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Thu, 8 May 2008 11:40 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=82 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=81 The Marvel Iron Man started in Vietnam where he was forced to construct his first version of the armor with the help of a Chinese genius. Later it was the Gulf War--and now Afghanistan. In the story Tony Stark, genius weapons-designer is captured and... Sat, 3 May 2008 11:03 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=81 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=80 You'd expect the first collaboration between Jet Li and Jackie Chan to be something special: together they're about as close as we come to a cultural icon on the scale of Bruce Lee. Indeed, filmed partially on location (the Gobi desert, not the templ... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:43 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=80 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=79 It had been four years since filmgoers have seen Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) grace the silver screen, but the crazy kids are at it again in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Their last adventure found them traveling ... Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:25 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=79 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=78 Japan has had a lot of imports over the years and the latest is in remakes of their often-startling horror movies. Japanese horror is visceral and disturbing to most westerners with its bleak sensibilities, spooky little girls, and often complete lac... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:32 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=78 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=77 Horror has several elements that make it really sparkle. First, it has to scare you--this should be obvious but there are different kinds of "scared." There's the "Boo" effect when something jumps out at you--cheap slasher flicks ... Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:06 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=77 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=76 The live-action Dr. Seuss movies have not been kind to his legacy. I think that this isn't for lack of trying, I think it's because of the medium as much as anything. Dr. Seuss's locations aren't meant to be real: they exist in the imaginary landscap... Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:12 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=76 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=75 A year or so ago I watched a TV show about the daylight Los Angeles bank robbery where two psychopaths, carrying AK-47's with armor-piercing ammo in giant 50-round drums and clothed head-to-toe in custom body armor took on a bank and the entire LA po... Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:13 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=75 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=74 There are tricks you can use in film. You can show us re-winds, fast-forward, jump-cuts, and so on. You can use tricky camera angles to give us odd points of view on a situation. You can use framing to show us or not show us things the characters the... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:40 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=74 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=73 Roland Emmerich knows how to make a big film, I'll give him that. 10,000 clocks in at almost 1.3 million dollars per minute for its entire 109 minutes (this isn't absurd: Comparatively Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was 1.7). He gets his money's worth. O... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:54 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=73 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=72 I could make some sort of quip like "Mad Maxine" (I fear to search Google and discover someone has done it un-ironically) but the grindhouse-ethic that Doomsday evokes all but asks for it. The movie confirms what 28 Days Later first pointed... Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:39 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=72 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=71 Nancy Drew, the heroine detective of the widely popular mystery series, was reincarnated again during the summer of 2007, and now on DVD this March , with a little help from Warner Bros and director Andrew Flemming (The Craft).This time around, Nancy... Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:52 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=71 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=70 In 1977 I walked out of the Mall 6 theaters (back when 6 theaters was huge) in a daze. I'd just had my 9yr-old brains blown out the back of my head: I didn't want the experience to end. Luke Skywalker was the ultimate hero, Han Solo, the ultimate rog... Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:33 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=70 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=69 The goal of every action movie since 1985 has been to even try to approximate the "scene" in That Movie Where Chuck Norris Comes Out Of The Water. If you grew up in the 80's, you know which one I'm talking about. The 80's legacy of movies i... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:46 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=69 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=68 Untraceable is a thriller in the tradition of Se7en in that it stars Diane Lane as an FBI cyber-crimes agent against a psychopath with a predilection to extremely complex murders and hard-to-fathom motives. There's this website which is, um, hard to ... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:40 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=68 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=67 I read the 1992 Steven Gould novel which was fairly streamlined science fiction: take a precept that a young man can teleport and then play the game of figuring out how things might evolve from there. When he's out of cash, he figures out he can jump... Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:13 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=67 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=66 Teen pregnancy in, fiction (as well as real life), has some absolutely defining features. The most prominent is the moral atmosphere around abortion. The second is around the social consequences both at school and at home. Finally, if life is chosen ... Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:39 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=66 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=65 January is usually the dumping ground for movies that didn't cut it for the holiday season, but starting in 2008 with Cloverfield and now Untraceable this is no longer the case.Untraceable is the story of FBI agent Jennifer March (Diane Lane), a sing... Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:30 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=65 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=64 Cloverfield. Got your attention already, eh? Ok we have a kick ass trailer, a big mystery about "the monster", months and month of speculation and viral marketing (slusho.com?). The web hype machine hit feverish paces over this one, a... Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:06 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=64 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=63 In 1998 a bunch of us went to see Godzilla on opening night in the theater. With us was a real fan: a guy who owned just about every actual Japanese Godzilla movie on DVD and knew the canon. Where I was unimpressed with Ro... Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:55 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=63 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=62 When most people hear "Sweeny Todd" they know very little: Some know it was a Broadway play/musical, and maybe they remember in the film "Jersey Girl", the little girl performed a gory scene from it at her school talent show. That... Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:02 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=62 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=61 Let's talk about "Cloverfield." That clever reinvention of the Japanese monster movie which is opening in theaters nationwide this coming Friday.Why call "Cloverfield" a reinvention? Well, for decades now, whenever Godzilla stompe... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:56 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=61 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=60 Back in 1984 I heard Roger Ebert say on TV that an upcoming movie was about a "Cyborg assassin from the future." He advised viewers to "put your brain on hold for this one." The words "cyborg assassin" weren't very commo... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:59 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=60 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=59 It's fashionable today to talk about how "we" created the Taliban--our own present-day Frankenstein-Monster come back to haunt us. It's less common to hear people discuss the context in which we handed out state-of-the-art Stinger missiles ... Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:36 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=59 http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=58 In the not so distant future the global population will be wiped out. Everyone you have ever met will be dead. Those who survive face an even more grim reality as they are slowly, painfully, and guresomely killed off. The future is 200... Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:24 EST http://www.flickdirect.com/movies/movie-reviews-detail.aspx?id=58