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The Transporter 3

By Ben • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
The Transporter 3

To tell you the truth, I was quite looking forward to reviewing the action-packed, techno blasting Transporter 3, and if you’ve been paying attention, the last handful of reviews consisted of inhumane bashing of films (or as I should be calling it, “constructive criticism”). I needed to enjoy myself for once, even if only 100 [...]



Yawn… James Yawn…

By Ben • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Movies
Yawn... James Yawn...

Let me get this straight, I loved Casino Royale. Daniel Craig and director Martin Campbell showed us a fantastic Bond, combining pure badass-ery with emotional realism, similar to what Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan did to Batman. However, the second time around, Batman was still fresh, while Bond’s appeal died just like every girlfriend he’s [...]



Quarantine

By Ben • Oct 23rd, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
Quarantine

With Halloween just around the corner, and teenagers looking to get scared, it’s easy to believe that Quarantine is going to be a money-making machine. It will sail to the top of the box office opening weekend, but will die out when the next Saw thing comes out in a couple of weeks. It will [...]



Burn After Reading

By Ben • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
Burn After Reading

Finding a good movie nowadays is like finding a needle in a haystack, located within a colossal field of haystacks. The Coens are among the most successful writer/directors out there, inhaling praise around every corner and collecting every Oscar they can along the way. Last year’s No Country, despite all of the critical acclaim and [...]



Pineapple Express

By Ben • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Movies
Pineapple Express

At the time I started writing this review, it was Aug. 7, and I was halfway done. However, I went on vacation, leaving the review unfinished. I came back weeks after the movie had opened, and rather than going back and rewriting it to suit the present time frame, I decided to leave the review [...]



Shutter (Thai and American)

By Ben • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
Shutter (Thai and American)

I think that a new rule has to be passed. Some kind of rule that restricts America from leeching on to overseas cinema in order to juice tons dollars from teenagers that need only see a misty setting or a dead person to get scared, because if the makers of Meet the Spartans and Epic [...]



The Happening

By Ben • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
The Happening

Oh boy, I hate this movie.
M. Night Shyamalan has brought us a movie that fails almost every step of the way, but for a strange reason, still has my respect. I feel some sort of sympathy for him, because he kicks off his film making career well with The Sixth Sense, but has been going [...]



Rambo on DVD (2008)

By Ben • Jun 7th, 2008 • Category: Movies
Rambo on DVD (2008)

The highly anticipated fourth Rambo movie came out on DVD last Tuesday, May 27th. I was fortunate enough to catch this one in the theaters when it first came out in January, even if it was the first Rambo I had seen. It was enough of a thrill ride for me to blind buy the [...]



The Orphanage

By Ben • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Movies
The Orphanage

Stop me if you’ve heard this one – a hideously deformed outcast child in a setting with other children falls victim to a cruel prank gone wrong, causing his untimely and unintentional demise! Also, just as if it can’t get any worse, his spirit starts to haunt the orphanage he lived in along with the [...]



New DVD Release: P2

By Ben • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Media, Movies
New DVD Release: P2

Why is it that in every horror movie, cell phones don’t work? They’re trash: no matter where you are, they won’t get a signal! In this case, our main victim here is Angela, an overworked businesswoman that begins her night of stress when her car won’t start. She calls a cab, but she’s locked out [...]