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6 Dec 2009If Pandorum’s goal is to create another cult classic like Event Horizon, the finished product is far from perfect. Pandorum asks the audience to follow along a psychological thriller where the crew of the space ship Elysium awakens to deal with memory loss, hallucinations and creepy humanoid creatures. Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Corporal Bower [...]
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18 Oct 2009There are lots of movies featuring zombies (if you doubt that, you can look at the listing on Wikipedia), and Zombieland is one of the easiest to recommend comedic zombie films. The movie follows the story of Columbus, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who has avoided human contact as much as possible and now that an [...]
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1 Aug 2009Sacha Baron Cohen is Bruno, a disgraced gay fashion reporter from Austria that seeks fame in the United States through a series of staged and not-so-staged events, very reminiscent of his previous movie Borat.
The movie is pretty short (at just 80 minutes) but if you have an open mind, and realize Bruno is not [...]
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21 Jun 2009Nicolas Cage is in another movie where future predictions come true. In Next, Nicolas Cage could constantly see the future. In Knowing, he discovers a piece of paper that has been buried for 5 decades that can somehow predict all the major disasters, including the end of the world. He tries to prevent the disasters [...]
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2 Mar 2009The worst thing that a comedy could do is to make you bored, and Role Models certainly succeeded in boring me until the very end which was a recreated medieval pretend battle between warring “nations”. Of course, citing that as my highlight can tell you already how boring the rest of the movie was. The [...]
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18 Feb 2009The best way to describe Quarantine is by the movies it was inspired of. Think of this movie as I am Legend meet Cloverfield meet Blair Witch Project. The movie follows a TV reporter named Angela Vidal as the camera crew tags along a fire crew as they are called into action. They get to [...]
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13 Jan 2009I have to admit I never thought Saw could turn out to be a franchise generating movies every year, and if the latest is any indication, this franchise is due for a reboot. The movie is (still) the story of the Jigsaw killer who teaches people to value their own lives by offering them a [...]
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19 Dec 2008If you are a drama teacher at a local high school, and it was up to you to create a brand new play to save the art program, a sequel to Hamlet may not be your first choice. And this is exactly what happens in the movie Hamlet 2 featuring Steve Coogan and Catherine Keener. [...]