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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Physical Media: Blu-ray Review

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Skynet Edition)

Nathan M Rose | May 23, 2009

There has never been another DVD (and looking like Blu-ray for that matter) that has been released as many times as 1991 smash hit film, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Now with the release of the...

Full Review | Grade: B

Terminator Salvation

Nathan M Rose | May 21, 2009

Since 1984, the Terminator franchise has teased us about the war in the future, the war after Judgment Day. Now in 2009, McG and Warner Bros bring that war to light with Terminator: Salvation &n...

Full Review | Grade: B

Angels & Demons

Roger Longenbach | May 18, 2009

Shortly after 2006's The Da Vinci Code became a commercial success, Imagine Entertainment began work on the prequel to that novel, Angels and Demons. Due to the writer's strike...

Full Review | Grade: D

Star Trek

Marco Chacon | May 11, 2009

Star Trek's promise has always been that it would show us a “for-real Utopian future” where the best voices of mankind have triumphed. Star Trek’s fans, sometimes reaching reli...

Full Review | Grade: B

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Marco Chacon | May 04, 2009

Wolverine takes the most popular character from the three successful X-Men movies, and explores his origins befo...

Full Review | Grade: B

State of Play

Marco Chacon | Apr 27, 2009

"Message movies" (like Stop Loss or Lions for Lambs) have a particular formula. They set up the victim for badness, but they must be sufficiently likable and innocent to be outrageous....

Full Review | Grade: B

Fighting

Marco Chacon | Apr 27, 2009

I am on the lookout for the Rocky of Mixed-Martial Arts fighting. The "boxing story" is already i...

Full Review | Grade: B

Sin City

Marco Chacon | Apr 21, 2009

Frank Miller's "film noir" graphic novel series, riffs off the 'black, white, and [read] all over' joke. In this case, it is a gritty crime drama that is done in black and white and ha...

Full Review | Grade: B

Crank 2: High Voltage

Nathan M Rose | Apr 19, 2009

A budding action star, Jason Statham, stared as Chev Chelios in a low budget film entitled Crank in 2006. Set in a surreal world that basically was a cinematic version of the Full Review | Grade: F

The Matrix

Nathan M Rose | Apr 18, 2009

Every couple of years a movie comes along that defines a generation of films. In 1999, that film was, The Matrix. Now, ten years later, the film that defined a generation makes its way to...

Full Review | Grade: B