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		<title>Big Man Japan (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Big Man Japan”, now available on region 2 DVD via Revolver, marks the directorial debut of noted Japanese comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto, one half of the popular duo Dauntaun. Here, as well as scripting, he also takes the central role in a mockumentary following the daily life and exploits of Masaru Daisato, a seemingly unremarkable man, who just happens to have a talent for transforming into the huge Dai-Nipponjin when zapped with electricity. In this guise of Big Man Japan, he defends the country against a variety of increasingly strange giant monsters, taking them on with his iron bar. Unfortunately his job, handed down from his father and grandfather, takes its toll on his family and life, not to mention turning the public against him for his often destructive methods. 
With “Big Man Japan”, Matsumoto takes an admirably straight faced, deadpan approach, and the fake documentary style and interview format work superbly. Effectively carrying the film on his shoulders, he turns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Andromeda Strain (2008) TV Mini-Series Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodie Bass</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science-fiction movies have a few rules they generally must adhere to in order to be considered &#8220;science&#8221; fiction.  First, they must revolve around a science, whether that&#8217;s physics, astronomy, biology, quantuum mechanics, geology or any of a multitude of fields of study.  Really good science fiction includes more than one of the sciences.  Second, they have to stretch the currently accepted &#8220;absolutes&#8221; and propose ideas that, though unproven, allow you to believe in new concepts that might be possible.  It&#8217;s not as easy to do as it sounds.  Consider that we currently take for granted so many things that people thought wildly impossible only fifty years ago.  Communications lasers, biological warfare, weapons satellites, DNA mapping, space stations, microscopic memory chips, bionic implants and nanotechnology to name only a few.  Science fiction stories introduce new theories that, though implausible by today&#8217;s standards, inspire a belief that it might just be possible.  
The original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man From Earth (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Man From Earth&#8221; is a time travel movie that never travels through time; it&#8217;s very much a talky movie in every sense of the word, as the entire film consists of a group of people sitting around a cabin discussing theories and hypothesis, much of it based on truth as told by one man who may or may not be lying. It is, for all intents and purposes, a play shot as a movie, based on the last story ever written by noted sci-fi writer Jerome Bixby. And you know what? It is one of the best movies I&#8217;ve seen all year.
When I say there is no action in &#8220;The Man From Earth&#8221;, I mean there is not a single shred of action in the entire movie. That is, if you define &#8220;action&#8221; in traditional cinema terms &#8212; people doing things of the physical nature in service of narrative progression. The film, from beginning to end, is one big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Invasion (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked. I knew going in about the production troubles and the massive reshoots ordered by the studio honchos to &#8216;fix&#8217; the film, but I thought I could give it a fair shake anyway. I mean, it&#8217;s got Nicole Kidman, who usually only strips down for quality, and 007 himself, Daniel Craig. The credited director is Oliver Hirschbiegel, a German filmmaker highly praised for his Der-Fuhrer-fillum &#8216;Downfall&#8217; several years back. This is his American debut. He must&#8217;ve been the draw for the great cast, which also wastes the great Jeffrey Wright, Roger Rees and Jeremy Northam in roles that wouldn&#8217;t challenge a mannequin. Normally, I would say that the studio ruined a great director&#8217;s work, but I really don&#8217;t think this was ever any good to begin with.
This &#8216;Invasion&#8217; is, of course, yet another adaptation of the 1955 Jack Finney novel that inspired the Don Siegel classic, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 50 years from now and once again mankind faces extinction. Not from a meteoric Armageddon, or the inconvenient truth about the environment, but from the death of the sun itself. A second ice age threatens to end life as we know it and so mankind looks to its last hope for survival, a spacecraft christened the &#8220;Icarus II&#8221;, which carries a nuclear device the size of Manhattan intended to be fired into the center of the dying star to relight the burner. 
Since the &#8220;Icarus I&#8221; clearly failed in its maiden attempt, only a single nuclear device remains. If the crew of the &#8220;Icarus II&#8221; fails as well, there will be no more chances. Understandably, the weight of this responsibility hangs heavily on the multi-racial multi-national crew. These seven men and women know that they are nothing BUT expendable. It causes them to question every decision in the light of a philosophical context. Anything or anyone who stands in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformers (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robots. Big f**king robots. If that sounds like something you might like, then you&#8217;ll love Michael Bay&#8217;s &#8220;Transformers&#8221;, because it has robots. Big motherf**king robots. 
So what&#8217;s it about? Um, haven&#8217;t you been paying attention? One more time now: Big F**king Robots.
The plot itself is incidental, but if you insist, here it is: Alien robots from the planet Cybertron have come to Earth in search of the All Spark, a giant cube that they lost many years ago when they were too busy fighting it out on their planet, which they eventually destroyed. The robots consist of two factions: the good Autobots, led by the noble Optimus Prime; and the evil Decepticons, led by the menacing Megatron. And they really, really don&#8217;t like each other. Prime is determined to save humanity and Earth from a fate similar to the one that befell Cybertron, but Megatron really couldn&#8217;t give a damn. He&#8217;s an evil bastard that way.
Luckily for us puny humans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Movie Reviewer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recall the day I was in a Louisiana movie theater with my father watching the first Fantastic 4 film. We enjoyed most of the special effects and Blaze&#8217;s jokes. The plot was fairly nice and the dialogue wasn&#8217;t entirely bad all the time. The Thing&#8217;s drama was played very well. The movie was still garbage, however.
When I learned that a sequel was being made I nearly cringed. This may be the best example yet of Hollywood making a sequel to a movie that is not good just because it made money. Perhaps the upcoming Punisher sequel will top F4&#8217;s creation if it ever has a script that is approved. Later on I learned that this F4 sequel would involve the Silver Surfer. Things looked up. I did not know a lot about the character, but the ambiguity behind his being was intriguing to me, and when I saw the trailer of the Surfer being chased down by the Human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can see how &#8220;Next&#8221; got made, and how it managed to rope in not one, not two, but three A-list stars in Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, and Jessica Biel. The premise is killer: Cris Johnson (Cage), a two-bit Vegas magician can, in reality, see 2-minutes into the future at a time, which comes in handy when FBI agent Callie Ferris (Moore) needs help to search out a nuke that has been smuggled into the U.S. by a team of professional Russian mercenaries. And oh yeah, although Cris can only see 2-minutes into the future at a time, for some reason he saw the appearance of Liz (Biel) at a diner farther ahead than 2-minutes, and has been waiting for her at said diner for some weeks now when, behold, she finally appears.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what they call &#8220;high-concept&#8221;. You can pitch &#8220;Next&#8221; in a couple of sentences, and people will instantly &#8220;get&#8221; or not get it. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once, every now and then, a movie comes along with imagery and tone so solid that it makes me say, &#8220;Yeah&#8221;. I say it with a sort of nonchalant awe and relaxed wonder, not unlike the reaction Shaft would give upon seeing a UFO landing and a super fine alien chick stepping out. The first ten minutes of Miike&#8217;s &#8220;Dead or Alive&#8221;, the battle of Helm&#8217;s Deep in &#8220;The Two Towers&#8221;, and the end of &#8220;Akira&#8221; have all evoked this reaction from me. And, I&#8217;m pleased to say, sitting in the darkness of the cinema watching Danny Boyle&#8217;s new sci-fi piece &#8220;Sunshine&#8221; gave me the same feeling.
&#8220;Sunshine&#8221; is set 50 years in the future, at a time when the sun is dying. Mankind&#8217;s fate rests in the hands of eight young astronauts and physicists, piloting what is essentially a giant bomb into the centre of the sun in an attempt to create a &#8220;star within a star&#8221;. However, as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deja Vu (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science-themed movies are so predictable. In my review of &#8220;The Sinking of Japan&#8221;, I mentioned the tried-and-true scene that invariably pops up when the film attempts to explain its science. At first, the scientist character will indulge in techno babble, but of course someone in the room (usually our hero) will utter the phrase, &#8220;In English, Doctor!&#8221; or a variation thereof. To which the scientist would grab an apple, a piece of paper, or whatever was at hand to demonstrate his techno babble in layman&#8217;s terms using the show, don&#8217;t tell method. &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; goes for the piece of paper. As soon as the scene came up, around 50 minutes into the film, I just had to smile. But wait, in case you thought it was over &#8212; it&#8217;s not! Precisely 5 minutes later, it happens again!
But I digress.
In &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221;, Denzel Washington plays ATF agent Doug Carlin, who is called in when a New Orleans ferry full of Navy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Highlander: The Source (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought &#8220;Highlander 2: The Quickening&#8221; was astounding in its ability to be utterly incoherent and incomprehensible, wait until you get a load of &#8220;Highlander: The Source&#8221;, the fifth installment in the neverending franchise about immortal swordsmen determined to take each other&#8217;s heads so that the last man standing may become &#8220;the one&#8221;. Of course &#8220;the one&#8221; was supposed to have emerged at the end of 1986&#8217;s &#8220;Highlander&#8221;, with Christopher Lambert&#8217;s Connor Macleod bestowed the title. Supposedly. That was before the box office receipts came in. Enter 1991&#8217;s &#8220;Highlander 2: The Quickening&#8221;, where all that had come before was discarded in favor of a convoluted theory that posited the Immortals as having actually hailed from another planet, and given their immortality thanks to some form of punishment. I kid you not.
&#8220;The Quickening&#8221; was a disaster with fans, being equally dismissive of the original and basic human logic, but did prove that there was a fan base ready to lap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultraviolet (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Mackenzie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his filmmaking career, director Kurt Wimmer has been pretty unlucky. His films have something to say, but have suffered from bad fortune in the process of conception to realisation. His 2002 sci-fi piece &#8220;Equilibrium&#8221; (in my opinion a very innovative movie with brilliant action and a strong message) was released during the frenzy created by the &#8220;Matrix&#8221; sequels, and so went largely unnoticed. His latest film &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; creates a similarly bleak vision of the future, however this time suffers not from an unfortunate release date, but rather from Milla Jovovich&#8217;s bad acting and over-involvement from a controlling studio.
Set in the late 21st century, &#8220;Ultraviolet&#8221; paints a picture of a society torn by a war between hemophages (read: vampires) and humans. These hemophages are basically humans that have been infected with a virus created by the government to administer some sort of bizarre population control. People who become hemophage are hunted down by said government and either taken to concentration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Scanner Darkly (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Holcomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s odd when you realize that the novels and short stories of Philip K. Dick have been adapted to the screen almost as frequently as that of Stephen King or John Grisham. Odd because, unlike the pulpier writing of both King and Grisham, Dick&#8217;s stories are quite cerebral and, in the most traditional  Hollywood  sense, uncinematic. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown: &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; (1982), &#8220;Total Recall&#8221; (1990), the French film &#8220;Confessions De&#8217;un Barjo&#8221; (1992), &#8220;Screamers&#8221; (1995), &#8220;Impostor&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Minority Report&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Paycheck&#8221; (2003), &#8220;A Scanner Darkly&#8221; (2006), and the now in-production adaptation of &#8220;The Golden Man&#8221;, since retitled &#8220;Next&#8221; starring Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore.
In most cases, Dick&#8217;s dense and paradoxical plots are used as nothing more than loose pretexts for standard Hollywood action adventure stories. These often feature more proactive heroes in place of the meditative and often reality challenged protagonists of Dick&#8217;s original stories. Clearly, Arnold Schwarzenegger in &#8220;Total Recall&#8221; wasn&#8217;t going to waste time with philosophical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Android Apocalypse (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa! It&#8217;s that guy from &#8220;Blossom&#8221;, and he&#8217;s playing a cyborg! Whoa! Or, actually, Joey Lawrence (billed as &#8220;Joseph Lawrence&#8221;) plays a soft-voiced robot soldier who begins to develop feelings for humans, much to the chagrin of his ever-so-creepy Mad Scientist creator, who clearly has aspirations of megalomaniac proportions. &#8220;Android Apocalypse&#8221; is a Sci Fi Original movie, so right away you can expect a moderate to low budget film, stilted acting, a terrible and illogical screenplay, and a lot of good, unintentional laughs to be had at the film&#8217;s expense.
Which leads to my biggest problem with the film: it&#8217;s actually decent. This is, of course, thanks in no small part to Scott Bairstow, who co-stars as a disgruntled ex-human fighter (of what, I&#8217;m not entirely sure) with a grudge against the robots, one of whom has just taken his job shoveling coal into the furnace (I think). For you see, in the future humankind is nearly extinct thanks to our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doom (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movies based on videogames. You have to wonder why they keep making them. For every successful attempt (&#8221;Tombraider&#8221; being the best example), there are a dozen carcasses left behind to warn those who would dare follow in their footsteps. Andrzej Bartkowiak&#8217;s &#8220;Doom&#8221; is based on an old PC game from the early &#8217;90s that proved popular enough to spawn numerous sequels, expansion packs, death matches, and mods (don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t know what any of these things are, it just means you&#8217;re not a PC gaming geek), and more recently, led to the creation of the &#8220;Quake&#8221; series of games. How exactly do the original &#8220;Doom&#8221; games translate into a movie? Not very well, as there&#8217;s nothing cinematic or story-driven about those games in the first place. To wit: you have a gun, you walk around, and you kill spawning demons. The end.
And so they made a movie out of Doom anyway. Is it any good? Not particularly. Former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Island (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the makers of &#8220;The Island&#8221; already decided that secrecy was pointless, as the film&#8217;s main draw depended on the audience being lured in by said plot device (and in truth, it&#8217;s the only decision they could have made), let&#8217;s dispense with the secrets, shall we? &#8220;The  Island  &#8221; is set in a futuristic world where clones are artificially bred and kept confined within a sterile environment where they are fed and kept healthy until their real-world counterparts need a body part from them. Or in some cases, until the clone women gives birth, after which the babies will be extracted and hand over to the loving couple that paid top dollar for the clone ($5 million per clone, apparently). As a way to keep the clones oblivious to their true purpose, the corporation has invented The Island, supposedly the &#8220;last pathogen-free place&#8221; in the world, the rest of the world having been &#8220;contaminated&#8221; and made unlivable. Of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serenity (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 21:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Movie Review by Alex Lui Fans of the now defunct science fiction show &#8220;Firefly&#8221; seems to be the main reason &#8220;Serenity&#8221; has reached the big screen at all. Cancelled in mid-season during its chaotic run on the FOX network, &#8220;Firefly&#8221; went straight from TV to DVD within a matter of months. Luckily for creator Joss Whedon (who also created the fan favorite and long running &#8220;Buffy the Vampire Slayer&#8221;) and fans of the show, DVD sales for &#8220;Firefly&#8221; went through the roof. Thus, in the   land  of  Hollywood   , this could only lead to one thing: a feature-length movie. Suffice to say, expectations were high and questions arose as to whether a two-hour movie could conclude (or continue) the series in an entertaining way. Surprisingly, even for a non-fan like myself, it does.   
&#8220;Firefly&#8221; begins with 17-year old telepath River (Summer Glau) being rescued by her brother, Simon (Sean Maher), from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lethal Target (1999) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2005 02:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I&#8217;m just a glutton for punishment. Take my DVD buying habits as a prime example. The DVD &#8220;Lethal Target&#8221; is why I hate buying movies I have never heard of, starring people I have never seen, and showcasing a box cover that looks much too good for a film this obscure. The film stars CC Costigan as Nikki Savage, a convict who gets a chance to shave some years off her sentence (she&#8217;s doing time for killing a bad cop, according to her) by doing some dirty work for the warden at her prison. The prison, incidentally, is some kind of mining base called Titan, or was it Titus? It doesn&#8217;t really matter, does it? 
Nikki is sent to a rogue spaceship that has been taken over by a doctor (Kim Dawson) experimenting in sex; Nikki is to retake control, and if she can&#8217;t, the ship will be destroyed with her on it! Although I&#8217;m confused why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar (aka Cyber Wars, 2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite better than expected special effects, there&#8217;s one thing the Singapore sci-fi flick &#8220;Avatar&#8221; can&#8217;t quite overcome &#8212; well, okay, there&#8217;s a lot of things, including stilted acting, awful dialogue, and most of all, a story that seems cobbled together from what seems like every American sci-fi film from the past 10 years. The film&#8217;s heroine is the improbably named Dash MacKenzie (Genevieve O&#8217;Reilly), a bounty hunter who she spends her time hunting down sim thieves or loaders or whatever it is the film&#8217;s fictional sci-fi universe calls them. To be honest, the movie throws so many made-up cyberpunk babble at you that it&#8217;s nearly impossible to keep up, and after a while you start to not care.
In any case, back to our protracted mish mash of a story. Dash is soon contracted by mega corporate bigwig Joseph Lau (a one-note David Warner, playing villainous to within an inch of its life) to hunt down an ex-employee who has something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War of the Worlds (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 03:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Tom Cruise fleeing giant mechanized alien tripods for most of &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221; is liable to confuse some viewers. Ethan Hunt wouldn&#8217;t run to his ex-wife so she can save the day; John Anderton would have slipped on his jetpack and gone to battle; and Maverick certainly wouldn&#8217;t be hauling ass in a hijacked mini-van. The film&#8217;s biggest problem is the decision to have it both ways. The filmmakers want the Everyman Tom, who flees the invasion, and the Action Hero Tom, who can dodge alien heat rays and exploding buildings when everyone else gets fried around him. It&#8217;s very much a case of wanting your cake and eating it, too.
Such is the Steven Spielberg mega budgeted &#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221;, a film that wants to be gritty and dark, but is nevertheless encumbered by the need to be trendy and &#8220;cool&#8221;. The movie follows the same narrative thrust as the smaller budgeted (as in, about $200 million [...]]]></description>
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