02.13.2009 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated 2026
In 2026, when debt, influencers and shopping-as-identity feel inseparable, Confessions of a Shopaholic reads less like fluff and more like a bright comedy about consumer fantasy.
02.13.2009 | By Jack Rico |
Rated: R for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, language and drug material.
Release Date: 2009-02-13
Starring: Damian Shannon, Mark Swift
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Official Website: www.fridaythe13thmovie.com
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Cinematically, ‘Friday the 13th’ is an awful film parceled with some terrible acting, an uninspired script and unimaginative direction…but god damn was it fun! And that’s what these movies are all about – zoning out, laughing out loud with your buddies and enjoying an innocuous time at the theater.
Relating this premise to you is useless since there really isn’t one to relate. It possesses all the cliches of hundreds of slasher films: bare breasts, gruesome decapitations and laughable dialogues. Not mush else to it. The producers missed a big chance to create something special with Jason and his origins.
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The first 15 minutes are perhaps the best the film has to offer since it’s very fast paced, but then it slows down and any tension that was established is doused. Nevertheless, it is fun and that’s what people who watch these type of films are looking for.
02.13.2009 | By Jack Rico |
Rated: R for some sequences of violence and language.
Release Date: 2009-02-13
Starring: Eric Singer
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Country: USA, Germany
Official Website: http://www.everybodypays.com/
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The International is a complicated film with an intricate plot line and lackluster acting. It’s only redeeming qualities are its action sequences and fast paced direction.
The premise is hard to follow: Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing – even murder – to continue financing terror and war.
Naomi Watts gave the worst performance in her career. It’s as if she has become worse over the years beginning with King Kong. Clive Owen is no Jason Bourne, but is believable enough that the credibility of the film isn’t compromised.
Be ready for what will be the most talked about action sequence of the early new year – the Guggenheim museum shooting frenzy is well worth the watch.
For a production that aspires to be so much more than a typical thriller, The International’s convoluted premise and Naomi’s painful acting achieves only to convey an average movie experience.
02.9.2009 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated 2026
In 2026, Coraline still sits in that strange place between children’s fantasy and adult nightmare, which is why parents keep asking whether the PG label tells the whole story.
02.6.2009 | By Alex Florez |
With an ensemble cast featuring the who’s who of the romantic comedy genre and the Sex and the City writers behind it, He’s Just Not That Into You positions itself as this year’s go-to Valentine’s Day movie. While the film is predictably formulaic, to its credit, it manages to keep the mawkish sentimentality to a minimum. Read More
02.5.2009 | By SBC Staff |
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, brief strong language, smoking and a scene of teen drinking.
Release Date: 2009-02-06
Starring: David Bourla
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Official Website: http://www.push-themovie.com/
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WOOWWWWW…what do I say about PUSH?! It SUCKED! SOOOOOO…bad! I thought this movie was going to be “a little” cool – WRONG! The movie was total garbage…people, PLEASE don’t waste your money on the flick…luckily, I saw it for free. Lots of things went wrong…as soon as it started…the surround sound wasn’t working, then the film wasn’t centered right, then these people next to us were speaking some language I couldn’t understand…all the way through the movie, then…the movie just sucked!
It’s pretty much about this group of people – through experiment after experiment – get telekinetic and clairvoyant powers. There’s good guys and there’s bad guys. The soundtrack sucks – the acting isn’t all that great – there’s this girl (Camilla Belle) in the movie…that just bugged me. (I liked her better in 10,000 B.C.)
There IS one thing good about this movie I DID like…it’s Dakota Fanning. She is dope in the movie…she just rocks! Heck, I only saw it because of her.
So people, if your NOT a Dakota fan…don’t waste your $$.
I give Push…1 out of 5 Popcorns! (1 for Dakota)
P.S. Anyone know how I can get 2 hours of my life back?! (lol)
Have a cold week! (lol)
01.29.2009 | By Alex Florez |
For years now, French filmmaker Luc Besson (The Transporter) has been hemorrhaging preposterous action films that are wildly unsophisticated in their storytelling but that are also inexplicably entertaining. Taken is no exception. Read More
01.28.2009 | By SBC Staff |
Rated: PG-13 for violent and disturbing images, thematic material, sexual content, language and teen drinking.
Release Date: 2009-01-30
Starring: Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro
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‘The Uninvited’ is not your prototypical horror, suspense film. It actually makes an attempt at telling a good dramatic murder story, unfortunately it falls short due to its dreadful dialogue and laughable climactic scenes… until the very end when the twist hits you like a ton of bricks. You never see it coming.
To be brief, the story, based on the 2003 Korean motion picture called “Janghwa, Hongryeon “, is about a family who lost their matriarch in an action-movie-like explosion only to have their youngest daughter (Emily Browning) be committed to an asylum due to the mental and emotional scars of the occurrence. After a period of time, our young protagonist returns home to learn that her father (David Strathairn) has moved on with his life and intends to marry his dead wife’s nurse (Elizabeth Banks). Bad blood brews between the two females and the journey to unmask the true objective of the nurse begins.
The pacing of this film is rather slow, mixed in with average acting and a banal dialogue that only exists to move the story along. The films true virtue lies in its ending and it really is the only worthy element of ‘The Uninvited’. Question is can you wait until the very end?
01.23.2009 | By SBC Staff |
Rated: R for bloody violence and some sexuality.
Release Date: 2009-01-23
Starring: Danny McBride, Dirk Blackman
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Official Website: http://www.entertheunderworld.com/
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Ohh Yeahh….I have been waiting for this one…UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS…it’s actually the prequel to the other two films, Underworld (2003) and Underworld: Evolution (2006). If you are like a few of my friends…living under a few rocks…and haven’t seen the others….then your just fine…start here and rent the others!! (lol)
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The movie’s about the century-old feud between the vampires and werewolves. One day the king vampire (Viktor) finds out that one of his werewolves (slaves) gives birth to a baby…but this baby is ½ werewolf and ½ human. Instead of killing it – he decides to make it his “SUPER†slave and uses him for whatever. Well…you can say that some serious drama goes down and Lucian (super baby lol) decides to rebel and rise up against the vampires. (It’s dope how it goes down!)
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This movie is hella dope – if you liked the other 2 movies – you’ll love this one!! If you haven’t SEEN the others…you’ll love this one! (lol) Where Rise of the Lycans ends…Underworld starts.
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01.20.2009 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated 2026
In 2026, when fantasy IP still promises worlds it cannot always build, Inkheart reads like a reminder that a great premise needs more than pages on a script.
