also...
Read More »Observe and Report (2009) Movie Review
In “Observe and Report”, Seth Rogen (“Zack and Miri Make a Porno”, “Pineapple Express”)plays Ronnie Barnhardt, a security guard with delusions of grandeur. In Ronnie’s mind, he is the law, and the only thing...
Read More »Weapons (2007) Movie Review
The first three minutes of “Weapons” are easily the most memorable part of the movie. The opening credits play out over slow-motion footage of a character eating a cheeseburger, and even though the action...
Read More »Howard the Duck (1986) Movie Review
One has to wonder if a movie like Howard the Duck really even requires a review. Maybe it’s enough to ask one simple question: Does the concept of a wisecracking duck (or rather, a...
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