X-Men Origins: Wolverine: A Movie Review 

By John David Ebert  

There is a scene in this movie that occurs early on which shows how Wolverine derived his enormous physical strength. He was part of a government experiment that involved injecting his bones with an indestructible metal called “adamantean.” We watch as Wolverine descends into a tank full of water and a series of needles inject his body at various points with a liquid form of this metal which coats all his bones, effectively transubstantiating their calcium into a mythical metal that is indestructible. Read the rest of this entry »

Terminator Salvation: A Movie Review

by John David Ebert

When James Cameron’s film The Terminator came out in 1984, the idea of machines becoming sentient and eliminating human beings from the world may have seemed far-fetched, a mere science fiction premise for an entertaining 80s drive-in movie. (Yes, drive-ins still existed in the 80s). But now, 25 years later, with the fourth Terminator film having just been released, the idea is not only no longer far-fetched, but it has in fact become a reality.

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Star Trek: A Movie Review

By John Lobell 

The new Star Trek movie is so highly satisfying because it introduces a richness of back-story into a franchise we know so well, and because it adds a mythological depth. This depth does not approach that of Star Wars, but it is there. And since we now have time travel (the young Spock meets the old Spock, played by Leonard Nemoy), we may even get to see the development of a mythological relationship between James Kirk and his father. Read the rest of this entry »