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, 25 May 2012 10:03
Offering a little slice of horror to start off the summer, writer/producer Oren Peli (the brain behind Paranormal Activity) revisits the found footage phenomenon and presents us with a collection of nasty-looking nuclear mutants on a European vacation. Many audience ...
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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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Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:03
Since its publication in 1984, Heidi Merkoff’s best-selling pregnancy and parenting book series What to Expect When You’re Expecting has provided normal, everyday expectant parents with a witty, honest, and delightfully entertaining assessment of ...
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Sunday, 22 January 2012 10:03
Opening with a three-minute reminder of where we’ve been with the previous installments, Underworld Awakening, rather surprisingly, soon ditches its celebrated mythology of werewolf vs. vampire and lets the human beings weigh in on the bloody war ...
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Saturday, 19 May 2012 13:43
Big. Loud. Dumb. Mr. Berg, you sank my battleship. While audiences were lucky to get a smartly-balanced flick in Joss Whedon’s The Avengers to kick start the summer, Peter Berg’s floating nightmare, Battleship, reminds audiences that not every ...
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Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:54
Warning: the following release is intended for Grindhouse aficionados and trash trailer lovers only!!! Proving itself to be a bit of a history lesson in trash cinema, 42nd Street is an exploitation lover’s wet dream: almost four hours of nothing but badass trailers ...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 11:44
No, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has not flipped his lid. The real-life pranks and antics he scored big laughs with in Borat and Bruno have been replaced with actors, but the dark and scathing commentary still underscores his latest, The Dictator. Cohen still ...
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 21:13
The fine art of deconstruction has a name and it is Haywire. Director Steven Soderbergh has found himself a brand new muse. Mixed Martial Arts champion, Gina Carano steps out of the ring and in front of his camera for Haywire, a revenge-driven action movie ...
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 15:12
Filipino filmmaker Yam Laranas stands poised to make some significant noise in the world of filmmaking. His low budget The Road is the perfect example of a filmmaker whose talents have outstretched his available budgetary means. Though the film ...
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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 11:42
Is there a more influential 15 minutes in film history? Famed director Martin Scorsese – who featured the celebrated Georges Melies and his film in his award-winning Hugo – doesn’t think so. You shouldn’t either. In what goes down as the most important blu-ray ...
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 20:45
Once again, director Tim Burton gets the quirk right and, once again, he’s come under fire for doing what he does so well: recapturing the world as he sees it with the camera. Regardless of your feelings for Burton and Depp ...
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