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Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:15
Loron Hays
Saying goodbye is a hard thing to do. Given that most television dramas overstay their welcome and most science fiction shows never get the chance to say hello, the fifth and final season of Fringe is one lucky dog. Fox essentially allowed this show - with a cut ...
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Friday, 14 December 2012 23:59
Frank Wilkins
From the pages of bestselling author Lee Childs’ novels, comes a new movie hero. His name is Jack Reacher, and while he doesn’t fly, wear tights, or posses any otherworldy super-human powers, his goals are the same as those sought by our lycra-tighted friends currently ...
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Friday, 04 January 2013 15:07
Loron Hays
While it certainly isn’t high art and, at times, as awful as you expect it to be from the wrong-headed trailers, Texas Chainsaw 3D – being billed as the direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original (and the only in a long line of sequels to claim as such) – isn’t, much ...
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Tuesday, 14 May 2013 09:14
Loron Hays
Academy Award-winning filmmaker (turned producer here) Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) teams up with past and present members of the Eagles and produces a pretty solid documentary charting the band’s history. Since ...
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Monday, 13 May 2013 09:38
Loron Hays
Produced by Guillermo Del Toro, Andy Muschietti’s Mama is not unlike an atmospheric fairy tale. It’s focused on a pair of orphaned siblings left to fend for themselves for five years. They aren’t alone, though. The spindly figure in the billowing in the deep shadows is ...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012 15:01
Loron Hays
If this is the future of filmmaking, count me out. I hate to say it, folks. It seems that writer/director Peter Jackson might have gone the way of Star Wars guru George Lucas. In look, in tone, in spirit, and in adventure Jackson's long awaited and eagerly anticipated ...
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Saturday, 11 May 2013 14:40
Loron Hays
Writer/director Shane Carruth is one bold son of a bitch. Upstream Color is proof of that. He is also the thinking man’s filmmaker and delivers, four years after Primer - his stunning debut - a follow-up that is equally disturbing. His visuals are poem-like ...
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Monday, 06 May 2013 11:45
Loron Hays
Romantic comedies don’t get more manipulative than writer/director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook. They typically can’t get any more damaged either. Centered rather seriously upon mental illness, Russell constructs a fragile film built upon instability ...
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Friday, 03 May 2013 11:10
Loron Hays
I’ll be blunt. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, both as a film and a Star Trek entry, is not very good. It isn’t completely without joy (it’s the few chuckles that save this from being a complete downer) but the older the film gets the harder it becomes to defend its ...
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 11:53
Loron Hays
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Robert Wise’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Many critics and fans have dismissed it because, to them, it’s …ehem… boring. Okay, sure, soap operatic Star Wars it isn’t but the film – to its credit – is a most successful leap ...
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Wednesday, 09 January 2013 11:55
Loron Hays

With a rat-a-tat throwback style that echoes the gangster films of yesteryear and a fedora-wearing swagger that suggests dark alleys and women with dangerous curves, director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less) brings audiences back to the ...
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Thursday, 27 December 2012 14:38
Tim Sentz
For the last week we’ve spent three individual articles exploring the history of Quentin Tarantino - his highs and lows, his techniques, trademarks - and now we explore his most recent film to be released - Django Unchained. He continues his quest to rewrite the ...
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 11:49
Loron Hays
Writer/director Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell) gets the deluxe treatment with Criterion’s release of the now-classic Repo Man. The film – as absurd as it is – has its own cult legacy that will have its followers (and newcomers, I imagine) knocking over ...
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:24
Loron Hays
Texas writer/director/actor Larry Wade Carrell comes bucking out of the gate with a modest but forgettable full-length horror debut. While murky with a convoluted storyline that includes strange townspeople, warring brothers and a slightly haunted house ...
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Monday, 15 April 2013 10:03
Loron Hays
Welcome back to the Interzone. This is not a place for those unfamiliar with the lasting effects of strong narcotics and paranoia. It is a place for the sad and lonely or quite possibly the sad junkie walking around wounded in an uncaring world. He strolls ...
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Friday, 12 April 2013 21:37
Christopher Symonds
Robert Zemeckis could never be accused of resting on laurels or past successes. Despite Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future being two of the 80s’ most successful offerings, Zemeckis wanted to push the boundaries of filmmaking and homage a couple ...
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Thursday, 11 April 2013 09:58
Loron Hays
Imagine if Freddy Krueger took the night off from his familiar Elm Street haunts and called in a favor to his good friend Stitches the Clown to get some revenge killing done. Stitches is that movie. Comedic and imaginative with its scares and death scenes, Stitches is ...
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Monday, 08 April 2013 11:05
Loron Hays
Sometimes stark naked ambition alone can create a lasting legacy. Morris Engel’s Little Fugitive is all the proof you need. It’s not much to look at but its visual poetry has an unmatched beauty. It’s the tiny cub that roars. Scrappily shot in black-and-white with ...
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