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March 23, 2018April 5, 2018

PACIFIC RIM UPRISING [Review]: Prepare For Titanfall.

Pacific Rim seemed like the type of blockbuster film that was designed not to be successful. It was specifically aimed towards fans of giant monster films and fell nearly $90 million short of breaking even domestically. The film went on to make over $300 million overseas and its success in foreign waters is the main …

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March 13, 2018

TOMB RAIDER [Movie Review]: Finally! A Good Video Game Movie.

"MONSIGNOR" TRAVIS MOODY: [First off, I must applaud any studio that gives film critics free popcorn before a screening. That there's an automatic extra 0.25 bibles!] All joking aside, Tomb Raider is a terrific popcorn movie and super faithful to the source material. It's almost funny, even, since a gentleman at the theater bar asked …

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February 26, 2018March 3, 2019

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST [Review]: Homunculus Hogwash.

Fumihiko Sori, director of the live action adaptation of Ping Pong and the Zatoichi inspired film Ichi, set out to make the live-action version of Fullmetal Alchemist a visual spectacle. Sori utilized technology that is new to Japan in an effort to make Japanese CGI more prominent. Sori wanted his version of FMA to be …

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February 23, 2018February 23, 2018

MUTE [Review]: Sex Robots and Sea Horses.

I wrote an article ages ago, sometime after Moon in 2009 and Source Code in 2011 but long before the 2016 release of Warcraft, which teased writer and director Duncan Jones' vision for Mute. At the time, all we had was a handful of concept art and some story ideas. Jones had envisioned making Mute …

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February 22, 2018February 22, 2018

ANNIHILATION [Review]: Shimmy Shimmy.. Ya?

DEREK DIVINE: Annihilation is one of those famous instances when watching a film where the explanation of the threat is all you can keep thinking about. As Annihilation keeps going deeper and deeper into the mystery of “The Shimmer”, it’s the prime ingredient to holding your attention. Life's made a little easier, though, with the …

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February 14, 2018

CHRIS CLAREMONT’S X-MEN [Review]: Forever Ours.

Now on Video-On-Demand, Chris Claremont's X-Men is a breezy, light conversation and recollection of writer Chris Claremont, speaking of his early days at Marvel in the mid-1970s, and his refurbishing of the then-defunct X-Men comics. Shot mostly as a talking-heads-style sit-down interview, the documentary is an expansion of a 30 minute documentary by Patrick Meaney, …

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