Quantum of Solace (2008)
Marc Forster has quite the resume beyond making a Bond film, with works like Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger than Fiction, The Kite Runner, World War Z and Christopher Robin. It’s a film that looks back at early Bond films while making its own way, building on the loss that Bond endured at the end […]
Savage Nature: Flu Birds (2008)
A tight-knit group of teens finds themselves fighting for their lives when unexpected visitors — a flock of flesh-eating birds (err, pterodactyls?) infected by a malicious virus — invade their campsite. One by one, these avian assassins wipe them out. Originally shown as Flu Bird Horror on SyFy way back in August 23, 2008 (when it […]
Plaguers (2008)
When an alien contagion is released aboard a spaceship transforming its victims into demonic flesh-eaters, the crew must either destroy the infected or join them. Steve Railsback — yes, the dude from Turkey Shoot and Blue Monkey — stars as Tarver. The Pandora is a freight transport carrier headed toward Earth with a desperately needed new energy supply […]
The Killing Death (2008)
So let’s say Blood Feast was about making the perfect pizza instead of an Egyptian feast. Sure, let’s go with that. Otherwise I won’t have much to hang this review of The Killing Death on, a movie that came out in 2008 but I got an email asking me to review as it’s now on Amazon Prime. […]
Rambo (2008)
Why did it take twenty years to make another Rambo movie? Stallone claims that it was due to a lack of a compelling story. An early idea had Rambo traveling to Mexico to rescue a young girl, but it lacked the Rambo essence of a lost man wandering and trying to find himself. There was […]
JCVD (2008)
This movie started when a producer had reached a deal with Jean-Claude Van Damme to play himself in a movie. Knowing that director Mabrouk El Mechri was a big fan, he asked him to read the script. The problem was that the screenwriters thought that Van Damme was exactly who he tried to portray to […]
Speed Racer (2008)
As a kid, I was totally obsessed with Japanese culture. In the late 1970’s, we had Godzilla, Gamera, Johnny Sokko, Ultraman, Battle of the Planets, Starblazers and Speed Racer all on TV at the same time. The thing is, I was the older brother who always felt like the screw-up, so Racer X was my […]
Get Smart (2008)
Peter Segal has made films that people love — Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps — and critics hate. Here, he’s remaking the Mel Brooks and Buck Henry show that ran from 1965 to 1970. Instead of Don Adams, Steve Carrell takes over as Maxwell Smart. Smart is more geek than spy, in […]
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