By James on May 26th, 2011 at 2:04 pm Film, Reviews
Thomas Bess recommends a film made in 1977 that, despite doing so with countless movies before, he has trouble describing it.
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By James on May 25th, 2011 at 7:15 pm Film, Reviews
Though the marketing campaign is doing its damndest to make sure you don’t realize it, SAW 3D is actually the seventh installment in the franchise that made “torture porn” the most polarizing horror sub-genre in recent memory. Stop and think about that for a second: there are SEVEN freakin’ SAW movies out there.
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By James on May 24th, 2011 at 9:35 pm Film, Reviews
In the interest of your time and my fervent desire to not be labeled a shill again, let’s get this out of the way immediately. If you thought (no matter how wrongheaded that thinking might have been) that the first Paranormal Activity was a boring, overhyped slice of wank cake, please know that you can stop reading now and be content in the knowledge that your opinion of the sequel will be exactly the same.
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By James on May 20th, 2011 at 12:00 pm Film, Reviews
My Soul to Take is a pretty entertaining (albeit rather different) yarn, but there’s just enough problems salted throughout to keep it from being as effective as it could have been.
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By James on February 9th, 2011 at 2:03 pm Film, Reviews
Anthony Hopkins battles demons, Colin O’Donoghue wages war against charisma.
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By James on January 22nd, 2011 at 12:54 pm Film, Reviews
At the very least it’ll make you wary of ski-lift operators and other everyday folks who have some sort of casual control over your wellbeing. That might sound like a paranoid way to live but hey, when was the last time you heard about a paranoiac stumbling into a situation where they could freeze to death or be devoured by wolves all in the same evening? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
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By James on January 20th, 2011 at 12:16 pm Film, Reviews
If you enjoy the classic slasher formula and gore that makes the most brutal Mortal Kombat fatalities look like a Hallmark card accompanied by a warm slice of your grandma’s apple pie, you need to get your hands on a copy of Hatchet 2 and drag all your likeminded friends along for the ride.
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By James on December 29th, 2010 at 1:08 pm Art, Film, Reviews, Technology
Both factions are heading for a portal to the outside world and, wouldn’t you know it, they arrive at exactly the same time.
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By James on November 4th, 2010 at 6:00 am Film, Reviews
Knowing that Let Me In wasn’t so much a horror yarn as it was a study of adolescent turmoil where one of the characters just happens to be a vampire allowed me to enjoy the story much more and raise my appreciation for the original at the same time, a win-win in my book.
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By James on October 21st, 2010 at 6:00 am Film, Reviews
Despite the fact that he’s just a producer on this one, Shyamalan will be getting the lion’s share of attention for its success or failure, which is a shame, because if anyone deserves to see their stock rise in the wake of this outing, it’s Dowdle and not the dude who brought us killer pollen and the most poorly-planned alien invasion in the history of cinema.
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