Monthly Archives: July 2013

Man of Steel (Review)

Little Kal-El goes through many changes over the course of the 2 ½ hours of Man of Steel. Unfortunately in the hands of director Zack Snyder these changes are often confusing and clumsily handled. Kal-El is the first ‘natural birth’, … Continue reading

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Suspect Zero (Review)

Suspect Zero shouldn’t work and very nearly doesn’t. It takes a scarily plausible idea then makes the mistake of – or dares to – depending on your viewpoint, by wrapping a scarily implausible idea around it and letting them duel … Continue reading

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B Movie Haiku Review Special Event: Sharknado!

I normally wait until I have a few of these before I put these types of reviews on site. But it appears that Sharknado! cannot be denied. This one is for the Mastah… Sharknado As with most Sci-Fi channel movies, … Continue reading

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My Blue Heaven (Review)

I love it when someone gives Steve Martin a character and tells him to run with it. In Dirty Rotten Scoundrels he was a larger than life conman, in Bowfinger a down on his luck director, even in Sgt. Bilko … Continue reading

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Pacific Rim (Review)

Pacific Rim is a bad film made by a good filmmaker. I don’t mean to say that the film is without its moments or a poor effort. It appears passionate enough. It’s just that the next great ‘monsters vs giant … Continue reading

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B Movie Haikus: File Under – ‘Gimmicks’: Twins / Snakes on a Plane / The Beaver

So this time around I thought I would check out a few films where the poster tells you a lot about what you might be in for. In the case of these three films while there might be truth in … Continue reading

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Jack the Giant Slayer (Review)

Jack the Giant Slayer tries to throw millions of dollars at a children’s fairy tale and sell it to teens. Good luck with that. Despite the poor judgment – and some pretty dodgy CGI – the film would actually be … Continue reading

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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Review)

After a poorly thought out machete playfight leaves his brother bisected out of all existence (according to his father the wrong boy is bisected), Dewey Cox turns to music. Within hours he has mastered the blues… But he doesn’t end it … Continue reading

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Vacancy (Review)

Another Hostel style ‘wouldn’t it be horrible if…?’ film that is thankfully both light on the (unnecessary) gore and similarly lean on the running time. In the first six minutes of the movie married couple David (Luke Wilson) and Amy … Continue reading

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Spawn (Review)

The battle between good and evil has been going on forever, and will continue until someone manages to convince Lady GaGa to pick a side and tweet the decision to her followers, sending her global army of little monsters into … Continue reading

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