Urban Docent Movie Reviews
Saturday, August 15, 2009

"District 9" - C

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I purposefully avoided reviews and fanboy hype about " District 9 " before seeing it on opening night. I entered with just a gener...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Rapid round-up o' summer-like pics

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" X-Men Origins: Wolverine " - Terrible CG and bad acting abound on straight-to-DVD levels. This is not a worthy successor to the ...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

"Valkyrie" - B+

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Enough with the hero pics for director Bryan Singer , and I'm glad for it. This is a solid production with a reverential look back at so...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - B

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A time-traveling delight ( of sorts ) with enough in the tank to keep nearly anyone happy, " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button "...

"The Spirit" - C

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Disclaimer: Nothing I have to say about this movie will diminish the wonderful experience of reading Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Re...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

"Quantum Of Solace" - B -

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Bond is back, and Daniel Craig's performance in " Quantum of Solace " will do nothing to dissuade you from thinking he is the...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

"We've Got Movie Sign" -- Big in Europe

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

"Persepolis" - B

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Snooty French-fried films are not typically on my to-watch list, but the nifty little animated import " Persepolis " is really a r...

"Superhero Movie" - D

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Replete with all the stupid jokes, movie parodies and tasteless humor that you can cram into a PG-13 production, " Superhero Movie ...
Monday, August 4, 2008

"Surf's Up" - C

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With this you get an animated mockumentary melded with a coming-of-age tale and sports flick all rolled into one. It's formulaic at best...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

"The Big Lebowski" - 10th Anniversary

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This is one of the silliest and yet most polarizing "comedies" I've ever seen. Many people see it, get it and enjoy watching ...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" - teaser trailer

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A teaser trailer for November's "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is now available here . For those of you too lazy to ...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

"Watchmen" watch

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Now iTune users have a few things to keep them occupied until "The Watchmen" is released next year. Take a look around in the iTun...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

"The Dark Knight" - A

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To say that the hype machine was working overtime for the newest Batman flick would be somewhat of an understatement. ...

"HellBoy 2: The Golden Army" - C

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Yes, this movie is not as good as the original. And if you hated the first, you'll likely not enjoy this one. They spend a lot of time b...

The Rapid Round-Up Of Flicks I've Seen Lately ....

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" The Forbidden Kingdom " — Wow! Jackie Chan and Jet Li, together at last. This is going to be great, right? Not so fast .....

"AvP: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem" - F

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Oh boy ... did this ever suck. I mean it; this one was bad. And to make matters worse, for some idiot reason, thi...

Charlton Heston -- RIP

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The great Charlton Heston is now no longer with us, but his impressive catalog of films will forever flood our memories with swaggering lin...

"City of Industry" - D-

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Here's another short review, because there's just not much to say about this one.... There are good "California" movies, a...
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"30 Days of Nights" - D

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Really, I don't have much to say about " 30 Days of Nights ," which is new to DVD this month. It's a startlin...

"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" - A

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When I pulled the Jesse James DVD from the shelf of my local Blockbuster, the clerk gave me a dubious, "Humm ....," as he rung up ...
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"Gone Baby Gone" - D+

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Hey look everybody! It's a movie with Casey Affleck , and it's directed by his big brother, Ben . Wow; it's even based on a bo...

"Michael Clayton" - C+

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Fresh to DVD just in time for the Oscars, last year's " Michael Clayton " is a legal thriller that seeks to reset the genre...

Double review

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Sure ... I'd expect French cinema to be pretentious, but I thought the recent proliferation of American musical movies would have improv...

"Casshern" - B-

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At a time that I cannot really recall clearly, some little switch inside my peabrain was flipped and I gave up on seeing movies just because...

"Rescue Dawn" - B+

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Ok . . . so my consecutive reviews of Christian Bale flicks took a slight detour with the recent unveiling of that zombie pic. But you shoul...

"3:10 to Yuma" - C+

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New to DVD this week is last year's western, " 3:10 to Yuma " — a remake of a 1957 movie of the same title, which is bas...

"Two-Lane Blacktop" - A-

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Way back in the day, there was this acceptable genre of film that involved bikers, solitary drivers, racers and other nomads heading (seemin...

"American Gangster" - C-

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Ridley Scott's " American Gangster " has been praised, bashed and rehashed since its release. Detractors have stated that it...

"I Am Legend" - C+

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The latest drop in the Hollywood big bucket o' blockbusters is the Will Smith vehicle, " I Am Legend ." A nice departure from ...

"No Country for Old Men" - A

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You may or may not have seen it yet, but "No Country for Old Men" continues to steamroll its way up the "favorites" list...

"Ratatouille" - A

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Relatively new to DVD, the Disney/Pixar adventure " Ratatouille " is the best outing yet for the all-digital animators. I...

"Carnival of Souls" - B+

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There are many, many horrible films still floating around the net and dollar bins across this county thanks to that c...

"28 Weeks Later" - B +

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Anybody who has talked with me about movies and films will know that I don't do well with crap, and at the same time I am a complete ...

"Dead Alive" (aka "Braindead") - B+

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Almost a decade before Peter Jackson brought us the first installment of his definitive cinematic expression of the "Lord of the R...

"Saw III" - D

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Hey, remember that little movie franchise known as the "Saw" films? If you haven't heard, they came out with a flick la...
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