08.28.2008 | By Alex Florez |
We know someone is either betraying a friend, a country or a principle – that we obviously get from the title. But who and why is something that’s buried deep enough in the film to keep us guessing and wondering how clever the filmmakers can actually get with this. Read More
08.21.2008 | By SBC Staff |
A remake of Roger Corman’s 1975 cult action film starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, Death Race pumps even more adrenaline and senseless gore into a film that seems more like a video game adaptation than a ‘B’ movie remake. Read More
08.21.2008 | By SBC Staff |
From the get-go The House Bunny wants you to believe it’s a post-modern fairy tale comedy set on a college campus. Only when it nearly forgets what the moral to its story is, it almost becomes the ‘makeover’ episode from a daytime talk show. In fact, I’m inclined to say it turns the word ‘makeover’ into a genre. Read More
08.16.2008 | By Alejandro Arbona |
*Updated December 2025
Tropic Thunder, the new comedic vehicle by Ben Stiller and his pals, kicks off with an assault on the audience so unexpected and so enormously funny that it takes you totally by surprise and disarms you completely. Unfortunately, though Tropic Thunder is pretty good at several other points, this sequence ends up being the funniest in the entire movie.
08.13.2008 | By Alex Florez |
*Updated December 2025
Not so long ago, New York-based director Woody Allen confessed to us that the reason there are never any prominent Hispanic characters in his films is because he sticks to what he knows. Woody Allen usually focuses on old Jewish families, upper-class Manhattanites, and chaotic love affairs that flirt with death. Read More
08.8.2008 | By Jack Rico |
Men who are film critics, such as myself, stereotypically aren’t fond of the movie genre known as ‘the chick flick’. We usually have to remove our male biased opinions towards them and see it for the cinematic work that they are. In this particular case, I must admit, ‘The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2’ was an enjoyable and delightful film that engrossed me for its 2 hour duration. Read More
08.7.2008 | By Jack Rico |
*Updated 2026
This 2008 Elegy movie review lands differently in 2026 because the film’s central anxiety, an older man terrified that youth and beauty will leave him behind, still feels painfully current. The original review’s point is simple: Isabel Coixet’s drama is worth slowing down for.
08.6.2008 | By Alejandro Arbona |
*Updated December 2025
The title Pineapple Express refers to one plot element that turns out to be perhaps the movie’s most influential character: an especially potent kind of marijuana. Read More
08.5.2008 | By SBC Staff |
It’s always a tricky situation to have a film’s protagonist be some-thing rather than some-one. Such is the case with Bottle Shock, wherein California wine, in particular the one from Napa Valley, plays the underdog that goes for glory against all odds. It may sound absurd, but at times this film does indeed have this ‘Rocky’ sensibility to it, where respect is earned and hearts are won. Read More
07.31.2008 | By Alex Florez |
Make no bones about it, The Mummy franchise is and always has been a blatant attempt to recreate the Indiana Jones lore. In this third installment, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the similarities are even more apparent. Read More
