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Friday, 10 February 2012 08:22
Christopher Symonds
Twenty years after the days of Captain Kirk, Bones, and Mr Spock, Gene Roddenberry was invited by Paramount to create a new Star Trek show; something to which he had little interest in doing. His original cast were finding success on the big screen; he had been ousted from creative control ...
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 13:37
Christopher Symonds
Take an ‘it’ director, hot off the heels of a major franchise success, and high concept idea with a punchy title (Cowboys Versus Aliens! Magic!) that promises a new hybrid of a film, an epic cast with a respected leading man, a Hollywood legend, and a supporting ...
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Monday, 06 February 2012 14:23
Christopher Symonds
Supposedly, this remake was targeted as a fun film for a horny 17 year old boy to kick back and enjoy; a down and dirty exploitation horror flick that unabashedly panders to the wants of that particular market. I have news for the makers of this film ...
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Monday, 06 February 2012 13:55
Christopher Symonds
As a ravenous consumer of all things horror, I have seen the frightening, I have seen the exhilarating, I have seen the okay, the passable, and even the so bad its good; and every now and then I have seen the crap, the detestable, the waste of time and money ...
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 13:28
Loron Hays
Released in 1955, Disney’s Lady and the Tramp was the first ever animated feature to be geared for the true CinemaScope experience. It was also the first to be told specifically from a canine’s point of view. It’s all legs and feet all of the time; a dog’s eye view ...
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Saturday, 29 October 2011 16:34
Frank Wilkins
In Andrew Niccol’s In Time, we learn of an alternate reality in the near future, where time really is money… or more specifically, currency. Everyone is born with a body clock embedded in the wrist which is activated when the frontal lobe of the brain ...
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Friday, 16 September 2011 12:20
Loron Hays
Genre-hopping shifts into high gear with director Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive. The style switch-up is as violently guttural as a Sam Peckinpah flick and as steely-eyed as Jean-Pierre Melville’s handling of exaggerated exchanges, and yet, ...
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 21:59
Loron Hays
Really good horror is hard to pull off. It takes restraint, attention to story, and a deft director to handle the many, many mechanics of strong atmosphere. Director Lucky McKee, behind the camera for The Woman, does exactly that and produces one of the ...
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Saturday, 22 October 2011 16:04
Loron Hays
Boo! Paramount is at it again; third straight year and third straight sequel to their and America’s seemingly favorite paranormal phenomenon. While the creep factor is still solidly in place for the patient viewer, the answers provided by Paranormal Activity 3 to the ...
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Sunday, 29 January 2012 10:51
Loron Hays
At a whopping 85 years of age and with not a single stand of visible gray hair, Wings, directed by William Wellman, is a marvel of the film industry. Of course you know its history as the first Academy Award winner for Best Picture. That was in 1927. We all do ...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:12
Loron Hays
What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a dude in a monster suit? Hint: the action takes place in Japan. That’s right. Godzilla, the mother of all mega-monster movies, is returning to run rampage through your home entertainment ...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:05
Loron Hays
Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, does more to address the complex topic of illegal drugs in and out of this country than the actual “war” on drugs does. Considering the largely naïve and inadequate government policies since ...
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Friday, 07 October 2011 00:00
Loron Hays
There are a million reasons to list explaining why Real Steel shouldn’t work. Much will be made of the obvious comparisons between Over the Top and its many Rocky punching bag beats. So much so, the consensus will be that Stallone should ...
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Saturday, 08 October 2011 15:45
Frank Wilkins
There’s an early scene in The Ides of March in which Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling), the press spokesman for a Democratic presidential candidate confidently exclaims, “nothing bad happens when you’re doing the right ...
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Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:49
Frank Wilkins
With the brute force of a fastball and the finesse of a well-aimed curve, Moneyball pops the leather with a triumphant true story about finding worth in uncommon places. That uncommon place in ...
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Wednesday, 21 September 2011 07:37
Loron Hays
Based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ novel The Feather Men, Killer Elite brazens across the screen with three leading men- Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro - in one action-packed movie. Unfortunately, it doesn’t ...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 09:05
Loron Hays
Producer/Writer/Director and genuine gothic genius Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) continues to flirt with the idea of man and monster cohabitation in his latest production. Reducing the size of the monster to something no bigger than a ...
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Thursday, 08 September 2011 14:24
Loron Hays
Getting sick is never very much fun. In Steven Soderbergh’s tightly-wound Contagion, getting sick is supremely gross, a wide-spread epidemic, and a matter of life-and-death. You can refer to it as the great equalizer as none are spared ...
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