Monday, May 31st, 2010
A Christ-like fool of few words wanders around Mexico having surreal adventures before ascending into a tower to find a wise alchemist who becomes his guide on a journey to the titular mountain. Is it a Christian allegory? Is it a celebration of hippy mystical excess? Was it made in ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
World War IV blasted the surface of the Earth to a barren wasteland across which roving bands of scabby bandits compete for sparse food supplies. Vic (Don Johnson!) is a young man who has teamed up with a telepathic dog to survive - Vic finds food for them both while ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Mr. Fox was a world class chicken thief but gave it all up years ago for a quiet middle-class existence when his child was born. He still yearns for some old-time larceny and naturally jumps at the chance for one last big score. Things do not go entirely to plan ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Following up on the epic 10 minute rap summary of Robocop, the same team has released Aliens:
open at youtube.com
Watching this reminds me what a great film Aliens turned out to be and how Avatar (by the same director) pales in comparison. It's not that Avatar was terrible but nobody ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
James Cameron has always been an interesting film maker. Although on one level most of his films could be classified as pulpy genre-related fare, they usually have a more interesting subtext lurking below the explosions. Previous Cameron films have investigated such themes as mother/daughter relationships, humanity's fear of the unknown, ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
I own all of the Star Wars DVDs except for one - The Phantom Menace. Even the weakest of the others have a certain charm, but TPM was stupid through and through. Even the title is stupid! I have yet to work out exactly what the titular menace actually was. ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
The New Zealand Film Festival is on at the moment, giving us all the chance to see exciting, stimulating cinema from around the world; and also this film.
Paper Solder is a Russian production set in the weeks before the launch of Yuri Gagarin's famous day trip. The story focuses on ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
I just joined Fatso - it seems like an OK deal if you like to watch DVDs. Their library includes a lot of TV shows and old movies, and they have a great feature where they send the DVDs in a TV series in sequence so you never get stuck ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Once again Hollywood dredges up the corpse of a much-loved TV show to desecrate with a pointless remake that misses the whole point of wha....Hey wait a minute! My brain just typed that automatically. Even now I have trouble gathering my wits to write the truth, so shocking and unbelievable ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Today has thrown up some examples of what strange, dark times we live in.
Firstly the trailer for the live-action version of Where the Wild Things Are is released and turns out not to be a monumental travesty.
Then John Banks is quoted in the Herald saying something that I ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Watchmen is a difficult movie to categorize. As an adaption of an existing work, it is excellent. The attention to detail is amazing, the cast all fit well with their characters and an impressive amount of the plot is exactly the same. A for effort.
As a stand-alone work, Watchmen is ...
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I mentioned this picture once before, but I thought it deserved another outing. The reasons are clear:
It contains Robocop
It contain Richard Nixon
It contains Richard Nixon meeting Robocop
Richard Nixon looks amazingly happy
Robocop looks a little perturbed
The logo behind them is for The Boy Scouts of AmericaBoys Clubs of America
While you are ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Jaws was a pretty cool movie but I think we can all agree that the theme tune really needed lyrics. Luckily one man stepped up to the challenge:
The same guy has done a whole bunch more:
Batman
Superman
Back to the Future
Indiana Jones
James Bond
Halloween (particularly good)
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Cloverfield is really the kind of film you should see without knowing anything about it. I'll try not to give too much away in this review, but I will write about certain aspects of the film that you may not wish to read right now. All I will say in ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Herbert West has a problem. The world just doesn't appreciate his genius, so much so that he has been rotting in jail after his previous experiments into reanimating dead flesh got a little out of hand. But now thanks to a new prison doctor with an agenda of his own, ...
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