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Articles by Carljoe Javier

• Genre mash-ups and old-school wonderment in Super 8

  25 June 2011   Throughout Super 8 viewers familiar with Spielberg will find scenes that hearken to the old ma…

• Hangover 2: More of the same, and a bit more

  17 June 2011 The main difference? The first film had a sense of surprise to it. You knew you were walking into …

• First Class: X-men as a thinking action movie

  03 June 2011 It’s with this kind of framework that I say that I was thrilled by the new X-flick X-Men: First …

• Pirates 4: Captain Jack is back. Again.

  26 May 2011 I have to admit that I found the last two sequels to be, well, too much and not enough at the same…

• Fast Five: Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride

  13 May 2011 And really, that’s what you go to a flick like this for. To expect anything more would be folly.…

• Thor strikes comic-book gold

  09 May 2011 Thor features Chris Hemsworth in a star-making turn (geeks will remember him as Captain Kirk’s d…

• NBA Live 2K11: The legend of Jordan

  03 November 2010 All of these famous mannerisms were of course attempts at emulating arguably (but really, is anyon…

• Alpha Protocol: The Espionage RPG review

  21 October 2010 Apparently this sad fact did not enter into the design scheme of Alpha Protocol, The Espionage RPG…

• The Town

  08 October 2010 MacRay’s “one last heist” stance is par for the course of a heist film, as are a lot of the …

• Comedy Cartel

  04 October 2010 I understand that as art forms migrate across cultures, the adapting culture will necessarily appr…