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Halloween Franchise Review Series - Part 9: Halloween (2007)
Trigger Warning: There is a r*pe in the director's cut of this film. I won't be going into too much detail on it. Just enough to question its inclusion.Halloween (2007)Rob Zombie, of "House of a...
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Okay, So Someone Finally Convinced Me...
So I've finally joined Letterboxd. I've got the same old username over there, still fatpie42.Check it out here:http://letterboxd.com/fatpie42/For anyone not yet aware, it's like Goodreads only for...
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Upstream Colour Has No Real People In It... But It DOES Have Psychic Pigs
Upstream Colour (2013)Soooo... this was this director's first movie since "Primer" and also Gabe Toro's movie of the year. Look Gabe, I think you are a fantastic reviewer and 300 times the writer I'll...
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What I'm Listening To....
Lynn Carey - All TalkThe whole Radioactive Dreams soundtrack is brilliant. It's a bizarre little film about two lads who have grown up in a bunker sheltering them from a nuclear apocalypse and finally...
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"Captain Phillips" Is Far Less Moving Or Exciting Than The OTHER Somali...
Captain Phillips (2013)Last year, one of my favourite movies was the Danish film "A Hijacking" about a company man negotiating with Somali pirates for a ship and its crew. It was a compelling drama...
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Halloween Franchise Review Series - Part 10: Halloween II (2009)
Halloween II (2009)I went into this dreading the worst. Rob Zombie's sequel was not well-received and, having not been terribly keen on Zombie's initial entry in the series, I hated to think what his...
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Reviewed Here! Ben Wheatley's Horror-Comedy "Sightseers" + The Attempt at a...
Sightseers (2012)My main focus when deciding whether to watch a movie or not is the director. Here the director is Ben Wheatley. Before this the only thing I'd seen from Wheatley was "Kill List" a...
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The John Hughes Directorial Retrospective: Part One
Anyone remember ages back when I suggested I might do a John Hughes retrospective? Well I've been working my way through the movies he directed.I've come to realise with this sort of thing that it's a...
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Why Noah Might Be Both The Best Film And The Biggest Flop Of 2014
Considering Aronofsky's Noah Film1. The Ridiculous Bible StoryNoah has long been a bit of a punching bag when it comes to criticising religion. Certainly when Christians are deciding which stories to...
View ArticleToo Good To Be True! Are These Trailers Promising Or Misleading?
Saw some trailers recently that look really cool. Is it because someone is good at editing or is it because the movies are actually going to be good? Hmmm....The Protector 2Well let's start with the...
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"In Fear" Is An Example Of Rural Horror With A Long Slow Build Of Tension...
In Fear (2013)It's interesting that the "Agents of Shield" series, which was set off to be a vehicle for background character, seems to have two background characters who out-do everyone else in the...
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Very Confused About "The Conjuring"....
Is this supposed to be a horror comedy?I'm over half way through the movie and every now and then something happens that has me in fits of hysterics. Yet overall this seems to take itself really...
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We Need To Talk About "The Possession".... Seriously What Is Up With This Movie?
The Possession (2012)So, another ghost story.... Well, demon story. Same sort of thing.Put forward around the place as a Jewish version of The Exorcist, the film talks about a Hassidic evil spirit...
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Why Do Exorcism Movies Make Me Laugh?
Hey everyone!Anyone have any opinion on "The Conjuring"? (I made a post about my initial thoughts here. Review on the way.)I've been meaning to rewatch "The Exorcist" for a while now, but the last time...
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"The Winter Soldier" Does A Little Bit Of Retconning And Presents Visceral...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)Doesn't everyone know that there's always an after credits sequence at the end of Marvel Studios movies by now? Everyone left the screening room, the lights...
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Newsflash: Ricky Gervais Is Actually Genuinely A Complete Arsehole...
Okay okay, so perhaps it should have been obvious.Still, I've always taken it as read that when Ricky Gervais is acting like a mean obnoxious bully it is actually all an act. After all, he often plays...
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Noah Has Adaptation Issues When Bringing The Inventive And Allegorical...
Noah (2014)I've loved every single film Darren Aronofsky has ever made, so naturally I was extremely excited to see Aronofsky's sixth film. The decision to make a big budget movie about Noah seemed...
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Noah: Spoiler Post! - Comparing The Movie And The Graphic Novel
The figure above is Tubal-Cain, the villain played brilliantly by Ray Winstone in the "Noah" movie.There were a few important differences between the Noah movie and the excellent graphic novel. One...
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"The Conjuring" Is Hilariously Bad...
The Conjuring (2013)My reaction to "The Conjuring" was pretty predictable. I hate most ghost movies (a notable exception being Ti West's "The Innkeepers") and I dislike movies filled with jump scares...
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