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The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Shari ) Well, Earth is destroyed, but luckily guy-next-door Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is best friends with an alien named Ford Prefect (Mos Def, “The Woodsman”), who saves Arthur’s life by...
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3 Steps to Heaven (1995) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) “3 Steps to Heaven” is a British crime drama about a female protagonist named Suzanne (Katrin Cartlidge) who takes it upon herself to solve the mysterious death of her...
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Layer Cake (2004) Movie Review
Following the success of Guy Ritchie’s “Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels” in 1998, the British film industry found itself overrun with tales of London gangsters, most of which were sadly made with little...
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Close Your Eyes aka Doctor Sleep (2002) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) “Close Your Eyes” is a British paranormal thriller directed by Nick Willing and based on the novel “Dr. Sleep” by Madison Smartt Bell. Though unread by me, judging by...
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Cold and Dark (2004) Movie Review
Besides being one of the rare British horror films to incorporate a plot that is as “out there” as some of its American independent brethrens, Andrew Goth’s “Cold and Dark” is of interest to...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) Movie Review
(Movie Review by Donnie Saxton) Somewhat disturbingly, I can easily imagine Clive Owen (“Sin City”) in 1971 practicing his chilling stare in an English sandbox while taking some poor toddler’s lunch money. That same...
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Nine Lives (2002) Movie Review
It’s rare these days to find a horror film that strays even a little bit outside of genre conventions; it’s even worse with the teen slasher subgenre. Dark corridors, scared teens, thunder and lightning,...
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Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) Movie Review
Despite its title, “Wisconsin Death Trip” is not a crazed backwoods slasher film, but rather a feature length documentary about the high incidence of murder and madness which afflicted the small town of Black...
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9 Songs (2004) Movie Review
Writer/director Michael Winterbottom’s “9 Songs” is about a 20-something couple who meets during a live concert, retires to the man’s apartment for a night of marathon sex, then decides to shack up for a...
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Creep (2004) Movie Review
“Creep” comes along at a time when the British horror industry is experiencing a resurgence of sorts, with recent years bringing forth films such as “28 Days Later” and “Dead Man’s Shoes”. In this...
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If Only (2004) Movie Review
At the risk of losing my non-existent “cool” credibility with the hipsters who regularly visit the site, let me go ahead and say that I’ve always found Jennifer Love Hewitt, formerly of the TV...
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The Truth About Love (2004) Movie Review
I don’t usually watch a lot of Romantic Comedies, mostly on the basis that RomComs are so pedantic and uninspiring as to be insulting to one’s intelligence. As such, my intermittent doses of RomComs...
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Bride and Prejudice (2004) Movie Review
Gurinder Chadha’s “Bride and Prejudice”, supposedly a modern retelling (Bollywood style) of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, allows me to break out my favorite line when reviewing movies such as these: It is what...
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Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) Movie Review
“Dead Man’s Shoes” has been playing at various international festivals, and has been described as revitalizing the slasher film in much the same way that “28 Days Later” recently did to the zombie genre....
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Hardware (1990) Movie Review
One of the bleakest, most inventive, and nihilistic films of the 1990s was barely noticed when it was first released, but thanks to cable and video rentals, “Hardware” has slowly gained a following that...
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Death Machine (1995) Movie Review
When you get right down to it, Stephen Norrington’s debut film, “Death Machine”, is pretty stupid. And I don’t even mean that in a disparaging way, because although it is without a doubt a...
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Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) Movie Review
The Doctor Who series has been many things over the past few decades, but funny has never been one of them. And while director John Henderson and writer Steven Moffat may have only a...
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Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) Movie Review
After a few years of no new Doctor Who, fans of the show would have been tickled to watch Tom Baker read from the Gallifrey dictionary for 2 hours. Instead, they got a 15-minute...
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Lighthouse (1999) Movie Review
There’s no doubt the British Slasher “Lighthouse” (aka “Dead of Night”) could have been much better. It has an interesting premise, but the execution lacks proficiency and there’s a dullness about the whole thing...
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Doctor Who: The Movie (1996) Movie Review
Ever since “Doctor Who” had its final sign-off in 1989, fans have been clamoring for its resurrection. They got their wish in May of 1996, when a joint BBC/Universal Films production was released on...
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