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Long Live The New Flesh! - The Son Of Cronenberg Has Released His Debut Movie...
Antiviral (2012)Sooo... Brandon Cronenberg, son of the renowned director David Cronenberg, has made a sci-fi movie. Brandon's movie is quite clearly apeing a lot of what David Cronenberg used to do in...
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Star Trek Movie Retrospective: Part Two
The first part of my Star Trek movie retrospective can be found here. I grew up watching the Star Trek movies, but I've now made an effort to catch up with the ones I missed. I can now say that I've...
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"American Mary" Is A Wonderfully Twisted Story About Body Modification...
American Mary (2012)Katherine Isabelle started out in "Ginger Snaps", an excellent werewolf movie. Though she's consistently done tv appearances (pretty much all of which has been in shows I haven't...
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Maniac Is Beautiful, Stylish, Different... And Genuinely Feels Like A Remake...
Maniac (2012)Before we begin with the review, I absolutely have to share this awesome song from the soundtrack. It's another Drive-esque synthy song and I absolutely love it.(video link)When I first...
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Time For A Bit Of Classic Who!
There's been this thing recently where newcomers to Doctor Who are getting upset whenever the actor playing the Doctor changes and instantly complaining about the new replacement. They are also...
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More Movies From This Year Reviewed: "Welcome To The Punch" and "The Last Stand"
Welcome to the Punch (2013)A seemingly pretty well received British crime drama with a whole roster of great actors. I mean just listen to this: Mark Strong, James McAvoy, Angela Riseborough, David...
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A Horror Movie About Making A Horror Movie. Even Working On The Sound Effects...
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)Mark Kermode listed this as his joint-favourite movie of 2012 along with "A Royal Affair" (which was my personal favourite of the year at the end of 2012). As is often the...
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(video link)How many of the 170 horror movies can you guess?(Answers can be found here)
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Action Film About Hansel And Gretel Hunting Deadites With Big Effing Guns?...
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)Ahem! People of the internet, you have misinformed me!Okay, so admittedly some of you out there must have informed me correctly or I'd never have watched this...
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Star Trek Movie Retrospective: Final Part
This set of reviews is part of a series:- I introduce the series and review the first three movies here.- I review the fourth, fifth and sixth movies here.So now finally in this entry I review all the...
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American Civil War Movies Set In The Southern States Are Still Miserable When...
Exit Humanity (2011)What do you do when you want to make a film with a neat twist on the zombie genre, but you've basically got a choice between paying for quality special effects or quality actors?...
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The Second Thor Movie Is Yet Another Higher-Than-Expected-Quality Superhero...
Thor: The Dark World (2013)Okay, in short, it was great. Some were a little concerned that this would be a dark and gritty tale since, let's face it, we've come to expect our Marvel movies to be sweet...
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"Stitches" - Part Teen Drama, Part Horror Comedy - With An Evil Clown!
Stitches (2012)In a way, it's hard to explain what is wrong with Stitches. The child characters (when they grow up a bit) are endearing (though it somewhat feels like an episode of Grange Hill). The...
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Gravity Is Beautiful And Clever, But Must They Play The "Woman's Life Empty...
Gravity (2013)Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. We've all seen the trailer where the two of them are involved in some kind of massive wreck in outer space. So guess what happens to the ethnic...
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Request To The Internet: Please Stop Using The Term "Plot Holes"...
Okay, so here's a grumpy rant about a term I've been hearing over and over on movie message boards and I am fed up with it. "Plot holes" is a term where the meaning appears to be deeply unclear (at...
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Director Showcase: Lucky McKee
Director Showcase: Lucky McKeeMay (2002) - This was a really strong showcase of Angela Bettis' ability, playing a fragile socially-awkward young girl who cannot handle friends. She has a doll who her...
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Steven Soderbergh's Latest Two Movies (Both Released This Year) Are Amongst...
Side Effects (2013)So. It seems that this is Steven Soderbergh's last film. For cinemas at least. Apparently. Presuming you don't count the one I'm reviewing straight after this. Anyway, whatever.So...
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"Texas Chainsaw" Ignores Reboots And Sequels, Reminding Us That This...
Texas Chainsaw (2013)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series has been an odd one. Just a (very) quick recap on the series so far. (Don't worry, there's not much in the way of plot elements and few of the...
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My Top 10 Favourite Movies of 2008 (Plus some honourable mentions)
This is the third of my new lists charting what I now believe to be the best movies released in the UK in previous years. My others include: 2011, 2010 and 2009. My favourites from those previous three...
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A Sweet Central Relationship In "Bellflower" Is Created And Destroyed....
Bellflower (2011)Bellflower starts with some random clips of events still to come in the movie, making it very clear that something distressing for the characters is coming later in the film. But then...
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