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Film Review: The Fall

At first I thought I didn’t like The Fall very much. The trailer had led me to expect a real visual freak out, but on the surface The Fall seemed a fairly pedestrian effort. Though director Tarsem brought visual flash to certain sequences overall the movie was best described as “low key”. Yet, there’s more [...]

Film Review: The Happening

M. Night Shyamalan was a burning star of American cinema, making four near-perfect films in a row. Starting with the heart-rending Wide Awake, (and, if you haven’t seen that, you really should), through the low-key chills of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable and finishing with the truly terrifying Signs, he was a cinematic revelation who [...]

18 Films That Will Send You to Hell

Any old film can present you with a hellish scenario, but it’s the rare film that actually takes you to hell itself. It turns out that hell, like everything else, is pretty much what you make it. Sometimes hell is crowded and noisy, like the bus at rush hour, sometimes its full of terrifying beasts, [...]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Of Strangely Entertaining Bullshit

I could almost leave it at the title, couldn’t I? Today is the grand and glorious day all Indy-philes have been waiting for. At least that’s what I read on the web. Has anybody really been desperately hoping for a new Indiana Jones film? I mean, when I heard there was going to be a [...]

10 Terrible Movies by 10 Great Directors

1) Stephen Spielberg – Always (1989)
Spielberg patented a brand of cinema that fairly sparkled with magic on the screen. It’s a difficult quality to nail down, sweet but not quite sugary, a blend of attractive lighting, likable characters and perfection of detail. It seemed to always work. Well, not always. Spielberg’s remake [...]

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