Charles Webb
Seattle, Washington

Charles is a Florida-born, Washington State-based writer. He abandoned a perfectly good start at a psychiatric career to write for and about the video game industry. Besides having very strong opinions about the Blade franchise and Auntie Mame, Charles also contributes regularly at MTV Geek and MTV Multiplayer.

RESIDENT EVIL RETRIBUTION Breaks The Series' Continuity. So What?
Over at game blog Destructoid, Hamza CTZ Aziz laments that the based on the trailer for the latest entry in the series, filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson has all but upended and invalidated the stories of the previous films using the... More »
  

Contest: Win a JOHN CARTER Blu-ray Prize Pack
Director Andrew Stanton's John Carter is a fun action adventure movie that really should have gotten more love than it did during it's theatrical release. Well, if you're one of those people who really dug the movie or even if... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: JOHN CARTER Is a Superman of Mars
Amidst all of the hand-wringing about the lackluster to poor theatrical performance of Andrew Stanton's John Carter as well as the doom and gloom about the future prospects of its lead Taylor Kitsch, it seems like some people miss the... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE Is My Kind of Bad
Let's start by allowing me to clarify that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is not a good movie. That having been said, this sequel from the Crank writing and directing team of Neveldine and Taylor is wildly enjoyable because it... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: Shaky Cam Mayhem in Joburg With SAFE HOUSE
The CIA thriller Safe House uses a lot of sleight-of-hand in the attempt to create the illusion that there's more movie there than is actually, you know, there. Denzel Washington is along to lend the necessary gravitas to this story... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: The Ghost In THE WOMAN IN BLACK is Kind of a Jerk
If only the isolated village where James Watkins' The Woman In Black is set simply took the time to put up warnings in front of the imposing manor where the titular vengeful spirit dwells, things might have worked out better... More »
  

Contest: Win a Blu-Ray/DVD Combo of Joe Carnahan's THE GREY
Although Joe Carnahan's latest doesn't live up to the marketing hype of Liam Neeson in wild-man action mode, The Grey is a surprisingly effective drama wrapped inside of a tense survival thriller. Here's the official synopsis: Liam Neeson (Schindler's List,... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE GREY Is Surprisingly Light On Wolf Punching
The characters stranded with Liam Neeson among the wilds of mountainous, snowy Alaska are a motley crew of criminals, the lost, and the broken whose choices in life have led them to the very the end of the continent, and... More »
  

Contest: Win one of Two DVD Copies of McG's THIS MEANS WAR
We've got two DVD copies of McG's action romantic comedy This Means War to give away to a couple of our loyal Facebook followers. Details about the giveaway at the bottom of this post. First up, here's the official synopsis... More »
  

Contest: Win A Copy of CHRONICLE On DVD
We've got two DVD copies of the found footage superhero movie Chronicle up for grabs from Twentieth Century Fox. First, here are the details on the movie: Take an extraordinary journey with three teens who uncover a power greater than... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: MEN IN BLACK & MEN IN BLACK II
With Men In Black III on the horizon this summer, Sony has re-released the first film on Blu, while giving its 2002 sequel its first outing in the format. We're far enough away from both films (15 years and 10... More »
  

Contest: Win One of Three LET THE BULLETS FLY Blu-rays

We've got three copies of Let the Bullets Fly courtesy of Well Go on Blu-ray up for grabs and all you have to do is shoot off an e-mail. First, here's the official synopsis:In the lawless land that is rural... More »
  

Contest: Win One of Five CONTRABAND Blu-Rays

The Mark Walhberg smuggling flick Contraband is hitting home video this week and we've got five copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. Co-starring Ben Foster (3:10 To Yuma), Kate Beckinsdale (Underworld), and Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar),... More »
  

Feature: CONTRABAND and "Last Job" Movies
The Mark Walhberg smuggling flick Contraband is hitting home video this week and we've got five copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. Co-starring Ben Foster (3:10 To Yuma), Kate Beckinsdale (Underworld), and Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar),... More »
  

Have Your Say: Did You Hate CABIN IN THE WOODS? Me Too! [Spoilers Abound]
Please note that the following post and ensuing comments will spoil Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods. Please read on at your own peril. It's not a new reaction for me--for any of us genre fans,... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: SHAME, Fassbender, and Addiction Personified

Shame is a movie whose trajectory I figured I knew about a third of the way in, that started to surprise me in its last act, and whose final scene, while ambiguous has too much of the feel of those... More »
  

Interview: Writer-Director Mike Pappa Talks About His Time Travel Short, FRANKIE

A couple of months back, I brought you information about the short Frankie. Written and directed by artist, animator, and game developer Mike Pappa, the short is making the rounds at film fests and the like. Full disclosure: Mike and... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE KILLING - SEASON ONE and Audience Trust

[Update, in the original post I referred to the series upon which The Killing is based as Swedish, when it is in fact, Danish]"Who killed Rosie Larsen" is the question that is ostensibly at the heart of the first season... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011), Different Language, Same Noise
After The Girl Who Played With Fire, I'd decided that I was effectively done with super hacker/kickboxer/possible autistic Lisbeth Salander. There was no going back: the character felt too much like a cartoon, a multi-purpose tool to plug into a... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: Charles Falls For THE MUPPETS' Effortless Charm

You know what? "Effortless" is actually an inappropriate term here. The Muppets, the first film in the new millennium from that beloved felt franchise, made its return last year through a media blitz. There was a span of weeks there... More »
  
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