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MIFFF Short Films Reviews
One of the coolest things about the Maelstrom International Fantastic Movie Festival is the shorts program. There were an absurd number of them, almost fifty, broken up into genre-specific chunks—a fantasy, animation, horror, and...
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010) Movie Review
Japanese “Space Battleship Yamato”, based upon the classic 1974 anime television series, hit the big screens in 2010 as a massive blockbuster release, boasting an all star cast and extensive special effects work to...
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Movie Review
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is not meant to be a prequel to the original “Planet of the Apes” movies (or the 2001 remake); it is a reboot, and the ending that...
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Another Earth (2011) Movie Review
“Another Earth” starts off with an interesting enough, if completely ridiculous premise. Scientists have found a heretofore-unnoticed planet, an exact replica of Earth to be exact, hiding behind the moon, and the movie attempts...
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Flesh Wounds (2011) Movie Review
I’m typically pretty forgiving of most direct-to-video action movies. I can easily overlook shoddy acting, weak special effects, watered-down fight scenes, and illogical scripting as long as the entertainment factor is present and accounted...
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Attack The Block (2011) Movie Review
What would happen if aliens invaded a tough London neighborhood populated by rough and tumble street kids who are used to scrapping and fighting for everything they have? The answer, at least in Joe...
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Cowboys and Aliens (2011) Movie Review
“Cowboys & Aliens”, director Jon Favreau’s latest high-budget venture, opens in a bleak but picturesque New Mexico landscape in the 1870’s, and a dazed cowboy (Daniel Craig) notices a peculiar electronic bracelet affixed to...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Doctor Who — Series 6, Part 1
Doctor Who finally comes to America — literally — in Series 6, which finds the good Doctor’s BBC overlords deciding that yes, there were enough fans in the States to justify not only bringing...
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) Movie Review
Spunky human hero Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) returns to save the day for the third time alongside his Autobot buddies, led by big rig badass Optimus Prime. Now out of college (courtesy of a...
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Super 8 (2011) Movie Review
In a day and age where movie trailers (not to mention all those clips) give away everything including the kitchen sink and the family dog in hopes you’ll honor it with the purchase of...
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) Movie Review
With the upcoming release of Warner Brothers and DC Comics’ big screen outing of “Green Lantern” about to hit theaters it only makes sense that they would have a direct-to-DVD animated film to get...
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Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010) Movie Review
Japanese author Tsutsui Yasutaka’s eternally popular 1967 sci-fi romance novel ‘Toki wo Kakeru Shojo’ receives another screen outing with “Time Traveller, the Girl who leapt through Time”. This latest version was produced with full...
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New on Blu-Ray Book: The Terminator (1984)
Fans of James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi masterpiece about a futuristic war between mankind and machines fought in the present day (or 1984, anyway) no doubt already has this movie in various formats released over...
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TV Review: TNT’s Falling Skies
What’s your least favorite part of any good alien invasion movie? It’s gotta be the first 20-30 minutes waiting for the invasion to start, where we are forced to “get to know” a slew...
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Source Code (2011) Movie Review
Air Force pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is having a bad day. He’s woken onboard a Chicago commuter train sitting opposite the pretty Christina (Michelle Monaghan), in a train car full of suspicious passengers,...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Skyline (2010)
“Skyline”, from the brothers Strause, has the distinction of being the first Hollywood-backed studio alien invasion movie in what is quickly becoming a tidal wave of similar genre efforts to touch down in theaters....
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Battle: Los Angeles (2011) Movie Review
Over the years movies have taught many important lessons, chief among these are don’t retire, never retire, nothing good will come of it. Everyone knows that the moment you announce you’re about to retire...
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I Am Number Four (2011) Movie Review
Teen angst, this is my friend, aliens. Aliens, meet my old pal, teen angst. That’s how I imagine the introductions going if, you know, teen angst and aliens were actual people. There are all...
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New on DVD/Blu-ray: Inception (2010)
How do you top a film like “The Dark Knight”, which made an obscene amount of money and was both a critical and commercial juggernaut? If you’re Christopher Nolan, you write and direct a...
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009) Movie Review
Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto’s delirious 2009 sci-fi actioner “Tetsuo: The Bullet Man” is, if nothing else, one hell of a ride. The film is a dizzying, disorienting, and frequently maddening experience, and it’s certainly...
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