Hulk smash!
I just finished watching what has to be the greatest Hulk double feature ever, “Hulk vs. Thor” and “Hulk vs. Wolverine” on the Marvel DVD Hulk vs. I’ve been waiting for this DVD for some time. I just happened on it while walking the new releases. I got it and ran home to [...]
Hulk vs (2009)
The Gene Generation (2007)
I don’t think that The Gene Generation was ever in the theaters because if it was, I would most likely have made the mistake of seeing it on the big screen. Still, I found the movie entertaining enough to finish it while lesson planning.
The Gene Generation stars Ling Bai as Michelle, who is an assassin [...]
Rambo (2008)
I’m a reluctant fan of the Rambo movies. I didn’t see Rambo in the theaters. I didn’t think that another was necessary. I didn’t like the follow ups to the original, First Blood (1982). First Blood had something to say, sad commentary on the state of veterans who return home damaged, shunned, and looking for [...]
Hancock (2008)
When Hancock came to theatres last July I was in no hurry to see it based on the reviews I’d seen and quite frankly the trailers I’d caught didn’t wow me. So, earlier this week, when my roommate wanted to rent some movies we were both fairly ambivalent about seeing Hancock, but neither of us had [...]
John Adams (2008): Part 3: Don’t Tread On Me
My wife is on her way home from the Minnesota State Fair. While she was off helping run a booth, I watched the next episode in the John Adams HBO miniseries.
In this installment, Adams had to once again leave his wife and family in the name of duty. Adams departure for France truly tests his family’s [...]
Step Up (2006)
Here is another terrible admission from The Soulless Machine. I really like the new trend of dance movies. Two of my favorites are Stomp the Yard (2007) and Save the Last Dance (2001). If you want a good list of dance movies you can check out: Dance 1977 – Present.
Step Up is a fun and [...]
In Bruges (2008)
In the interests of proper representation, lets review a non-comicbook related movie…
“Shoot first. Sightsee later.”
Two Irish hitmen take a vacation in Bruges, Belguim… antics ensue, film at eleven.
This movie takes you on a beautiful visual tour of the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium. Our story follows Ray and Ken (played by Colin [...]
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
In a word: Awesome.
I’m always a fan of movies that stay true to the original story. I read the tpb editions of DC: The New Frontier a few months before the dvd came out on the advice of a friend who swears by this story as stongly as he does the work of Alan Moore or Frank [...]
El Laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) (2006)
“What happens when make-believe believes it’s real?”
This was the tag-line for Guillermo del Toro’s beautiful fantasy, translated for Western audiences as “Pan’s Labyrinth”. I learned of this film several months in advance and actively made every effort to ensure that a) I knew where it would be shown in my city. b) All my friends knew about this movie too. I [...]
