Monthly Archives: January 2015

Blue Ruin (Review)

Dwight (Macon Blair) is a scruffy homeless looking guy. The kind of guy that would sip from the same dirty cardboard coffee cup for the entire day and would stub the cigarette down carefully just so he could finish it later. If … Continue reading

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Starsky and Hutch (Review)

In the still swinging 70s Bay City (NOT San Fran Cisco) was the place to be. The music was ok, the ladies still in their original non-Dr assisted packaging, the cars especially beastie and the policemen allegedly funky. Not so … Continue reading

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28 Days Later (Review)

  Do-gooders + monkeys = a bad combo… Four weeks pass. Tim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up to the aftermath. Unaffected ‘thanks’ to being in a medically induced coma for many days. London is strange. Deserted. Signs or prior chaos and … Continue reading

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Blade Runner (Review)

In the extremely distant future of 2019 (! Well it was distant in 1982), the Earth’s cities have taken on a more cramped, damp and washed out neon lit appearance, with a melting pot population of various backgrounds and ethnicities. … Continue reading

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Fury (Review)

With World War 2 nearing a conclusion, the retreating German troops are becoming more desperate, slaughtering innocents who refuse to serve and doing whatever is necessary to impede the advancing enemy. The American tank dubbed Fury is no longer at … Continue reading

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Coach Carter (Review)

In the interest of brevity, yes, Coach Carter is the same film they drag out every couple years; talented but flawed team of unloved, unsupervised or plain old neglected underachievers and misunderstood ‘complicated types in a sometimes harsh world’, are … Continue reading

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Byzantium (Review)

Their story spans centuries. United by blood and driven by their reliance on it. Clara (Gemma Arterton) and Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are inseparable but poles apart. Eleanor is quiet and insecure. She writes poetry and elaborate stories, but picks off … Continue reading

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Just Cause (Review)

Just Cause is one of those dark thrillers that proliferated the 90s. The ones that gave the occasional jolt and shock, but never felt the need to torture porn it up. And this is a reasonable one. When Bobby Earl … Continue reading

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Ironclad & Ironclad 2: Battle for Blood – 2 Feudal Reviews

Ironclad The year 1215 was a significant one. It represented the supposed conclusion to an era of gross mismanagement under the rule of one King John (Paul Giamatti), with the culmination being the signing of a peace treaty known as … Continue reading

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Take Shelter (Review)

Nervous people always think something is coming. Paranoid people think that something is coming to get them. For a while it seems that Curtis (Michael Shannon) falls in the former category. However trepidation about a possible storm brewing leads to … Continue reading

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