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Review: DOOMSDAY

March 16, 2008 Rich Drees

With Dog Soldiers (2002) and Descent (2005), director Neil Marshall proved himself a skilled cinematic chef, able to take the standard ingredients of a genre film and with the application of spice and style serve [click for more]

Review: THE BANK JOB

March 8, 2008 Rich Drees

For years, heist and caper films have been trying to out do each other, continually raising the bar on what seemingly impossible methods a gang of crooks would go through to obtain their objectives and [click for more]

Review: PARANOID PARK

March 8, 2008 Rich Drees

We originally reviewed Gus Van Sant’s PARANOID PARK last fall when it screened at the New York Film Festival. As the film opens in limited release this weekend, we present our review again. In many [click for more]

Review: 10,000 BC

March 7, 2008 Rich Drees

Forget everything you know about science and history. The makers of 10,000 B.C. obviously have. A prehistoric Last Of The Mohicans, right down to aping some of the iconic visuals from the 1996 film, 10,000 [click for more]

Review: TEETH

January 18, 2008 Rich Drees

Dawn (Jess Wiexler) is a pretty high school girl, though not very popular with most of her classmates due to her leadership role in the local teen celibacy group. So committed to the cause, Dawn [click for more]

We’ve Seen CLOVERFIELD!

January 16, 2008 Rich Drees

Cloverfield is not so much a monster film, but a film about survival. Sure there’s a monster whose attack on Manhattan makes the American Godzilla’s rampage back in 1998 look like high tea with the [click for more]

Review: ALIEN VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM

December 26, 2007 Rich Drees

Did you ever wish for that one, really cool holiday present? The one when you saw it in the store looked so amazing, the box on the counter seeming to promise so much. And then, [click for more]

Review: I AM LEGEND

December 14, 2007 Rich Drees

In 2009, a cure for cancer is found by genetically manipulating a measles virus. However, the virus continues to mutate, creating a pandemic which kills nearly 90 percent of the Earth’s human population and turning [click for more]

Review: JUNO

December 7, 2007 Rich Drees

Some comedies are like martinis in that they are an acquired taste. It may take one a few minutes to warm up to humor being presented. Juno is one such film. It has a distinct [click for more]

Review: THE MIST

November 22, 2007 Rich Drees

After a particularly powerful storm, the residents of a small town in Maine find that a strange fog-like mist is rolling down off the nearby mountains, covering their town. But this mist hides something, vaguely [click for more]