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Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions BlogMaxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions BlogFun-to-read independent movie reviews and opinions. 2-5 movies are reviewed every week, whether on TV, DVD or in theatres. Subscribe to our free RSS feed to get latest reviews in your blog reader! Articles
Foyle?s War (2002-2008) TV-PG
2008-09-09 07:27:00 Foyle’s War (2002-2008) “Foyle’s War” is British TV drama series that marry history of World War I I and detective mystery. The plot: English Channel is the only thing that separates Britain from the Nazi invasion. In a small town of Hastings in the vulnerable Southern coast. While the whole Europe is at war, people of Hastings do ... More About: Movies , Drama , Foreign , V Series
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray releases this week (Sep 9, 2008)
2008-09-07 08:11:00 These movies come out on DVD and Blu-Ray the week of September 9, 2008 . The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) PG-13 Kung fu legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li star in this exciting adventure about a martial arts movie fanatic named Jason (Michael Angarano) who discovers a mystical Chinese staff in a local pawnshop that transports him to war-torn ancient ... More About: Week
More media servers support Netflix
2008-09-04 23:40:00 Recently Media Mall Technologies announced Beta 3 version of its Play On media server. MediaMall currently bundles its ActiveTV media server with several networking media players, including D-Link DSM 520 and DSM 720. Both ActiveTV and PlayOn servers come with default configuration containing several hundred “channels”, includng CNN, Hulu, Reuters, NPR, Yahoo!, VH1, MTV, ESPN, BBC News, ... More About: Hardware , Media Player , Servers
?Traitor? is this year?s ?Departed?
2008-09-02 20:17:00 Traitor (2008) PG-13 I did not have high expectations for this movie, but I knew that given right material and direction, Don Cheadle can perform miracles on screen. His roles in “Hotel Rwanda” and “Crash” won him Best Actor nominations. This time he also showed himself as very talented producer. Guess who else produced this movie? Steve ... More About: Year , Departed , Traitor
Hot new Blu-Ray and DVD releases this week (September 2, 2008)
2008-09-01 08:48:00 This week is big on releases of various TV series on DVD. But the highlight of the week is… Transformers - Two Disc Special Edition (2007) PG-13 Based on the popular toys that transform from machines into giant robots, this live-action movie from Pearl Harbor director Michael Bay finds the planet Cybertron inhabitants engaging in a secret war ... More About: Movies , Week , September , 2008
Review: Death Race (2008) R 89min
2008-08-30 23:29:00 Death Race (2008) The Death Race is an action movie based on 1975 film Death Race 2000 and written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Both movies were produced by Roger Corman. The original movie was starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone. The new movie has Jason Statham in the main role. The plot: In the year ... More About: Movies , Action , Films , Review
Review: Stop-Loss (2008) R 112min
2008-08-29 10:49:00 Stop-Loss (2008 ) This Paramount Pictures’ Iraq war-themed drama shot in Texas and Morocco was directed by Kimberly Peirce (writer and director behind Boys Don’t Cry) and written by her and Mark Richard. Starring Ryan Phillipe, Timothy Olyphant (Catch And Release, Live Free or Die Hard, Hitman, Turok) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Beethoven, Roseanne, The Lookout, 10 Things ... More About: Review , Stop , Stop-Loss
Review: Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) R 121min
2008-08-27 09:38:00 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006) This award-winning picture was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, his first work as director, and based on the book by Guillermo Arriaga, an Oscar-nominated author and play-writer. Arriaga also wrote script for Universal/Focus feature film Amores Perros (2000) starring Benicio Del Torro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn, 21 Grams (2004) and finally ... More About: Movies , Drama , Adventure , Mexico , Review
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week (August 26, 2008)
2008-08-25 07:30:00 The Nightmare Before Christmass (1993) PG Enter an extraordinary world filled with magic and wonder - where every holiday has its own special land … and imaginative, one-of-a-kind characters. The Nightmare Before Christmas tells the heartfelt tale of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town and all things that go bump in the night. DVD | Blu-Ray What ... More About: Week , August , 2008
LG and Netflix partnership delivers its first baby - BD300
2008-08-22 23:09:00 The partnership that Netflix and LG announced around New Year had resulted in a long-awaited product, just in time for back-to-school and Thanksgiving holiday. LG’s next Blu-Ray disk player BD300 will also be able to stream Netflix to TV-sets. Users will be able to select a title from their Netflix queue and playback will begin in ... More About: Baby , Xbox
New 80GB PlayStation 3 available September 1
2008-08-21 08:20:00 Sony discovered pretty quickly that the original 60GB Play Station 3 [read Maxim's Review] may have been too expensive for some people, so they came up with cheaper 40GB PlayStation 3. This new model had no backwards compatibility with PlayStation 2, but was cheaper, quieter, and cooler. But we live in the age where multiple competitors are ... More About: Hardware , Playstation , Blu-Ray , Home Theater
Toshiba announces new 1080p DVD player with XDE
2008-08-19 10:48:00 After a devastating and embarrasing loss to Sony in the high definition video disk war, Toshiba ended production of its HD-DVD players, but they still found a use for their powerful upscaler. Previously, Toshiba’s HD-DVD players were capable of up-converting regular DVDs to 1080p with amazing quality, and that’s where Toshiba believes the near-term future ... More About: Player , Home Theater
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week (August 19, 2008)
2008-08-19 10:16:00 House, M.D. - Season Four (2007) NR In the fourth season of this Emmy-nominated drama, the always-cranky House (Hugh Laurie) deals with the departure of his entire diagnostic team by hiring 40 new doctors and forcing them to compete in “Survivor”-like fashion for permanent positions on his staff. While firing unqualified candidates left and right, House uses ... More About: Week , August , 2008
Review: Tropic Thunder (2008) R 107min
2008-08-19 03:08:00 Tropic Thunder (2008) This latest summer comedy is directed by Ben Stiller - his first movie since Zoolander (2001), and is written by Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The plot: A big-budget war movie with star-actors is being cancelled by the studio. Desperate to save the movie and turn it into a biggest baddest war movie ever made, ... More About: Tom Cruise , Comedy , Movies , Action , Vietnam
Review: Pineapple Express (2008) R 111min
2008-08-13 20:00:00 Pineapple Express (2008) After Seth Rogen and his buddy Evan Goldberg wrote the script for Superbad when they were 15 years old, they also were itching to write a script for an action movie, but with a twist. Nobody has done this before: if an action movie married a stoner comedy and they had a child, and that ... More About: Comedy , Action , Crime , Films , Pineapple
Review of ?The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor? (2008) PG-13 112min
2008-08-04 00:39:00 The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (2008) Brendan Fraser returns to movie theaters for another adventure as intrepid explorer Rick O’Connell. The plot: Rick and Eve O’Connell spend the fortune they earned in the past two adventures in after-war England in a huge mansion. Both of them pretend that they are quite happy with this lifestyle ... More About: Movies , Maria Bello , Action , Michelle Yeoh , Adventure
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week (August 5, 2008)
2008-08-03 22:12:00 Foyle’s War: Set 5 (2008 ) NR Detective chief superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is forced to come out of retirement to aid the undermanned police force in Hastings, a coastal English town surrounded by the chaos and confusion of the ongoing WWII campaign. Expertly blending fiction and history, the fifth season of this period crime drama has ... More About: Week , August , August 5
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases this week (July 29, 2008)
2008-07-28 06:13:00 Beowulf (2007) UR Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Beowulf tells of the great 6th-century Scandinavian warrior called upon to defeat a manlike ogre named Grendel (Crispin Glover), a descendant of the biblical murderer Cain. Based on the longest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem, this film adaptation’s notable cast includes Anthony Hopkins as King Hrothgar, Angelina Jolie as Grendel’s tormented mother, ... More About: Week , July , 2008
Hot Movie Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray this week (July 22, 2008)
2008-07-23 03:10:00 21 (2008 ) PG-13 Struggling to come up with his MIT tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) turns to one of his professors (Kevin Spacey), who trains him and five fellow students to become card-counting experts, with the intent of swindling millions of dollars out of Vegas casinos. The film is based on the nonfiction best-seller Bringing Down the ... More About: Movie , Movie Releases , Week , July
Review: The Dark Knight (2008) PG-13 152min
2008-07-22 23:56:00 The Dark Knight (2008) By now everyone knows that The Dark Knight (a.k.a. Batman Begins 2) has been a boxoffice record-setting sequel to the 2005′ Batman Begins. This menacing graphic novel made for screen was directed by Christopher Nolan, who also directed the original Batman Begins and written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, the script-writer ... More About: Review
Low expectations for Mamma Mia!
2008-07-17 17:42:00 The screen adaptation of Mamma Mia! musical is opening in movie theatres this weekend. The studio is trying to capitalize on the international success of the Broadway show. Perhaps it’s targeting those people who didn’t want to pay full ticket price or weren’t able to see the Broadway show and now may see it for the price ... More About: Tom Hanks , Pierce Brosnan , Colin Firth , Amanda Seyfried , Expectations
Review of ?Hellboy II: The Golden Army? (2008) PG-13 110min
2008-07-16 19:38:00 Better then the original Hellboy (2004). Very entertaining. Not particularly memorable. Would not watch it second time. No originality. More About: Review , Army , Golden , 2008
Netflix will be available on XBox 360
2008-07-15 02:38:00 Microsoft has announced on Monday at E3 video game convention an alliance with Netflix that will allow it to stream more then 10,000 Netflix movie titles on Microsoft’s XBox 360 console. Microsoft is the latest hardware provider to join Netflix alliance after Roku began selling $100 Netflix streaming boxes in June. Just like with Roku network ... More About: Hardware , Movies , Xbox , Xbox 360 , Home Theater
Hot New DVD And Blu-Ray Releases This Week (July 15, 2008)
2008-07-14 23:41:00 Movies The Bank Job (2008 ) R Based on a true 1971 event, this thriller tells the story of Terry (Jason Statham), a car dealer who becomes involved in a London bank heist only to find that the contents of the bank vault will draw him deeply and irrevocably into the city’s criminal underbelly. Murder and scandal abound in ... More About: Movies , Week , July
Dead Man (1995) R 2h
2008-07-09 07:33:00 Review: Dead Man (1995) This dramatic western starring Johnny Depp was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The plot: After death of his parents, William Blake, an accountant from Cleveland, takes a job offer and moves to the Town of Machine at the end of the train line. However he arrived about two months late. Penniless, he’s picked ... More About: Movies , Drama , Gang
Review: Wanted (2008) R 110min
2008-07-08 09:38:00 Wanted (2008) Russian director Timur Bekmambetov is already known to American audience by his films Night Watch: Nochnoy Dozor and Day Watch: Dnevnoy Dozor and the next part, Twilight Watch: Sumerechniy Dozor based on Sergei Lukyanenko’s bestselling book. That movie went out in limited release. Those who are old enough remember two dramatic movies he made about Soviet soldiers ... More About: Movies , Action , Destiny , Chicago , Factory
Hot new DVD and Blu-Ray releases this week (July 8, 2008)
2008-07-08 00:18:00 Batman Begins (2005) PG-13 After training with a ninja (Ken Watanabe) in Asia following his parents’ brutal murder, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) returns to Gotham City and finds it overrun with crime and corruption. Discovering a cave under Wayne Manor, Bruce assumes a new identity and wages a one-man war against the criminals that plague the city. ... More About: Movies , Week , July , 2008
Hancock (2008) PG-13 92min
2008-07-04 20:30:00 Hancock (2008) Hancock (a.k.a. John Hancock, a.k.a. Tonight He Comes) is directed by Peter Berg written by Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. The plot: LA’s local super-hero John Hancock (Will Smith) is really unpopular. Homeless and drunkard, he still helps people and saves them when they are in need, ... More About: Comedy , Movies , Drama , Action
Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week (July 2, 2008)
2008-07-01 08:39:00 The Closer - The Complete 3rd Season (2007) NR Underneath her Southern belle exterior, Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson (Golden Globe winner Kyra Sedgwick) is one of the LAPD’s best weapons, able to wring the truth from even the toughest suspect. She may step on a few toes, including those of her boss, Will Pope (J.K. Simmons), ... More About: Movies , Week , July , 2008
WALL-E (2008) G 103min
More articles from this author:2008-06-30 17:42:00 WALL-E (2008) Another warm, thought-provoking and wonderfully animated movie from Disney Pixar, written and directed by Andrew Stanton. The plot: In the not-so-far future humans trashed and polluted planet Earth and even space surrounding it so much, that life can no longer be sustained and they had to evacuate the planet on giant space ships. They attempted to clean ... More About: Comedy , Movies , Animation , Space , Robot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
