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Into the Storm movie review: all wet

Fri, Aug 22, 2014
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A movie to make you despair of the found-footage conceit (if you weren’t already). Suddenly Twister looks like Shakespeare.

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no Transformers review from me today (but it and more reviews are coming over the weekend)

Fri, Jun 27, 2014
15 comments

Including Snowpiercer! (Which I had to cheat a little to get access to.)

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Stalingrad review: life among the ruins

Thu, Feb 20, 2014
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Russia’s first 3D IMAX spectacle is visually intense, but I never warmed to a story meant to be about human resilience.

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RoboCop trailer: does no one have a new idea? anyone?

Mon, Sep 09, 2013
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This may be “the future of American justice,” but it is the past of American filmmaking.

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feel the rush of endorkins (Star Trek Into Darkness review)

Wed, May 08, 2013
106 comments

A Star Trek for our times. Very much for our times. Which means there’s little hope to be found here…

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Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?

Fri, Apr 12, 2013
23 comments

Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.

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question of the day: What film trends do you love, and which do you hate?

Mon, Nov 12, 2012
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Shaky cam? Found footage? Superheroes? Crossdressing? Nicholas Sparks adapations? Let it all out…

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London photo of the day: oh, did you want to see the IMAX without the Triffids?

Thu, Oct 25, 2012
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Lest yesterday’s photo mislead you as to what the building housing Britain’s largest movie screen looks like, here it is again.

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London photo of the day: Triffids attack the BFI IMAX!

Thu, Oct 25, 2012
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Oops, my mistake: it’s just ivy growing across the top of the below-street-level entrance of the Southbank cinema.

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Paranormal Activity 4 (review)

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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It’s the Where’s Waldo of spooky stories. (Where’s the ghost? Find the ghost!) But much less fun.

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