Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Interstellar

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2014, Christopher Nolan ( Memento, Insomnia ) -- cinema I too often rag on trailers for being out of context caches of the best bits of ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

X Days of Xmas: Tokyo Godfathers

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2003, Satoshi Kon ( Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent ) -- DVD This is easily one of my favourite Xmas stories and definitely in my top 10...
Monday, December 22, 2014

A festival of Rewatch

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10 Things I Hate About You -- 1999, d. Gil Junger (DVD) Scrooged -- 1988, d. Richard Donner (Netflix) Back to the Future -- 1985, d. Rober...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

A Pair of B Movies

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The Anomaly , 2014, Noel Clarke -- download The Hybrid , 2014, Billy O'Brien -- Netflix B ? C ? Not so bad as to be Z grade but defin...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

3 Short Paragraphs: Winter's Tale

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2014, Akiva Goldsman (writer  A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend ) -- download This is Goldsman's first movie as director, based on a 198...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

3+1 Short Paragraphs: The Maze Runner

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2014, Wes Ball -- download Despite never getting a feature film for Ruin  off the ground, Wes Ball was given the adaptation of the young...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Strap On Those Sandals

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300: Rise of An Empire -- 2014, Zoam Murro -- download Hercules  -- 2014, Brett Ratner  ( Red Dragon, X-Men: Last Stand ) -- download No...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Fury

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2014, David Ayer ( Street Kings, End of Watch ) -- cinema I love this poster.  It is simple, pure and emotive. A weathered Brad Pitt, ta...
Friday, November 28, 2014

3+1 Short Paragraphs: Autómata

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2014, Gabe Ibáñez ( Hierro ) -- download Before I get around to rewatching I, Robot  again (watched it about 6 months ago when I snapped...

Rewatch: Minority Report

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2002, Steven Spielberg ( Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hook ) -- Netflix Almost anytime I review a movie set in a non-spaceship future, I men...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

3 Short Paragraphs: Into the Storm

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2014, Steven Quale ( Final Destination 5 ) -- download Back in the 90s I read a Bruce Sterling novel called Heavy Weather , sort of a cy...
Monday, November 17, 2014

3 Short Paragraphs: The Wolf of Wall Street

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2013, Martin Scorsese ( Gangs of New York , Shutter Island ) -- download This movie, a big movie about big people starring big stars (Le...
Monday, November 10, 2014

3+1 Short Paragraphs: Another Earth

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2011, Mike Cahill -- Netflix As I was saying, it was this film that Kent professed his fondness for the "low-budget, dramatic scien...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

3+1 Short Paragraphs: The Signal

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2014, William Eubank ( Love ) -- download Kent mentioned, and I recently re-read, his fondness for independent scifi, or more precisely ...
Friday, November 7, 2014

3 Short Paragraphs: Lawless

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2012, John Hillcoat ( The Proposition, The Road ) -- Netflix You can expect a couple of things from a screenplay by Nick Cave -- inexpli...

Retro One Episode: Get Smart, The Green Hornet, The Man From U.N.C.L.E,

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Get Smart (1965-1970) The Green Hornet (1966-1967) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968) I was a fan of Get Smart as a kid.  Even thoug...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

Nerdfall: Gotham, The Flash, Constantine, Star Wars: Rebels

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Gotham , Mondays @ 8 on Fox/CTV The Flash , Tuesdays @ 8 on CW/CTV Constantine : Fridays @ 10 on NBC/Global Star Wars: Rebels : Sundays @...