Takers is a film that is far more about style than substance. This style is often cold and unconvincing but it does deliver workable performances and some truly cool action scenes. Also, it is awfully blue.
Takers is a pretty standard heist movie about a highly skilled team of thieves who are being pursued by a [...]
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Takers Movie Review
The Last Exorcism Movie Review
Exorcism movies scare me. I have a real problem with them for some reason. While I believe that possession is most often if not always just the effects of a psychological disorder like paranoid schizophrenia or a combination of several psychoses working together, the concept of it scares the crap out of me. So I [...]
Dish Network Launches Video Streaming Service with Help from Hulu
Dish Network understands what it is going to take to compete with the likes of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube Rentals and Apple’s revamped iTV (previously Apple TV); Welcome Dish Online.
The Landscape is Changing
As more and more people move to streaming online to chop down on their cable bill, one of two things are absolutely going to happen [...]
All-Nite Scream-o-rama Postmortem
The All-Nite Scream-o-Rama at Tucson’s the Loft Cinema was so awesome and horrifying I had to wait a full week (and some change) to write about it.
In past years, I have been kind of a wuss and left after about three movies. The first year had to do with some not so friendly texting from [...]
Piranha 3D Movie Review
When you hear the title Piranha 3D, even if you didn’t know about the 1978 original, chances are you think of a ridiculous horror movie with a ridiculous story and a lot of exploitative sex, nudity and violence all put together with writing so questionable it may as well have been scrawled on a napkin [...]
Book of Blood Movie Mini-Review
Introduction
Book of Blood is not a classic Clive Barker horror movie in the “insane creatures and rampant gore” sense, but it is an interesting story told in a very creative way.
Review
Unfortunately for me, I rented Book of Blood at the drop of a hat after I came across the screen cap from the movie above, [...]
Expendables Movie Review
The trailers for the Expendables were frustrating. They basically showed you that the cast was made up of just about everybody in action movies since the 80’s (with the exception of a few who balked at the size of the part, didn’t want to be in an ensemble picture or couldn’t leave the country due [...]
Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Movie Review
It isn’t often that I see a movie that I love so completely that I would change nothing about it and that I think absolutely perfect in every way. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World is one such movie. It is also probably going to be one of the most polarizing films in history and while [...]
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Review
Okay, so a friend of mine hooked me up to see the final dress rehearsal of the Arizona Onstage production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – opening tonight at the Temple of Music and Art (330 S. Scott Ave.) – and I gladly accepted. I hadn’t seen it and I thought it would [...]
The Other Guys Movie Review
In a summer filled with hit or miss would be blockbusters it is good to know that the slack was taken up by a good crop of comedies and even better that we get to wave goodbye to the season with the best yet.
I was having lunch with a friend of mine the other day [...]
Patrick’s 20 Favorite Action Movies
In honor of the upcoming super group of an action movie the Expendables starring Sylvester Stallone and just about everyone who’s been in an action movie in the past 20 years (aside from a few that didn’t want to be in an ensemble piece, didn’t think the character had enough to do or flat weren’t [...]
The Kids Are All Right Movie Review
The Kids Are All Right is an amazing film. It is at turns funny,dramatic, challenging and uncomfortable but it is always compelling and engaging.
Co-written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right is a look what happens when the children of a lesbian couple decide they want to meet and get to know [...]
Dinner for Schmucks Movie Review
Dinner for Schmucks is kind of amazing and watching it is like watching a skilled juggler juggle a puppy, a kitten, a baby seal and a chainsaw. The whole scene is hilarious to watch but you are just waiting for bloodshed. In this case it goes one better by making you cringe so hard that [...]
Salt Movie Review
Salt, starring Angelina Jolie, is a great many things but probably the thing it is the most is absolutely preposterous. The basic conceit of the story is so out there that if you can’t suspend your disbelief there you will be done. If you are able to just accept it and move on, you will [...]
Review – Arizona Grand Resort
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then prepare yourself for about 10,000 words of what could possibly be the coolest place in the state to escape during the long, hot days of an Arizona summer. I am referring, of course, to the Arizona Grand Resort, located at 8000 Arizona Grand Parkway in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Arizona [...]
Valve Free Game Giveaway Today: Alien Swarm
Heads up to the gamers out there, Valve is giving away their new 4-player co-op, top-down, action-based game Alien Swarm today over Steam; the game “unlocks” in a couple of hours for anyone wanting to install it.
Alien Swarm was developed by a couple of developers Valve hired directly out of the mod community and has [...]
Inception Movie Review
First off, Inception was hands down the best film I have seen all year so far and it needs to get some attention, and a lot of it, this awards season. Sadly, telling you why is going to be very difficult from a story perspective to avoid spoilers. But even with just the minimum of [...]
Toy Story 3 Mini Review
I just got back from Toy Story 3 in 3D and I have a few thoughts on the film that I’d like to share with the readers and get your feedback on this:
This was about half as funny as Toy Story 2 – at least I found myself laughing about half as much during this [...]
Predators Movie Review
I’ve been looking forward to Predators for a long time. I love Predator and I love Robert Rodriguez. It should have been a match made in heaven but I can’t help but feel disappointed. There were a lot of good ideas and a lot of it was executed well but a few key flaws really [...]
Twilight Saga: Eclipse Movie Review
Just to get this out of the way right up front, Eclipse is by far the best of the Twilight movies so far. Many of the annoying things of the past movies were fixed and it looked fabulous. That being said, the problem that even the best Twilight movie is always going to have, and [...]
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Review & Free License Giveaway!
Summary
WinX DVD Ripper is a versatile easy to use DVD ripping and re-encoding utility for a multitude of your devices.
Review
There are many ripping and re-encoding utilities out there such as Handbreak, but none we have seen are as easy to use as this program. Within 3 clicks you can be ripping a DVD in the [...]
Patrick’s 10 Favorite Vampire and Werewolf Movies
The 4th of July weekend was handily dominated by the latest installment of the Twilight film series, that misbegotten teen romance series in which a vapid and incompetent girl is inexplicably wooed by a teenage vampire who sparkles and is only vaguely a vampire and a teenage werewolf who doesn’t wear shirts and isn’t a [...]
Retro Review – Boardinghouse!!!
Here in Tucson, we have this FABULOUS movie theater that shows all sorts of independent films, art films, cult films, and all manner of alternative films that you may not see anywhere else in town. It’s called The Loft, and it’s been around since Christ was a corporal (www.loftcinema.com). Everybody loves The Loft, and every Monday, [...]
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360) Review
Summary [8.0 out of 10]
Filling in the back story of why the Transformers had to leave their home world, War for Cybertron fits snugly into the official cannon of Generation 1. The ten chapter campaign gives you five chapters from the Decepticon point of view and five chapters from the Autobot point of view and [...]
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