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"Jugface" Is An Awesome Little Horror About Ordinary Life Within A Rural...
While the UK title, “The Pit”, might make clearer what the film is about, “Jugface” is a much cooler title.This is the simple story of an ordinary girl who lives in a small rural community where they...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Two 29-26
29. Black Lightning (Charnaya Molniya) (2009)Kind of a rip-off of both Iron Man and Spider-Man combined, but I genuinely found myself touched. Also the battling flying cars concept is super-cool. The...
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Oculus Has A Seriously Overly Powerful Villain, But It Also Has Some...
Oculus (2013)There were mixed reviews for this horror film about a cursed mirror.Essentially this is a ghost film. I can accept it a little better because there's an inhuman source of the haunting. I...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Three 25-22
25. X2: X-Men United (2003)The first X-Men movie was the first movie in a long while to make superhero movies feel worth taking seriously again. While the story was a bit flat in the first instalment...
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Director's Showcase: Alejandro Amenabar - "The Others" and "Tesis"
I recently rewatched a couple of films from one of my favourite directors: Alejandro Amenabar. I thought they both held up well.The Others (2001)I love Alejandro Amenabar's films. I haven't seen...
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"Les Yeux Sans Visage" Has Some Classic Enduring Imagery, But It's Lacking In...
Eyes Without A Face (1960)I understand that this is an important film in the history of horror cinema. However, I found it incredibly irritating. Sure, the central premise is horrifying and the mask...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Four 21-18
21. Iron Man (2008)Marvel Studios’ first film is a fairly straight-forward action comedy romp about a man kidnapped by terrorists (which is practically the opening shot of the film) who escapes by...
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"Spring" Is An Awesome Monster-Romance Movie And "Bug" Is A Powerful...
Spring (2014)A monster romance movie. Starts off with a down-to-earth backpacking tourist film, not unlike the movie Afflicted, only with a less boisterous protagonist. But when he meets a mysterious...
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"Bridge Of Spies" Is An Excellent Spielberg Drama Aided By A Great Coen...
Bridge Of Spies (2015)A very solid film, owing some definite credit to the Coen Brothers as script writers. Spielberg decides to go super-schmaltzy in the last couple of minutes, but it's a small...
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A Selection Of Reviews: "Avanti", "Shaun The Sheep", "Belle" and "Retroactive"
Avanti (1972)A frikkin' wonderful Jack Lemmon movie from Billy Wilder, the director of “Double Indemnity” and “Some Like It Hot”.I saw this many years ago when it was randomly on tv and was totally...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Five 17-13
17. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)Captain America is a bit of an annoying superhero for me. He's supposed to be patriotic because of his memory of warfare back in WWII, but that makes...
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A Selection Of Horror: "Demons", "Martyrs" and "The Strangers" - I Prefer The...
Demons (1985)Since I found Mario Bava's Black Sabbath seemed a little overly cheesy, I was a little surprised that I ended up throughly loving Demons. It has that same craziness you expect from Italian...
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Two Fun Recent Films: "While We're Young" and "Cop Car"
While We're Young (2014)I've never been a big fan of Ben Stiller, perhaps liking him best as Mr. Furious in "Mystery Men". I'd also been disappointed by Amanda Seyfried in "Les Miserables" and "In...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Six 12-6
12. Amazing Spider-Man (2012)I don't know that Spider-Man is my favourite superhero, but he's the only Marvel hero I followed in comics as a teenager. As such the adaptation side of things matter more...
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A Review Of The Fan-Reconstructed Star Wars 'Despecialised Editions' + The...
A bunch of dedicated fans got together to create high quality versions of the original Star Wars trilogy. They found an old scratched up copy of the original film reel, they used techniques to remove...
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Great Elijah Wood Performance In A Poor Dylan Thomas Biopic nd I Rewatch And...
Set Fire To The Stars (2014)Elijah Wood is in some really interesting films lately. This one, about a College professor who has to babysit the alcoholic welsh poet Dylan Thomas, sounded like it had a...
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My 31 Favourite Superhero Movies: Part Seven - ...The Top Five!
5. Kick-Ass (2010)Matthew Vaughn is one of my favourite directors and he has never made a film I didn't like, but he actually had a surprising amount of trouble releasing this spoof superhero movie.The...
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My Top 10 Favourite Movies of 2014 (Plus two honourable mentions)
I like to do an end of the year list and then I try to catch up with any films I may have missed (such as obscure indie films and films caught up in the end of year Oscars rush) ready for a proper list...
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David O. Russell's Surprisingly Solid Debut + An Upsettingly Disappointing...
Three Kings (1999)Before David O. Russell made Oscar contenders like The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, he made this comedy about the Gulf War starring George Clooney.One big surprise was to see...
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