Fantasy
The Dark Crystal
On our sudden Jim Henson themed run we look at the rather odd and not particularly great “The Dark Crystal”. One of the first all-puppet-no-people films to hit the big screen. While it does have some good points they are seriously overshadowed by some major failings throughout. 26 mins
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Troll Hunter
We often give “found footage” movie a hard time. Most times they come off as cheap, rushed and lazy. The biggest criticism being “why is the bloody camera still running during all of this!?”. Troll Hunter is a rare gem. It uses the shaky-cam effect to further the films atmosphere; detract you from the less…
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Season of the Witch
There are many movies starring Nic Cage that are bad, this isn’t a new thing. The suprise of this movie is that it’s bad bad. Other than casting there is nothing to like about this movie. Which is a shame really because a team-up between Ghost Rider (Nic Cage) and Hellboy (Ron Perlman) should really…
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Man of Steel
Against his better judgement, Andrew decided that he wanted to talk (on the Internet, no less) about the superhero movie responsible for perhaps the most flame wars in recent memory. Accordingly, our discussion of 2013’s Man of Steel was decidedly conflicted. 46 mins
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Van Helsing
Both Andrew and I were pretty big fans of this movie when we were younger. That made the disappointment all the worse during the revisit to this childhood favourite. It’s still ok in places but overall it isn’t as good as we remembered. 39 mins
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Reign of Fire
When a hoard of ferocious fire breathing dragons emerge from deep within the earth only King Leonidas, Batman and Rust Cohle can stop them. This to-the-point movie is full of massive plot holes but regardless is great to watch. 35 mins
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What Dreams may come
We do seem to really favour Robin Williams movies. This week we tackle a movie that is both uplifting and mildly depressing in very different ways. A fantastic story if not a bit odd and confusing in places. 45 mins
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Cool World
Once again studio politics crush another great story. This disaster of a movie is the remnants of what could have been an incredible story. There are few attributes of this movie that we couldpraise. 44mins
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The last laugh (1924)