Movies you need to see at Sundance: Part 1
Posted by Scott on January 7, 2009 4 Comments

Since I am heading down to Sundance Film Festival in 2 weeks I thought it would be important to prepare myself and try to figure out what movies were important for me to see. Here …

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Review: ‘Skinwalkers’ on DVD
Saturday, 29 Mar, 2008 – 9:45 | No Comment
Review: ‘Skinwalkers’ on DVD

Director Jim Isaac (The Horror Show, Jason X) has delivered his third movie in almost twenty years. It must mean he makes very good, monumental films … right? Not exactly. OK, I’m trying to maintain …

Review: ‘Revolver’ on DVD
Friday, 28 Mar, 2008 – 11:24 | No Comment
Review: ‘Revolver’ on DVD

Tagline: The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you.
What? It takes you a while to figure out exactly what the heck this movie is all about, but once …

Review: ‘Macbeth’ on DVD
Tuesday, 25 Mar, 2008 – 23:05 | One Comment
Review: ‘Macbeth’ on DVD

“The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.”
For those of you unfamiliar with Shakespeare, …

Review: ‘Black Snake Moan’ on DVD
Tuesday, 18 Mar, 2008 – 23:28 | No Comment
Review: ‘Black Snake Moan’ on DVD

Black Snake Moan (2006) was written and directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and is by no means a perfect film, but it is definitely worth seeing. Samuel L. Jackson plays Lazarus, a religious …

Review: ‘The Darjeeling Limited’
Saturday, 15 Mar, 2008 – 13:03 | No Comment
Review: ‘The Darjeeling Limited’

Travis:
The Darjeeling Limited is writer-director Wes Anderson’s fifth feature-length film. Anderson’s films all share his trademark style of subtle humor surrounded by a slightly surreal world that doesn’t quite fit with reality, but instead exaggerates …

Review: ‘September Dawn’ on DVD
Wednesday, 12 Mar, 2008 – 21:13 | Comments Off
Review: ‘September Dawn’ on DVD

September Dawn (2006) was directed by Christopher Cain (Young Guns) and tells the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah. This horrible event took place 151 years ago on September 11, 1857. As the …

Review: ‘Death Sentence’
Tuesday, 11 Mar, 2008 – 18:22 | No Comment
Review: ‘Death Sentence’

So, I’m on vacation right? I have ideas of how to spend my time off, but they are quickly foiled by some damn coughing bug I picked up somewhere. I decide to stay home and …

Review: ‘Slipstream’
Wednesday, 5 Mar, 2008 – 21:54 | No Comment
Review: ‘Slipstream’

“A dream within a dream,” a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, a line and a strange influence on this film that is mesmorizing and pleasing but also deeply cerebral and totally wacked. Anthony Hopkins stars …

Review: ‘Right at Your Door’
Monday, 3 Mar, 2008 – 1:39 | One Comment
Review: ‘Right at Your Door’

What would it be like to find yourself stranded in your own house during the fallout of multiple dirty bombs? Right at Your Door is one interpretation of the aftermath of such a terrorist attack. …

Review: ‘Across the Universe’ on DVD
Sunday, 2 Mar, 2008 – 15:42 | 5 Comments
Review: ‘Across the Universe’ on DVD

Trevor:
I hate musicals. Despise them. Even for a very amateur “musician,” music lover and one who appreciates movies I have never enjoyed a musical. The lyrics never seem to fit with the music, the music …

Review: ‘Chaos’
Saturday, 1 Mar, 2008 – 15:10 | 2 Comments
Review: ‘Chaos’

I was buying groceries the other day and out in front of the store is one of the many new Red Box DVD vending machines we see everywhere. I have a habit of stopping on …

Review: ‘The Amateurs’
Monday, 18 Feb, 2008 – 10:13 | No Comment
Review: ‘The Amateurs’

Travis:
First-time writer/director Michael Traeger [actually, he has written a few television scripts] has made one heck of a good little comedy with The Moguls (2005), which has been renamed and re-released in Sweden and the …

Review: ‘Hatchet’ on DVD
Saturday, 16 Feb, 2008 – 2:26 | 3 Comments
Review: ‘Hatchet’ on DVD

Hatchet
Cast & Credits
Ben: Joel Moore
Marybeth: Tamara Feldman
Marcus: Deon Richmond
Victor Crowley: Kane Hodder
Written & Directed by Adam Green
Running time: 84 minutes
Unrated
Before I begin my review of Hatchet, let me reference a much better movie.
In David Cronenberg’s …

Review: ‘King of California’
Sunday, 10 Feb, 2008 – 21:39 | No Comment
Review: ‘King of California’

Travis:
King of California sort of slipped in under the radar. I remember reading a brief synopsis in a local theatre newsletter and thinking “that looks kinda good.” With all good intentions, and while trying to …

Review: ‘Rocket Science’
Friday, 1 Feb, 2008 – 21:24 | No Comment
Review: ‘Rocket Science’

There’s something special about those years we spend in high school, trying to figure everything out. We’re supposed to be learning algebra, biology and whatever else is required. In truth, the only thing we really …

Review: ‘Dragon Wars’
Tuesday, 22 Jan, 2008 – 0:42 | No Comment
Review: ‘Dragon Wars’

Dragon Wars is Korean director Hyung-rae Shim’s first attempt at an American blockbuster. ‘Attempt’ being the key word here. For some reason, this movie got an enormous amount of advertising and publicity when entering theatres. …

Review: ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ on DVD
Tuesday, 15 Jan, 2008 – 23:11 | No Comment
Review: ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ on DVD

First let me say that I should have known better. From reading all of the negative, horrible reviews and Lindsey Lohan’s huge decline in popularity..i should have known better.
Sadly during one of the opening scene’s …

Review: ‘Death Sentence’ on DVD
Monday, 14 Jan, 2008 – 7:59 | One Comment
Review: ‘Death Sentence’ on DVD

Kevin Bacon stars in this action thriller. Now this movie doesn’t break any barriers, or change the way you watch movies … but I did find it very enjoyable. I started watching it and it …