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November 01st, 2006
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Paris, Texas
October 29th, 2006
October 29th, 2006
It's too full of the sort of tiny detail that can only come out when you have a long relationship with a film, watching it over and over. If you're the sort of film fan who just wants a hit of entertainment, it's as boring as Mel Gibson's dog's arse.
Fast Food Nation
April 05th, 2007
April 05th, 2007
The result is a film not nearly as effective as it could have been. Storylines are dropped for no reason, Linklater can't help shoehorning his favourite slacker muse Ethan Hawke into the narrative where there isn't really a place for him, and the whole project would have been better served
Tales of the Unexpected
July 01st, 2007
July 01st, 2007
Stories weren't about issues in those days, they were about setting up a scenario you'd never seen before (paying attention, Hollywood?) and keeping you mercilessly hooked by your need to know What Happens Next.
Journey to the Centre of the Earth vs The Day the Earth Stood Still
July 01st, 2003
July 01st, 2003
Klaatu is Earth's Jiminy Cricket, warning us to change our violent ways before they ruin us. In post war/early cold war America, it seemed that nuclear weapons would spell all our doom before long.
JCVD
July 16th, 2009
July 16th, 2009
It’s over fifteen years since his star shone in Hollywood, and action movie actor JCVD (van Damme, playing himself but sort-of-not in an avant-garde, Felliniesque kind of way) is a man nearing rock bottom as he fights against both huge tax losses and his former wife for custody of their
Candy
December 25th, 2007
December 25th, 2007
While none of us should expect actors to decide which movies to do for any reason other than their own satisfaction, some actors come off looking a bit too ‚'actorly'. They don't take on roles to entertain, they take on roles to prove to everyone (including themselves) how good they