Friday, 10 February 2012 08:22
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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Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:48
Safe House, directed by Daniel Espinosa, is exactly the formula you expect it to be. Action meets Thriller meets Spy vs. Spy. Unfortunately, Safe House plays it a bit too safe and, in spite of its engaging cast, is completely forgettable. If you’ve seen one spy-type thriller, then ...
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Thursday, 09 February 2012 13:37
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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Saturday, 11 February 2012 16:22
Ripped from the headlines of the Los Angeles Police Department’s late-1990’s corruption investigation known as the Rampart Scandal, brilliant noir writer James Ellroy’s story of Rampart narrows its focus down to Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), a crooked L.A. street cop who takes the ...
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Monday, 06 February 2012 14:23
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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Saturday, 04 February 2012 17:22
With the release of The Woman in Black, director James Watkins addresses three particularly hot topics that have been searing the brainpans of we movie fans of late. First, will the film aid the re-launch of Hammer Film Productions, which had its heyday ...
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Monday, 06 February 2012 13:55
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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Friday, 03 February 2012 08:40
When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 13:28
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
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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Sunday, 29 January 2012 11:31
The Grey is a survivalist’s Holy Bible. It looks unassuming and, chances are, you’ll roll in to it not expecting much, but – lo and behold – hell hath no fury like humans and their will to live. It’s a tight story without an inch of flab and, with strong ...
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Friday, 16 September 2011 12:20
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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