Cinema Mishmash

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Here is a sure indicator that a movie franchise has gone too far: when the latest installment, despite the spectacle of its explosions and special effects, is more or less a bore. That is, sadly, the state of things in the X-Men department. By the look of things, the film has left the caretakers of [...]

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I just really can’t reconcile the number of films that have been made which star Nicolas Cage as the mildly vacant character swept up in some sort or frenetic intrigue. If there is any definitive proof that Hollywood is catering to the the least ambitious part of our collective movie consumption, it has to be [...]

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I had a look at this film on the Nexflix streaming service on my new LG Blu-ray player because UK film critic Mark Kermode is always going on about how it’s one of his favorite films. On the technical side, while I am rather impressed at how some of the HD streaming titles look projected [...]

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Anyone of a certain age is sure to remember the Witch Mountain movies of the late 1970s, in which a pair of otherworldly kids with telepathic and telekinetic powers were constantly on the run from some threat of another. (Okay, I don’t remember the details, only that the girl Tia had a cool name and [...]

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The time travel thriller is no easy nut to crack. On the one hand, you can’t entirely ignore the logical and physical conundrum of what would happen if one person traveled back to a time and place he had already existed. On the other hand, if you try too hard to come up with a [...]

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When one comes across a film as quixotic and dense as Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 Sci-Fi art film, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the less that is said, the better. And I use those two descriptive adjectives in the most complementary way. In fact, the one thing that I found the most refreshing in the [...]

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If a film manages to provoke dialogue or debate, then it cannot be considered to be without value. In the case of Babylon A.D., that debate was: Which is worse, a bad story or a bad ending? The argument could made that both descriptions apply to this Vin Diesel vehicle, but I submit that the [...]

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Begin with something nice, I always say. With that in mind, and the Blu-ray disc of 10,000 B.C. has the nicest of beginnings. Which is to say, when one loads the disc in the player, the movie actually begins playing right away. No really, it’s true. No trailers, no cable TV series promotions, no guy [...]

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In Brendan Fraser, the producers of Journey to the Center of the Earth must have been looking for someone who wouldn’t distract from the real star of the film: the multitude of special effects shots. In fact, Fraser’s acting style could very well be computer generated, making him seem right at home among the subterranean [...]

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