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Aftermath (2012) – a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
Nine survivors of an international nuclear war make their way to a cellar where they hope they can be relatively safe. Luckily, a…
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July 2014
NewsFilms
Particle Fever (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Back in the 1960s, people could appreciate and enjoy scientific accounts of the space program even if they did not understand all the…
NewsScifi
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) (film review – Mark’s take).
With a story that asks once again ‘why can’t we all get along?’ we have the special-effects-laden account of human epidemic survivors coming…
June 2014
NewsHorror
Rigor Mortis (2014) – a film review by Mark R. Leeper.
A victory of visual images over plotting, ‘Rigor Mortis’ is Hong Kong director Juno Mak’s premier film and a tribute to Hong Kong…
NewsFilms
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014) (film review by Mark R. Leeper).
The scientific complexities of this story may be of more interest than the plot itself. Wolverine is sent back in time to inhabit…
May 2014
NewsScifi
Godzilla (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Kaiju Noir. With the Japanese franchise on the King of the Monsters in hiatus, the Godzilla character is being loaned to Warner Brothers so that…
ReviewHorror
The Quiet Ones (2013) (film review).
The latest release from the new Hammer Films is an obscure horror thriller about a psychiatrist’s strange experiment to prove that what appears…
April 2014
NewsHorror
Retrospective: The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959).
From the heady, early days of Hammer Films’ most successful period comes this now rarely seen horror film. It is a remake of…
March 2014
NewsScifi
Mars (2010) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
When new life may or may not have been discovered by a robot probe on Mars, three very ordinary people are sent to…
NewsScifi
UWANTME2KILLHIM? (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Based on actual events, this is a story of how relationships under the influence of the Internet. Mark, who is a reasonably well-adjusted…
February 2014
NewsHorror
Odd Thomas (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Stephen Sommers writes, produces, and directs his adaptation of Dean Koontz’s novel of the same name. ‘Odd Thomas’ sees dead people. He also…
NewsFilms
The Lego Movie (2014) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller directing an animated cartoon based on Lego blocks does not seem like a really promising concept. There is…