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Imax Geekery, or how to see Star Wars as nature intended...
Someone made the mistake of letting me have preview tickets to the latest Mission Impossible back in the summer... ostensibly in Imax ( Read more... ) -
The Guest, and harking back to the classics
To be fair, there's not a lot of stuff sitting at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, and even fewer of those are deliriously trashy horror thrillers. Even the supremely awesome You're Next is way down at 74%, so.... it's not like I didn't go into The Guest with expectations. That it then got described as 'imagine the Terminator moved in with Sarah Connor, ( Read more... ) -
Motive... and it was all going so well
Motive is one of those shows that sneak up on you. I ended up being reluctantly charmed by the first series, and then this year, it's become one of the few things I actively looked forward to every week. And that's basically the combination of Angie (who is rarely Not Awesome, but spent a lot of this series looking more unsure of herself), Angie ( Read more... ) -
PacRim, way back when
It felt a bit churlish, at one point, to criticise Pacific Rim - after all, I drove everyone I know demented over the last few months before it came out about how it was going to the Best. Film. Ever. And it was, kind of. For a little while ( Read more... ) -
World War Z
I.. really can't bring myself to copy Trailer Guy and pronounce it 'World War Zee'. Just can't, dammit.
Having said that, there's a lot to recommend spending a couple of hours watching Brad Pitt jet around the world with great difficulty trying to solve the Zombie Apocalypse. This isn't Brad in full-on charm mode, or even particularly acting. If ( Read more... ) -
Once (is probably enough)
I admit my first reaction to finding out that Once, my all time favourite indie mumblecore almost-romance with awesome music, was being adapted into a stage musical was mostly bewilderment. This is not a film you watch roaming around random Dublin locations being filmed with shaky-cam and think damn this needs to be a show. But I'll also admit I ( Read more... ) -
Cloud Atlas, if the spirit moves you
See, it's barely even worth writing about Cloud Atlas, if only because the only thing you can say relates to how it made you feel. And it either makes you feel, or it makes you feel like you can't believe you just wasted the last three hours sitting though such a monumental dose of batshit crazy. I will say I've happily sat through it twice and ( Read more... ) -
Dredd. Just because.
Obviously I do watch other films. Like, somewhere around 60 films at the cinema last year (that's not even counting multiple trips to see Avengers. And Dredd. And TDKR) because I splurged on LFF quite a lot. So the fact that I'm still going on about Dredd after nearly six months is, um, significant ( Read more... ) -
London Film Festival 2012: Overdoing it a tad.
I've done the LFF for quite a few years now (I'm thinking since 2004, because Mirrormask was the first one I saw, and that would tie in nicely to seeing a clip beforehand at SDCC in 2004. I think.). And I've been building up the number of films I see each year, around and about actually trying to work for a living dammit.
But this year - hell, this ( Read more... ) -
Oh Ponds...
I don't even know... On one level there was major, major heartrendingness, and yet I never actually tipped over into crying.
[exceedingly very spoilery ramblings for DW 7x5]
Well, ok, this is because River was still around, and that was such a rare bird this season that it actually outweighed the Ponds being... Angeled? So I cared, I really did, but we've been Ponded out for the past few eps, ( Read more... )