Law Abiding Citizen (review)
It had me at *kaboom,* this thorny moral conundrum of a film, and then it lost me when it threw out all the tricksy pointedness in favor of thoughtless, counterproductive badassery.
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‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Children of Earth: Day Four”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen ALL five episodes of *Children of Earth*!
Zombieland movie review: dead funny
Kinda sorta Shaun of the Dead done up American style, so instead of cricket bats as weapons and jokes about tea, it’s shotguns as anti-zombie devices and a quest to find the last Twinkie.
The Baader Meinhof Complex (review)
Oh, what a riveting mess!
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Children of Earth: Day Three”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen ALL five episodes of *Children of Earth*!
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie review: special sauce
Treats the charming nonsense of food falling from the sky like weather with exactly the sort of bouyant nimbleness it deserves…
9 (review)
Imagine if Jules Verne wrote a movie for Pixar, if that steampunk visionary looked forward from his perch in the late Victorian age to a Great War in his near future that didn’t pause for twenty years to let everyone to catch their breath but instead went apocalyptic.
Sleep Dealer (review)
Made on the cheap compared to Hollywood flicks, this thrillingly original and heartfelt Mexican film is a truly human story about the impact of technology on individuals and on society.
Gamer (review)
It’s visually incomprehensible, emotionally empty, thematically nihilistic, almost entirely plotless… and it thinks those are virtues.
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Children of Earth: Day Two”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen ALL five episodes of *Children of Earth*!
