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Go For Sisters (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
John Sayles wrote and directed this crime drama, ‘Go For Sisters’, set around the California-Mexico border. Two women and a disgraced cop look for…
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December 2013
NewsFantasy
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Avid moviegoers are once again reacquainted with the imaginative scope of J.R.R. Tolkien’s festive wonderworld in writer-director Peter Jackson’s frenetic follow-up to ‘The…
NewsFilms
Actor Peter O’Toole dies.
Sad news drifts in that the actor Peter O’Toole has died in hospital today at 81. He was best known for non-science fiction…
TrailerScifi
Edge of Tomorrow… movie trailer with Tom Cruise.
Edge of Tomorrow is the new Tom Cruise sci-fi actioner and here’s the first big trailer for it. Looks like a near-future blend…
NewsHorror
Godzilla! Will this movie be . . . monster?
First full-sized trailer for the new Godzilla film. Apologies to Gareth Edwards, better known for his movie Monsters, for the punnage, but if…
ReviewHorror
Gaslight (1940) dual-format DVD/Blu-ray (DVD review).
Just out from the BFI we’ve got the dual-format edition of the movie ‘Gaslight’. This is the British black and white version made…
ReviewHorror
The Phantom of the Opera (1929) dual-format edition, DVD + Blu-ray (DVD review).
Last time I watched a silent movie was way back in the 60s and think it was Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’. This made…
NewsScifi
Jupiter Ascending… fantasy or scifi?
Here’s a rarity, a science fiction film not based on a comic, book or game, original(ish) from the Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers.…
NewsFantasy
Frozen (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) (2013).
You might not notice it, but ‘Frozen’ has a more complex and interesting plot than most Disney animation films do. The chief conflict…
NewsScifi
The Last Days on Mars (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Filmmaker Ruairi Robinson’s derivative danger-in-space sci-fi thriller ‘The Days On Mars’ not only sports an uneventful movie title but lacks any distinctive pizzazz to its…
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Spider-man 2… not everyone has a happy ending.
Here’s the first full trailer for the Spider-man 2 movie. Lots of enemies and web-slinging action, it seems!
NewsFilms
All Is Lost (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Survivalist tales at the movies are kind of tricky to execute because you are basically asking the audience to invest in a lone…