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October 16th, 2009
Moviehole
The Proposal
June 18th, 2009
June 18th, 2009
Occasionally you realise the genre can rise above the forgettable standards set by most films in it, and as The Proposal shows, only one thing can do so, and that’s people with chemistry who know how to be funny.
Deliverance
September 27th, 2007
September 27th, 2007
It almost becomes something Quentin Tarantino would remake as a cult classic (four male friends suffer anal rape by filthy hayseeds before their surviving number fights back with bows and arrows).
Wolverine
May 07th, 2009
May 07th, 2009
If you've sat through a comic book adaptation in the last ten years, you'll find yourself either pleased or slightly bored to be in such familiar territory.
The Dark Knight
July 15th, 2008
July 15th, 2008
By treating his characters and the subject seriously it becomes his Empire Strikes Back — a movie that in every way builds on and surpasses its formidable predecessor, revealing a filmmaker in full maturity.
Superhero Movie
May 16th, 2008
May 16th, 2008
The breakout work of the genre, 1980's Airplane/Flying High, was the mother lode of parody comedies, with both visual and scripting jokes flying at a pace you could hardly keep pace with.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
June 24th, 2009
June 24th, 2009
The plot is a throwaway concern featuring another Macguffin that everybody wants to find. An opening coda explains how the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons have been on Earth for milennia, hidden among us after having built a huge machine designed to destroy the sun for their power source