Monthly Archives: March 2012

10 prime examples of Cinema Violence

Low                              0-4. Actually pretty un-violent. Guarded                    4-6. More Tea Vicar? Elevated                     7. Ewwwwwwww… High                             8-9. Yuckadoos. Severe                         10. I WANT MY MUMMY!! Onscreen violence has been diluted over the years through sheer repetition and desensitization. … Continue reading

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Hugo (Review)

Hugo Cabret is a young porcelain faced boy with luminous blue eyes. He lives in the clocktower in a train station and spends most of his days scurrying though recesses and behind walls ensuring the numerous timepieces in the station … Continue reading

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Closer (Review)

I am the first to admit that this is not a movie that I would usually watch, but with Children of Men and Sin City I developed a major man-crush on Clive Owen for a week or so (there were … Continue reading

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(Escape to) Victory (Review)

Apparently landing in a WW2 Prisoner of War (POW) camp was not a good development. In the 80s film Victory though I get the (mistaken) impression that things could turn out much worse. The basic premise of the film is … Continue reading

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Disorganised Crime (Review)

Not long ago I watched Bubba Ho-Tep, a film so out there and original that I couldn’t help admire it even if I didn’t really love it… even like it that much. Here we have the polar opposite, a film … Continue reading

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Supporting Characters that need a spin-off

The one thing all films have in common is that they contain characters – otherwise they are not films but paintings, photos or reality shows. Characters do not have to be human, they can be animals, bugs or aliens, but … Continue reading

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John Carter (Review)

(* The sheer number of wildly different posters all saying nothing make it clear that they had no idea how to market this film.) In the late 1800s John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) was a brave, strong and skilled warrior, a … Continue reading

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Red Canyon (Review)

Regina and Devin are siblings with a troubled past, Regina is especially haunted by an event that took place 8 years previous in a ‘secret party cave’ near the small desert town of Red Canyon. Now let’s never speak of … Continue reading

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Judge Dredd (Review)

The setting of Judge Dredd is so formulaic and repetitive that I should save it to autotext: In a dystopian future where everyone has moved to the already over-populated cities, crime is rife and law enforcement practically non-existent… Into this … Continue reading

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The Revenant (Review)

The title of the film refers to a ‘revenant’, an undead creature of the night whose body continually deteriorates and essentially rots unless it receives fresh life giving blood. The rotting part suggests zombie, the ‘needs blood’ and lives by … Continue reading

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