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Review: Shoot ‘Em Up
/ September 10, 2007 12:00 AM

Review: Shoot ‘Em Up

When you think about the hundreds of ways you can kill a man with ordinary household objects, chances are that using a carrot is not high on your list, or at all. After all those orange vegetables loathed by kids and loved by rabbits on their way to Albuquerque could never be really used as a weapon, right? Leave it

Review: Death Jr and the Science Fair of Doom
/ July 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Review: Death Jr and the Science Fair of Doom

Death Jr. makes his Nintendo DS debut in the title Death Jr and the Science Fair of Doom. In this installment of the franchise, we join DJ and the gang at the school’s annual science fair. Each student has brought their own science fair project, and when one of them goes haywire, the school is transformed into a demonic twisted

Review: Platypus
/ December 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Review: Platypus

Platypus is a throwback to the old school games of the 16-bit era where 2D sprites could slide across the screen dodging bombs and bullets while attempting to ring up the highest score and enter those initials on that ending screen. The game is really hit or miss with the presentation being the biggest hit where the classic gameplay is

/ June 13, 2005 12:00 AM

Review: Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman knows his action, and after the amazing car chase scene in The Bourne Identity and the action here, the man certainly is the one to hire when it comes to pulling off some bitchin’ sequences. Unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, while being high on humor and explosions, fails a bit in the story

/ May 17, 2004 12:00 AM

Review: Troy

Homer’s epics of The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the greatest literary works in the history of the world. They contain great battles, a great story, and everything that made Ancient Greece one of the most amazing civilizations still studied in school. Wolfgang Peterson’s Troy seriously bobbles the ball when it comes to adapting the source material for

/ March 26, 2004 12:00 AM

Review: Walking Tall

The Rock’s breakout performance was in the prequel to The Mummy, entitled The Scorpion King, where he reprised his role of the title character originally established in The Mummy Returns. Next up was last year’s The Rundown, and while the story was nothing to get excited about, it was the professional wrestler’s onscreen charisma with Seann William Scott that gave

/ December 15, 2003 12:00 AM

Review: I-Ninja

With the amount of time that I have been able to spend with I-Ninja I can safely say that, while it introduces nothing new to the platforming genre, Argonaut’s title does combine some of the best elements of platforming with fighting, puzzle, and straight forward action. These fundamentals combined can only lead to a rewarding experience if the game didn’t

/ September 23, 2003 12:00 AM

Review: The Rundown

The Rock has arrived, pure and simple. The Rundown may be a simple movie, with a simple storyline that wouldn’t normally be considered a star-making film, but for the wrestler turned actor, the movie represents a coming of age and a succession to the throne. Please note, The Rundown would be nothing without the performances of the main actors, in

/ September 18, 2003 12:00 AM

Review: Once Upon A Time in Mexico

Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi series has been the delight of Tarantino fans, as well as the general public. While never being a huge box office success (Desperado only pulled in about $25 million dollars in it’s domestic run in 1995) the series has won over the heart of fans who love the blast-tastic (yes I made a word up) gun

/ August 11, 2003 12:00 AM

Review: S.W.A.T.

Sony is really starting to show some muscle as the big provider of popcorn-summer-movie-fun. First we get the laugh-a-minute Bad Boys II which games us new reasons to buy a Hummer, now we have S.W.A.T. a film ripped from reality, stripped of believability, and delivered to the audience with the action running constantly. S.W.A.T., based off a little known TV