Monthly Archives: July 2014

Dark Shadows (Review)

It seems nowadays that Tim Burton’s primary concern is how to make Johnny Depp look different. For over two decades now he and Depp have teamed up to make visually inventive and atmospheric films of diminishing quality. For me Sleepy … Continue reading

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Adaptation (Review)

Like Being John Malkovich, describing Adaptation is inviting a dubious reaction. In short it tells the tale of a man trying to tell a tale of a woman trying to tell a tale of a man who likes flowers, all … Continue reading

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The ‘Burbs (Review)

Ray (Tom Hanks) is taking a week off from work in what has recently (and unfortunately) been dubbed a ‘staycation’. More sensible known as a holiday spent at home. Wife Carol (Carrie Fisher) thinks Ray should take the more traditional … Continue reading

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David Gray Discography Review – A Musical Timeline

2001: San Francisco. Some nondescript pub on the corner of a city street. A jukebox. Someone else’s quarter. That was how I came to learn about the simple majesty of David Gray. Killing 15 minutes in a dodgy, nearly empty … Continue reading

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Review)

When we left the solid but not spectacular Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the recently escaped Apes (esc-Apes?) were fleeing to the hills outside San Francisco, leaving humankind stewing in rage below. Ten Winters have passed. The experimental … Continue reading

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The Factory (Review)

Someone is taking young girls off the streets in the US state of Buffalo. No bodies have shown up. No evidence of value is available. They have simply vanished from the kerbside. (Probably after much picketing from local users of … Continue reading

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A Scanner Darkly (Review)

California. Near future. Addiction is rife. Addiction to ‘Substance D’. An undercover cop embroils himself in the junkie lifestyle, seeking to work his way to middle tier dealers. So undercover is he that even his superiors don’t even know who … Continue reading

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The Long Kiss Goodnight (Review)

Samantha is a 30 something white suburban single mom. She has lived a middle class, clean living existence for as long as she can remember. Which is exactly eight years. You see that was how long ago Samantha was ‘born’, … Continue reading

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The Deep Sea Death Quintology: Deep Rising / Sphere / Deep-Star Six / Virus / Leviathan

Hollywood is a copycat industry. If a film finds an audience and makes money there is every chance that studios will try to jump on the bandwagon so that they can milk the (cash) cow for all it is worth. … Continue reading

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The Protector 2 (Review)

Episode 4 in a series of films that shows the folly of taking things off Tony Jaa. In Ong Bak it was sacred religious artefacts. In The Protector it was an elephant. In The Protector 2 it is our willingness … Continue reading

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