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Review by b-mask : April 30, 2013
Those expecting the same old antics of the previous two Iron Man films will find the rug pulled from their feet- and whether or not they enjoy that sensation, it's sure to say that it has generated some very interesting dicsussion- and this is but one of those explorations.
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Review by B-mask : April 23, 2013
Base sentimentality is rife in this film, something the original film, when it did do it, performed it far more genuinely. The Oz franchise is sorely under-utilized, but if you want to see what the series is capable of, read the books.
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Review by b-mask : December 13, 2012
With Wreck it Ralph not out in British theatres til February, B-mask has to settle for Rise of the Guardians- with mildly disappointing results.
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Review by B-mask : November 19, 2012
James Bond returns in the highly anticipated Skyfall, but does the movie hold up to the immense hype? Regular brit B-mask jumps in to express his thoughts on the matter.
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Review by Kenny Farino : November 8, 2012
"Wreck-It Ralph" gets so much right when it comes to how it presented its story, the character arcs , and even how they handled their gratuitous cameos from already-existing video game characters. It was able to build its own self-contained world in a way where it really was something to behold, and the story was fresh and original. Truly, this is this generation's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 30, 2012
Silent Hill Revelation is a movie that you should absolutely avoid with prejudice. This movie flopped for a reason
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Review by vivvav : August 31, 2012
When I started this review, I went in aiming to tear the movie a new one, based on my initial unimpressed reaction while watching it. But the more I started thinking about the movie, the more I found I liked about it.
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Review by b-mask : July 27, 2012
Another opinion on the Webslingers new venture- what does longtime Spidey fan B-mask make of it?
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Review by LaughingMan : July 26, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises, the last in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy is long, over-the-top, predictable, political and simply amazing.
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Review by Kenny Farino : July 12, 2012
After seeing The Amazing Spider-Man, what did Kenny Farino think of it? Was it superior to the Sam Raimi Trilogy, or does it leave another dark smudge on Spidey's movie track record?
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Review by Kenny Farino : May 12, 2012
While Godzilla is mainly known as a movie series about monsters beating each other up, Gojira (1954) is a cautionary tale about the horrors of atomic weapons, and the suffering and destruction that they bring. This is a haunting movie, and this review will tell you why you should give it a watch.
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Review by LaughingMan : May 9, 2012
Does LaughingMan, an avid Three Stooges fan, think that the 2012 film delivers on the nyucks, or is it a painful poke in the eye?
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Review by b-mask : May 1, 2012
The Marvel universe finally comes together, but does it live up to the hype? B-mask uses the early British release date to explain it all!
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Review by b-mask : March 29, 2012
"The Pirates" may have some minor hitches, but this is a comedy you won't want to miss! Jump in to see the details on this little british gem.
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Review by Kenny Farino : February 25, 2012
After the whole thing was over, I played a little make-believe and pretended that I was the badass himself, roaring down the road at ludicrous speeds and chaining evil to death... that is until I was pulled over and arrested... again. Anyway, I think that acts as a good lead-in to what I thought of the movie, yeah? No? Well it was really fucking good!
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Review by LaughingMan : February 22, 2012
The most shocking part of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is that the skeletal Ghost Rider acts less like a walking corpse than Nicholas Cage playing Johnny Blaze.
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Review by CineMax : October 31, 2011
Cheshire Cat Studios' Obscure Movie Month: 2011 Edition draws to a close with CineMax's review of Bruce Lee Fight Back from the Grave - one of the most shameless and offensive films in the history of cinema. Not in the way you'd think, though.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 31, 2011
The Thing (2011) is a very worthy successor to John Carpenter's The Thing. Is it as good as the 1982 classic? No, but it's pretty damn close! Fans of the original film should really give this a chance because the attention to detail, the tension, and the obvious love for Carpenter's classic makes this prequel outshine any other contrived, uninspired horror reboot by a mile! I highly recommend The Thing (2011), so get out there and scare yourself silly!
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Review by LaughingMan : October 31, 2011
The Changeling (1980) starring George C. Scott is easily one of the most atmospheric haunted house movies ever made, and even after multiple viewings it still manages to send chills down my spine.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 14, 2011
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison is a poorly made documentary that may fool those not versed in the Beatles career, but for fans it is a slap to the face.
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Review by LaughingMan : October 4, 2011
While not the most sophisticated or hilarious science fiction comedy I've ever seen, Spaced Invaders is neither condescending nor outright annoying, but is instead genuinely fun for even adults.
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Review by LaughingMan : July 30, 2011
Cowboys & Aliens not a good movie, and in ways you wouldn't expect.
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Review by CineMax : May 29, 2011
In his newest review, CineMax elaborates on why the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film is nothing more than a rushed unimaginative cash-in, as well as (not so kindly) asks the film studios to give this senile and depleted cash-cow of a franchise its well-deserved rest.
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Review by CineMax : April 18, 2011
CineMax regretfully expresses his concern about the future of Mortal Kombat: Legacy.
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Review by LaughingMan : April 12, 2011
In contrast to the brilliant Mortal Kombat Rebirth viral trailer, the first episode of Mortal Kombat Legacy is walking on a razor's edge.
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Review by Neuroplay : March 21, 2011
As soon as the credits to Paul roll there is a kind of tentative relationship with the genres like the X-Files and Close Encounters, but it changes focus almost immediately into a playful romp through science fiction and nerdlore.
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Review by ONOE : January 27, 2011
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is a magical blend of stunning cinematography, shocking surrealism, and beautiful choreography that demonstrates not only the excellence of Kurosawa's vision and his skill as a writer and a director, but Dreams celebrates life and man's place in nature.
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Review by LaughingMan : January 22, 2011
Edgar Allen Poe's: The Haunted Palace is a Vincent Price film that is Edgar Allen Poe in name only and is instead loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
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Review by CineMax : January 11, 2011
A sci-fi movie that had an interesting premise and a few promising ideas, but failed to combine them into a comprehensible and compelling story at the end.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 17, 2010
If Kickassia deserves to be on the IMDB, then it deserves to be put under the microscope in the same fashion that the TGWTG crew do to the movies they review.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 26, 2010
A Town Called Panic is an overall entertaining little French film that, despite being slightly ADHD, is very cute, humorous, and perfect as a family film. Seriously, stop buying bullshit like Spongebob Squarepants or stuff found on Cartoon Network for your children and make them watch a genuinely good film that doesn't patronize them into a stupid coma. This is also good for adults because it has humor they will appreciate, so parents and children can both enjoy A Town Called Panic! It reminds me of older cartoons that used to air like Rocko's Modern Life because those also tried to be for grownups, slipping in subtle humor that would fly over the kiddie's heads so parents could still have a good time while letting their kids watch cartoons they could like.
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Review by LaughingMan : August 17, 2010
Ms. 45 is an 1981 low-budget exploitation film that takes some obvious cues from the Charles Bronson classic revenge film, Death Wish. However, the main difference between Death Wish and Ms. 45 is the overall theme where instead of a wronged man killing the criminal scum in cold blood, it's a wronged woman killing... well, just men in general. I am tempted to say that she kills sleazeballs and cleans up the streets but... no.
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Review by RITOS : August 11, 2010
You would think that what would ensue would be a complete buttfucking of the Purple Dragons with a whole can of Turtle Power but something is really fucking wrong. The 1980's cartoon Ninja Turtles are making dumb jokes, and Raphael is always breaking the 4th wall by making wisecracks to the camera. And what the fuck is this? The new turtles are the only ones that are ever 'fighting' enemies while the classic ones are downgraded to THROWING GARBAGE CANS?
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Review by ONOE : August 4, 2010
Harakiri falls into the realm of drama and Shakespearean Tragedy than most conventional samurai movies, which can be a turn off to some. But because of its effectiveness, I endorse this movie as a great piece of Japanese cinema and I believe that if you can enjoy the great films by Akira Kurosawa, then Masaki Kobayashi's "Harakiri" will not disappoint.
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Review by Chuckysin : July 14, 2010
M. Night made a few mistakes: He tried to make The Last Airbender his own and failed. He tried to stay close to the source material but drifted off way too much. He spent a lot of time in explanations and telling things without saying anything at all, which is classic Shamalamadingdong so it was expected. I would have liked to see him spend a bit more time on the film, add an additional 30 minutes so it didn't feel so rushed and to actually create the characters.
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Review by RITOS : May 8, 2010
The new Nightmare movie takes the logical approach by starting fresh with the first film and without the laughable mythology elements of being the mentally abused son of a woman who was raped by 1000 maniacs, living a normal life until killing his wife and mentally scarring his daughter, being burned alive but becoming a dream demon thanks to three dream tadpole spirits that come with their own 3D glasses, which in the end is nothing but a story within a story of the real life actors and Wes Craven. So yeah, they start with the first of the only three Nightmare movies that make any fucking sense. But hey it is better than fighting psychics, being resurrected by lightning, hopping a cruise ship to Manhattan, and fighting androids with rubber detachable nipples in space. I'm looking at YOU Jason Vorhees.
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Review by Chuckysin : March 6, 2010
You have three essential characters to this film, first and foremost is Percy Jackson, son of the god Poseidon. Second is the romantic interest, Annabeth, the daughter of Athena, and Grover the protector who just happens to be half donkey, oh excuse me goat, he is a satyr. Now my problem is not with the acting I honestly think the kids that did the acting did a fair job, my issue was with the character development, or lack of character development. They rushed so much to get to the special effects and the fights that they left out the key points of why are the characters the way they are, why you should relate to them or cheer them on. You simply just watch the film, watch the actors do their bit and really have no shred of caring for the character. Percy in the books is actually a very in depth kid, and you can relate to him even as an adult because you most likely felt many of the things that he feels, therefore, you establish a soft of pseudo bond with him. The movie just rushes past that. Leaving you feeling a little confused and empty.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 28, 2009
Starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and directed by Stuart Gordon ("Dreams In The Witch House" of Masters of Horror), "Re-Animator" is about a mad scientist who comes to Miskatonic University to continue his studies and experiments on bringing the dead back to life, thus the title. He soon drags his unwitting friend Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), a fellow student, into his experiments, and everything goes to hell in a hand basket faster than Obama's approval rating. What? What did I say? Anyway, the downsides of Dr. West's experiments that causes everything to go to hell in an instant is the fact that if the corpses aren't revived right after they have died, the risen are reduced to extremely violent zombies, which causes more and more chaos as the film goes on.
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Review by RITOS : December 23, 2009
The Na'vi are a Furry's wet-dream (ie: a 'Furry' is someone who gets off on humanoid animals. Let that haunt your nightmares suckers). You have these tall, blue, half-people half-cat aliens that look even more anorexic than both of the Olson Twins combined but still manage to have a decent set of tits. And of course, to bring the message home that these are very 'Native' peoples who are in tune with the earth, every damned one of them is wearing nothing more than a leather loin-cloth and maybe a beaded bra. Talk about 'Au Natural'. But the part of Avatar that threw my suspension of disbelief out the window was the way that the Na'vi use their pony-tails to interact with nature. Flying monsters, trees, and even dead ancestors, they connect their hair to whatever they want to communicate with just like a fucking computer keyboard.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 23, 2009
Avatar's story may be identical to "Dances with Wolves" or others, but the way this was told was in such a way that kept my attention; the story was simple enough to understand but didn't treat the audience like idiots, and the appeal actually reminded me of other James Cameron movies like "Terminator 2". This movie had a certain humor about it, but it also told its story in a fun and emotional way. For the first time in a while, I actually gave a crap about the characters who were presented to me, and the actors really helped give this movie a certain quality that one could hardly feel in most modern films like, to use as an example again, "2012". In "Avatar," you had a range of different personalities that added a charm to the movie, whereas in "2012," most or all of the characters are interchangeable with each other, and you could easily forget about any of them in an instant.
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Review by LaughingMan : December 14, 2009
Set in the early 1900's, There Will Be Blood loosely based on the book "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair. The movie begins with 15 minutes of watching the meager and dangerous beginnings of Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), and his start as an oil prospector. The first 15 minutes is silent, save for a few grunts and groans from when Plainview falls into a shaft and breaks his leg. You watch as Plainview builds his first crude oil derek, and how he adopts the orphaned son of one of the workers killed in a drilling accident. While this sounds extremely dry (and this movie may be boring to action junkies like myself) my ADHD eyes were fixated on what was probably one of the best silent performances I've seen for a long while. The ability to adequately tell a story without a single word is truly remarkable in this day and age; however finding an audience that will appreciate it is even more amazing.
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Review by Kenny Farino : December 7, 2009
There is something very interesting to consider: while the SAW sequels have gotten gorier and gorier, while the story has become more and more convoluted, the first SAW movie actually had very little, if any, shown violence... wait, what? Yeah, SAW actually started off extremely tame in the way of gore. "But Kenny," you ask, this joke obviously stolen from Zero Punctuation ohgoddonthuntmedown, "how was the movie interesting without the GORE?" Well, SAW was actually very deeply rooted in a much older sub-genre of horror, suspense. The first SAW had much less gore, and much more suspense, and as a result I could actually watch this movie without covering my eyes! I watched the first film last night, and I thought it would be appropriate to review it, seeing as Halloween, and another sequel, draw closer.
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Review by Kenny Farino : October 5, 2009
Halloween 2 is beyond help, and I'm only going to sound like many other reviewers when I say that Rob Zombie has made the opposite of Citizen Kane. Halloween 2 is worse than Twilight, Repo! The Genetic Opera, and all other torture porns in existence. This was a waste of the $8 dollars I paid to see it, and t was a waste of an evening. I spent an entire week ranting about this to my friends, and it was for a very good reason.
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Review by Kenny Farino : September 30, 2009
It's a mess. Some people seem to love this, but you won't find me calling myself a fan. I was told this was a great movie by so many deviantART people, but then my college friends told me it sucked. I went into REPO! The Genetic Opera expecting to hate it, and I was pleasantly surprised... in which I was absolutely right in my expectations! With emotionally retarded characters, terrible music, and a story that's incredibly confusing, not to mention being very poorly made in the process, this big fat train crash.
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Review by RITOS : August 16, 2009
When I first saw Transformers 1 in theaters, I was bored as all hell. I sat in the theater for the first hour and a half thinking to myself, "Why the hell did I pay $10 to watch retarded kids climbing trees, dogs with bling, parents that are more annoying and anal than my own, and a teen drama between a skinny geek and a hot girl who can't act?" The stupidity of the Transformers playing fucking hide-and-seek with Sam's parents was the moment my childhood shattered and fell to the sticky theater floor. There was nothing that would redeem that steaming piece of shit... Until badass fight towards the end between the Decepticons and the Autobots (as brief and completely out of focus as they were). Others commented that "If the movie had more fighting and less teen drama crap it would be better."
Careful what you wish for because Transformers 2 is the opposite extreme: All fighting sprinkled with the stupid comedy-relief characters and annoying jokes that I hated from the first movie.
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Review by Kenny Farino : November 30, 1999
In 2005, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society decided to undertake the tasks of adapting one of the most unadaptable stories into a film, emulating the movie-style of the time that The Call of Cthulhu was written. This means that the HPLHS emulated the style of the silent film, using a technology called "Mythoscope" to create something that feels that it came straight out of the 1920's! This comes complete with custom title cards and its own symphonic score. They were hoping to create "the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted" (the back of the DVD). Did they succeed?
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