Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Most would agree that the Fifty Shades books are a cross between fanfiction and a trashy beach read – no one is going to be proclaiming E.L. James author of the year any time soon – but the movies based…
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Bruce Willis became an iconic action hero with his portrayal of police officer John McClean in the film Die Hard which spawned four sequels; so, casting Willis in the Charles Bronson role of Eli Roth’s remake of the 1974 film, Death Wish…
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I’m a sucker for disaster films, so the idea of blending in a Die Hard style heist with a natural disaster was pretty much catnip to me. Sadly, director Rob Cohen fails on both counts as this movie is neither…
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It has become clear to movie goers that there exists in the world today two completely different Nicholas Cages – one who is the series actor, starring in films such as Adaptation and Leaving Las Vegas – and then there is…
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Did we need a Han Solo origin story? The obvious answer is no – we learned everything we needed to know about the character in Star Wars: A New Hope – but with Disney hell-bent on making the Star Wars…
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With the popularity of the zombie genre still chugging along – with numerous zombie movies and television shows popping up at an alarming rate – it is sad to report that the percentage of good zombie content versus bad zombie…
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Pirate films have existed since the very early years of the 20th Century, from the silent film classic, The Black Pirate (1926) with Douglas Fairbanks, to the rousing epic Captain Blood (1935) with Errol Flynn, yet modern audiences are mostly familiar…
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Can South Africa pass for the Canadian Arctic Circle? The producers of this sixth Tremors movie certainly hope so as budgetary concerns keeps the series production in the southern climes of South Africa – some kind of Graboids tax break,…
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From Georges Méliès Trip to the Moon to Walt Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, filmmakers have taken to adapting the works of science fiction giant Jules Verne like a duck to water, with even lesser known pictures like Master…
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What can you expect from a sequel almost two decades late that goes straight-to-video? Well certainly don’t expect much from Deep Blue Sea 2, as it could either be billed as “The sequel that no one wanted” or, more accurately, “A carbon…
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