sci-fi
Re-enchantment with the World of Hellboy
November 16th, 2008
review of HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY by Diana Taibi starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair directed by Guillermo del Toro Rated PG-13 “The movie’s in theme is… in favor of saying, the most mundane things, the most mundane concerns, are destroying beauty, and they’re destroying spirituality, and they’re destroying ideas, and they’re destroying magic… [...]
Read More...Klaatu Barada NoRemake!
September 29th, 2008
A review by Elliot Strong The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) Directed by Robert Wise Starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Directed by Scott Derrickson Starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly In theaters December 12, 2008 (not yet rated) [youtube]A_bNDv0-ZrU[/youtube] Fifty-seven years ago a science fiction film called The [...]
Read More...Wall-E Review
August 1st, 2008
by guest contributor Caitlyn Stark directed by Andrew Stanton Rated G Hundreds of years in the future, life on earth has ceased to exist as we know it. Humanity’s wastefulness has forced them off the planet entirely, leaving the clean-up in the capable hands of Wall-E’s, robots made by the Buy n Large Mega corporation [...]
Read More...WANTED parties like it’s 1999… again.
July 3rd, 2008
WANTED review by James Harleman starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, and Morgan Freeman Directed by Timur Bekmambetov Rated R It’s been the eternal question on no one’s lips: what would happen if The Matrix and Fight Club had a baby? At least now, we know it would be Wanted… a high octane, man-up, power to [...]
Read More...HULK smash… puny preconceptions and manipulated memories
June 20th, 2008
by James Harleman, Cinemagogue Editor-in-Chief “The first Hulk movie was a failure!” “The first one bombed at the box office!” “The previous movie didn’t have enough Hulk!” “The Hulk effects looked like crap!” “Ang Lee’s movie was depressing!” And so on… and so on… and so on. As The Incredible Hulk smashed into theaters June [...]
Read More...Marvel’s Second Hulk Transformation is SMASHING…
June 14th, 2008
A Review of The Incredible Hulk by Pastor James Harleman Starring Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, and William Hurt Directed by Louis Letterier I can remember my Dad racing home furiously in our Volkswagen Beetle, hoping to drop us in front of the television before the pilot for the 1970s Incredible Hulk began. We rarely missed [...]
Read More...Iron Man’s midlife crisis makes audiences cheer while fans soil themselves with glee
May 7th, 2008
A review of IRON MAN (PG-13) by James Harleman (for an exploratory audio review of the film taught before a live audience, click HERE). I sat through Black Sabbath’s classic “Iron Man” tune, watching the film’s techno-credits dazzle until the familiar scroll kicked in. The friends who’d accompanied me and sat through the two-hour rocket [...]
Read More...Appropriacalypse Now
March 19th, 2008
A Review of Doomsday (R) by Pastor James Harleman When a movie comes out called Doomsday, it invariably draws ones mind to many other end-of-world films that have graced (or smeared) the silver screen over the last several decades. There are so many creative ways the apocalypse might be ushered in, after all. It could [...]
Read More...Is it fate or chance that haunts the Children of Men?
February 5th, 2008
Alfonso Cuarón’s film adaptation of the P.D. James’ book Children of Men is an incredible work of art marked by some of the most amazing cinematography I have seen. Opening on Christmas day in 2006, critics compared the characters of Theo and Kee with Joseph and Mary, calling the film a “modern day nativity story”. [...]
Read More...From Harryhausen to the Handycam: The Beast from 20,000 YouTube Views
January 18th, 2008
A Review of CLOVERFIELD by Pastor James Harleman Rated PG-13 Released January 18, 2008 Directed by Matt Reeves Produced by J.J. Abrams Rob Hawkins is not having a great evening. His New Yorker friends throw him a surprise going away party as he’s headed for a new job in Japan, but he’s distracted; the girl [...]
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