Archive for Release Year: 2008
22 posts from 05 February 2023 to 11 June 2017.
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The Thick of It meets Kevin Spacey headdesking repeatedly.
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US frames innocent muslim for terrorist attack, is all for nought
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Not-adaptation cash grab for 3D
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Light drama meets tourism postcard with murders.
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Still four kids, but with extra large scale battles with hundreds of dead.
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Unspeakable horror. Almost literally, the 3 bad guys have less than 3 lines in total.
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Goddamn fantastic cast doing jack shit to elevate this to beyond young adult fantasy for kids. Teens saving their world, that turns out to be a Fallout Vault with more incompetent people. Martin Landau and Bill Murray have a lot of fun chewing the scenery.
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Similar to Bronson, but focused on IRA prisoners.
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Back to thin plots layered on copious amounts of action scenes.
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A bog standard thriller with the requisite twist and counter twist towards the end.
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Analyse This retrograde script. Old and busted ideas dressed up in fine leather and CGI.
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A fine drama, buried beneath mountains of makeup and special effects. It’s really just technical muscle flexing.
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The Cliff’s Notes version. Über-depressing, almost makes you weep for idle rich aristocrats.
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This is the worst episode of The Twilight Zone (the killer plants), upgraded to a watchable infection-based horror film. A nice first outing.
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Heil Teacher! The simplifier in chief. Group dynamics do most of the work, it only needs a small push.
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Pre-Snowden, pre-January 6 insurrection techno thriller. It’s a very competent cast with a silly script. Baby’s first Enemy of the State, Fun!
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Fucking Bruges. Interplay of bizarre humour and gruesome violence.
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What’s this, I don’t even… That cold opening sets the tone, but it gets progressively weirder and weirder. Goes to very dark places, but never raises above voyeurism and gratuitous shock value.
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An industrial small scale version of Mad Max: Fury Road. Sure, there’s a plot in here somewhere, but it’s all about stuff blowing up.
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A remake of a Pang brothers film, that’s something that you don’t see every day. Jessica Alba is a sight for sore eyes, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Rachel Ticotin still has that Total Recall vibe.
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Like Escape from New York and Mad Max 2 had a baby, and that baby got shot in the eye, turning into a female cyborg Plisken, working undercover for the opposition government faction. So much exploding body parts…
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Oh, what a lovely day. I’m expected in film Valhalla.