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The Creator movie review: meat versus metal

Wed, Oct 04, 2023

Looks great, but the plot falls apart if you poke it and makes no attempt to grapple with AI’s potential. Instead it renders its robot people as a racialized Other in a clunky metaphor for bigotry.

weekend watchlist: country twang with a Scottish accent

Mon, Jul 11, 2022

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Plus a soothing science-fiction horror and a scathing not-at-all satire that helps explain Boris Johnson. (First published June 11th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)

Terminator: Dark Fate movie review: it’s back… and we don’t know why

Wed, Oct 30, 2019

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Fight the future. Change the future. Watch the future reset itself so that everything ends up much the same way anyway. Repeat. This time-travelling franchise is, ironically, stuck in the past.

Alita: Battle Angel movie review: ‘Rollerblade Runner’ with a Strong Female Character(TM)

Wed, Feb 13, 2019

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Devoid of personality and soul, this hellish Frankenstein monster of processed entertainment product wallows in a stew of borrowed ideas and imagery and does absolutely nothing fresh with them.

Mortal Engines movie review: it’s got no rev

Thu, Dec 13, 2018

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Like the book it’s based on, the worldbuilding is intriguing, but the characters and story are strictly cliché. A lazy, confused, and derivative disaster, with plot points and visual and thematic motifs shamelessly stolen from far better movies.

Justice League movie review: grab ’em by the fanboy

Fri, Nov 17, 2017

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The cinematic equivalent of Trump and Brexit as awfulness brought upon ourselves. Incoherent and cheap-looking. There are no heroes, and everything is broken.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D movie review: he said he’d be back…

Tue, Aug 29, 2017

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An action masterpiece newly remastered in gorgeous 4K (and rejiggered for superfluous 3D) reveals how fresh it remains not only technically but thematically.

Terminator Genisys movie review: back from the future… again

Thu, Jul 02, 2015

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I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu. I have a terrible feeling of deja vu.