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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

What I Am Watching: The Glades, Continuum, Ray Donovan

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The Glades  is a light, couple fare procedural. The premise, which was probably dispensed with by episode 3 of the first season, of a cop ...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: After Earth

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2013, M. Night Shyamalan -- cinema Right out of the star port, I have to state I am a Shyamalan Apologist.  I have enjoyed, to some degr...

3 Short Paragraphs (We Agree): Much Ado About Nothing

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2013, Joss Whedon ( The Avengers ) -- cinema When I first heard the rumours that Joss was working on a Shakespeare adaptation, it just s...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: This is the End

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2013, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg -- cinema I was nervous about this movie for pretty much the same reasons as Graig was, with one add...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Much Ado About Nothing

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d. Joss Whedon, 2012 - in theatre Since I met my wife, my Shakespeare IQ has gone up 500%, in that I knew next to nothing about Shakespear...
Monday, August 12, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: This Is The End

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d. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, 2013 -- in theatre I was nervous about This Is The End, nervous that it would be a film too "inside ...

3 Short Paragraphs: Enemy Mine

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d. Wolfgang Petersen, 1985 -- netflix I had, for some time, considered Wolfgang Petersen to be an arty film director, one of those Europe...
Friday, August 9, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: World War Z

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2013, Marc Forster ( Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace ) -- cinema OK, let me get this out. This looks  like a good movie -- i...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs + A Couple More: Doomsday Book

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2012, Pil-Sung Yim, Kim Jee-Woon -- Netflix This is a trilogy of science fiction stories from Korea, well made and incredibly well tol...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: The Next Three Days

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2010, Paul Haggis ( Crash ) -- Netflix Is Russell Crow aging well? As a man or as a career? He is a few years older than me and while we...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: Jack the Giant Slayer

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2013, Bryan Singer ( X-Men, Superman Returns ) -- download How do I change these "reviews" up? They never ended up what they s...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Defiance

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Defiance  is both a SyFy Channel TV show and a massively multiplayer game. They were advertised as being tied together, in plot and characte...

3 Short Paragraphs: The Possession

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2012, Ole Bornedal ( Nightwatch ) -- download Originally called Dibbuk Box  this movie is a respectable example of a possession movie, b...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

What I Am Watching: True Blood, Luther, Under the Dome

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SPOILERS.  You are warned. Yes, we are still watching True Blood  long after having given up on it. Why? Because of the train wreck appe...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: Haywire

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d. Steven Soderberg, 2011 I would definitely site Stephen Soderbergh as one of my favourite film directors, but as I look through his repe...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: Pacific Rim

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2013, Guillermo del Toro ( Mimic, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth ) -- cinema Squeeee!!  OK, this is not one of the requisite paragraphs bu...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Monsters University

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d. Dan Scanlon, 2013 - in theatre I didn't become a Pixar fan, really and truly, until I had kids in my life.  I enjoyed some Pixar mo...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: Warm Bodies

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2013, Jonathan Levine ( 50/50 ) -- download I don't understand the need to do the "alternate" zombie movie. Sure, I get th...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

3 Short Paragraphs: Spring Breakers

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2012, Harmony Korine ( Gummo , writer Kids ) -- download Harmony Korine is a highly lauded indie director and writer, most known for his...

Another Earth

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d. Mike Cahill, 2011 - Netflix If I were to be perfectly honest about my favourite kind of movie, it might be discovery documentaries (t...

Searching for Sugar Man

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d. Malik Bendjelloul, 2012 - Netflix The "unknown musicians getting their due" is fast developing into a familiar, if not quite ...
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