Category: Movies
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Karate Kid – We’ve Changned Almost Everything
First, go and watch this trailer for the new Karate Kid movie staring Jacki Chan and Wil Smith’s talented son Jaden. If this weren’t being billed as The Karate Kid, I don’t think it would be that bad. My problem is that, once again, we’ve taken everything except the most very basic story idea (kid…
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Friday the 13th (2009): Just Die Already
To say I didn’t hold out a whole lot of hope for the reboot of the Friday the 13th franchise would only be a slight understatement. I was relatively happy with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, so seeing the same team involved kept my expectations from being totally negative. There was some small spark of…
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The Strangers: A More Classic Terror
Liv Tyler attempts to escape from one of the interlopers in The Strangers. It being the Halloween, I’ve been in the mood for horror films. Over the last few years, there has been no shortage of supposedly scary movies. Problem is, most of the ones I’ve seen haven’t been all that scary. Disgusting? Yes. Full…
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Three claws down for X-Men Origins: Wolverine
I could spend hours poking and picking at the things they changed from the comic book continuity I grew up on and loved. I could lament the lack of some of my favorite story bits and the light touch they gave others. I could do all that, but, when it comes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine…
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Push
Got back a little while ago from seeing Push. Not a bad film, but definitely not as advertised. If you’ve seen the ads, it’s being billed as “the first real action film of the year” or some such. Let me be the first to tell you, Push is not an action film. It’s got a…
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More Horror
Hot on the heels of Forrest J. Ackerman’s death, I’ve come across a couple of much more positive horror goodies. First, the flick that my friend Kelley was in, Women’s Studies, has been picked up for distribution. That means that all y’all will be able to see it. That’s good news for everyone. Then, another…
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New slew of remakes and sequels
Anyone who’s been paying attention to things showing up in the movies or on their television over the last few years has probably noticed that everything old is new again–either through a re-make (or re-boot, or re-visioning) or through a sequel. Well, it looks like the coming film and television season won’t change that much.…
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Just finished Spider-Man 3…
…and, wow am I glad I didn’t see that in the theater! Seriously. They could have had two good movies and, instead, they crammed it all into one kinda crappy one. Pretty, though. In fact, as long as you don’t care about semi-sensible plot, proper character development or actual working story arcs, it’s the perfect…
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Metropolis Rediscovered!
According to reports from Ain’t It Cool News and Zeit Online, a massive amount of previously unknown footage from the sci-fi classic Metropolis has been discovered. This is footage that may not have been seen anywhere since the first showings of the silent epic in the late 1920s. Anyone who’s a fan of sci-fi should…
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Nights In Are For Movies
Cry_Wolf was pretty good. A bit better than I expected it to be. The plot keeps you guessing what’s really going on and it all pays off pretty well in the end. Taking into account that the writer/director Jeff Wadlow has only done some shorts before, it’s pretty darn impressive. The young cast already has…