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Most of the giant monster movies that involve a creature from the deep destroying a city are not that scary. The JJ Abrams movie "Cloverfield" manages to turn that around.

It's film 2.0 for J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves who understand the Alfred Hitchcock and Edgar Allen Poe school of fear: Imagination is king.

There is a movie that will touch your heart in theaters right now. It will reach back into your memories when you believed that fairies existed and magic was around every corner. It is called "Pan's Labyrinth." See it.

Review of the film "Cloverfield"

A review of the S. Korean monster movie The Host.

The movie has been released, but what's the monster?

Cloverfield is smashtacular arnchfest with a love story that plays a simple, but not unpleasing, love song. Sometimes a monster movie is just what you need and Cloverfield will be just what you want.

Cloverfield is more than a movie; it is an experience that will leave you completely and utterly exhausted

A movie review for Cloverfield

The best way to describe "Cloverfield" is that it is "Godzilla" meets "The Blair Witch Project." It takes the monster movie genre in a fresh new direction, and it makes it one of the more exciting movies made in that particular genre in what feels like years.

Cloverfield. J.J. Abrams take on the movie blockbuster. J.J. Abrams wrote Armageddon. How does Cloverfield match up?

"Cloverfield" the monster movie that rocked box offices, proposed as a game? How would they do it, and how would it be recieved? Read and discover!!!

Well, the news sites and the internet are buzzing after this weekends box office releases. The big news, however, is not from one a the newest movie releases, yet from a teaser trailer that ran before a movie release.

Go get moved today -by the movie you'd least expect ot move you. Cloverfield should be a faith restorer for all those looking to love quality storytelling at its most compelling.

My review of J.J. Abrams recent release. A few slight spoilers are included.

Cloverfield, the hit J.J. Abrams-produced monster movie, is a hit with audiences. Could a Cloverfield video game be in the works?

With shaky, hand-held camera footage reminiscent of "The Blair Witch Project," "Cloverfield" is a 90-minute advertisement for Pepto-Bismol

The massively hyped monster movie may have decreased buzz at the moment, since most people know everything about it now. But I went to find out for myself anyway.

Monster is a 2008 direct to video action/horror movie starring Erin Sullivan and Sarah Lynch. Erin And Sarah trapped in Tokyo as it is hit by an earthquake.

On a recent trip to Japan, producer J.J. Abrams saw a number of Godzilla toys in a toy store and realized the impact the fictional creature has on Japanese culture to this day. He then thought, "what if America had such a creature?"

Passion of the christ was a manupulative movie that intrigued minds and was also very contoversial. It was the story of Jesus Christ in a movie as established by the director and writer.

I'm not a fan of action movies, but this movie was quite good.

A movie review, social commentary and something seemingly profound wrapped into one.

A movie review and some other thoughs about Oliver Stone's World Trade Center.

A review of Ishiro Honda's Rodan.

A movie review for Spider-Man 3. The article talks about how the movie is entertaining, but at the same time has to many problems to be one of the best.

Quick movie review of Lady In The Water. Why should you watch it? What sucked?

Movie review of Will Smith's new movie called Hancock. Also starts Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman

Charlotte's Web, the movie, is an adaptation of the classic book by E. B. White. A little girl rescues a runt pig, who befriends a spider named Charlotte.

Even viewers with a high tolerance for slow movies will find "Stranger Then Fiction" movie painful. Despite having a mostly excellent cast the movie falls flat on it's face.

The movie that tells us what happens when you take the characters from The Office, send them on a team building holiday and throw in some eastern European serial killers.

For a brief time newsstands actually stocked a mature, well-written contemporary monster movie magazine geared towards thinking adults (though you'd never know it from the title): CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

Contrary to what people say, I believe this is a wonderful movie. Full of action, magic and great characters.

6-6-06 the billboards around your town read, anticipating the release of the 20th Century Fox movie "The Omen". Prophetic revelations of evil events occurring in the future have been with humankind ever since the onset of consciousness of time.

I am one of the few people who has not read this book. I think that helped me enjoy this movie all the more.

Action, dark comedy, and engaging thriller, Two hands is a fresh movie with a fresh twist and worth watching.

A Korean film with subtitles, "The Host" gives hope to the big creature genre.

A smorgasbord of emotion, Bong Jo-ho's monster movie The Host, is a tragic-comic thriller that tugs from every angle. Its Korean title is translated as The Creature, but in the end it is simply a monster, one both viscerally thrilling and symbolically invigorating.

What is it about giant monster movies that makes us laugh?

Review of 2008 film "Cloverfield".

I've always regarded The Gillman as my favorite Universal monster. The only ghoul to imperil his ascendancy has been...

Can there be a movie trailer that is so good that no matter what the final product is it cannot live up to the hype? Cloverfield may be a case of just that.

This is a very strange movie. However, by that fact alone I think it's worth seeing.

Furniture Detective Matt Credenza's first foray onto the silver screen is a treat for fans of Master Carpenter Norm Abrams and PBS junkies in general.

A personal review of the box office smash Cloverfield

You don't need to go trick-or-treating to have a great Halloween. All you need is a DVD player.

It's just four middle-aged dads desperately trying to stay in the lucrative business of being cool.

An analytical review of Walter Dean Myer's critically acclaimed young adult novel "Monster." A look at race and racism and the incarceration of young African American males in the United States.

While the movie Monster In Law enjoys box office success, its co-star Jane Fonda is still paying for her anti-U.S photo op with veit-kong soldiers in 1972.

I don't know about seeing Monster House in the standard 2 dimensional format. But I'll prove to you that you can't miss Monster House in 3-D.

At the request of my grandson, Rashad, I spent a very hot Saturday afternoon viewing Monster House (2006), the latest beautifully animated project of executive producers Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg.

Review of the 2006 Children's Horror, Monster House.

Another of this season's computer generated films is "Monster House." Critics are split on this movie. Those who loved it, really loved it. Those who hated, it really hated it.

As a movie critic for more than five years, I've studied Hollywood's horror and monster films. This article outlines five of the baddest and poses the question: Who is the baddest of them all?

So many crappy monster movies to make. So little time. Here, I discuss the Sci-Fi channel's compulsion to make as many monster movies (especially ones about Snakes) as they possibly can. Sometimes bizarrely entertaining.

Jealousy is a wasted, ugly emotion that can rob you of health and happiness. A new attitude and building self-esteem can help you rid your life of this monster.

Many don't believe in the Loch Ness Monster, but a Loch Ness baby was found washed up on shore.

Often, I'm interrested that the filmmaker was trying to do his best with no budget to make the moivie work for an audience...even if it meant putting a bubble-machine next to the lens when Robot Monster appeared onscreen.

This is a indeed a movie spoiler on the new film Cloverfield. Do NOT read this unless you would like to know everything that happens in this movie. If you would like to know, read on...

Haven't seen the Cloverfield movie trailer yet? You will.

Looking across the most popular search terms one has to notice any search about the upcoming movie Cloverfield is laden with spoilers. Why do we want to know?

J.J. Abrams, the writer and producer of Cloverfield, Star Trek, and even more, will be gaining recognition as 2009 progresses.

Cloverfield is an interesting movie for a lot of people, but if you can't read in the car, you might as well wait for the DVD.

Like the Jersey Devil, the legendary Toilet Monster terrorized outhouses all throughout Ocean County.

Every culture has its mythos, and every culture has at least one monster story. This one is from the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota.

Freak Show's author, James St. James, is an expert on challenging established ideas. The author of Disco Bloodbath, later made into the movie Party Monster, was a New York celebutante who rose to fame as one of the original Club Kids.

The film directed by Matt Reeves was shot in a home video camcorder style was shot in a home video camcorder style. One would probably not expect for the entire film to be shot in the manner.

The movie is rated PG. But, it's advertising market seems to be for those under 12. The animation (lighting, shadows, 3-dimensionality) is quite something. But, if you are with a child under ten, you spend more time checking if they are hiding.

Cloverfield will make you appreciate the creative wonder that it is or you'll hate it for the shaky shaker that it is.

Now that Cloverfield has been released on DVD is it a cornerstore pickup or a bargain basket miss? This review will answer this question and reveal some of the tricks used by the Director to make this more than a typical "Godzilla" franchise movie.

Check out this new animated feature from Steven Speilberg and Robert Zemeckkis.

What could have been a delicious dark comedy turned into a rather dry and bland romantic comedy with seemingly nowhere to go.

After waiting up to watch the midnight premiere of the long-anticipated Cloverfield, I left for home with more yawns than yelps.

Dare I say that this is the most famous giant-octopus movie ever made?

The new movie from J. J. Abrams exemplifies viral marketing. Learn what is known about Cloverfield and look at what may be in store on opening weekend.

Pros
clever action sequences

Cons
They had to blow up such a nice car.

The Bottom Line
Its a solid action movie

Although JJ Abrams originally created Lost, it is producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse who run things on the island now. This describes their path and journey before their big break.

A brief interview with Trek legend turned Heroes star, George Takei, where he describes his recent work and thoughts on the take-over of the Star Trek franchise by Lost and Alias creator JJ Abrams

"Do we have to rip the band-aid off of our wounded post 9/11 psyches to get through Cloverfield?"

This is a movie that the critics seem to be going crazy for and it has an astonishing 95% at Rotten Tomatoes. It's the kind of movie critics love. Will the average movie-goer actually want to see this movie?

Cloverfield attempted to re-energize the Godzilla monster movie genre. Too bad it was already beaten by the Korean film The Host. Korean films are consistently among the most innovative and creative movies being made today.

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It seems like a great idea: a post-9/11 disaster flick with aliens. Unfortunately, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield begins like an episode of The Hills and looks like the cinematography was done by Britney Spears a la her homemade reality show Chaotic.

A few simple rules can help you write a blockbuster movie script and hit the jackpot.

J.J. Abrams is really the anti-Spielberg in a lot of ways. Perhaps he's showing us that our planet likely, in reality, has profoundly and spiritually evil dark sides we may have to encounter face to face someday before it gets better...

The internet is a buzz with speculation about the trailer in from of Transformers

The ABC hit lost is an intricately plotted drama. Missing one episode can lead to confusion. If you've skipped an episode, check out an episode guide to catch up.

Is the island on Lost supposed to be Purgatory, or is that just a coincidence?

It's been 20 years since Patrick Stewart took on the role of Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here's a look how it all started back in 1987.

Patton Oswalt has starred in "King of Queens" for nine seasons. As he says so long to Spence, he faces the future as a rat - in Disney's "Ratatouille." Here he talks comedians playing nice, the now infamous Joe Rogan/Carlos Mencia feud and more.

A look at upcoming movies in production.

While the previous two Mission Impossible movies were fun, this third one just doesn't seem tha tmuch fun despite everyone trying so hard.

The sci-fi hit Star Trek is to return to a movie theatre near by Christmas Day 2008. This will be the eleventh installment of the oh so popular space adventure.

A collection of the upcoming summer box office smashes with release dates and links to the trailers on the internet.

Superstar martial arts legend Bruce Lee will be "recreated" in digital form for a big screen feature directed by Rob Cohen.

The Locke-centric episode is eager to give us even more questions to wonder about the world of Lost.

The heart-pounding suspense of ABC's Lost brings about a whole new season of suspense and draws you into each character's history even further than season one.

Find out what movies are coming out after New Years.

A Man Eating Cow Aspires to One Day Win A Saturn Award

A review of J.J Abrams, film Cloverfield.