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Looper (2012)
It’s the year 2044. Time travel has yet to be invented but, evidently, it soon will. Joe Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a Looper, a mob assassin with a particularly niche speciality in despatching targets, already bound and hooded, sent from … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Horror, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Time Travel
Tagged Brick, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, future, Gordon-Levitt, Grandfather, Looper, older self, paradox, Rainmaker, Rian, Time Travel
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**Audio Commentary!** Revolution – Series 1, Episode 1.
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article pre-emptively complaining about Revolution, the new post-apocalyptic drama that premièred on NBC last night. Having now finally seen a full episode of the show, I thought it fun to do a … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, fantasy, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction
Tagged Abrams, Favreau, Pilot, Revolution
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Four Reasons Why ‘Revolution’ is Annoying
This is annoying. I was initially reluctant to talk about the upcoming NBC sci-fi serial drama Revolution, primarily as it’s not out in America until the autumn and goodness knows when it’ll hit the UK. Any criticism would either become … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Horror, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Television
Tagged J.J. Abrams, Jon Favreau, NBC, Revolution
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) – A Beano comic come to life.
Based on the series of all-ages novels by Gideon Defoe (who also has a writing credit on the movie), The Pirates! In an Adventure With Scientists tells the story of The Pirate Captain and his band of similarly literally-monikered cohorts. … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Comedy, fantasy, Film, Popular Culture, Review
Tagged Aardman, Charles Darwin, David Tennant, Hugh Grant, Pirates, Queen Victoria, Scientists, Sony
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Prelude To A Kiss (1992)
“The world is a really terrible place. It’s too…..precarious” Based on the 1988 play by Craig Lucas and directed by Norman René, it tells the story of a straight-laced publishing employee Peter Hoskins (Alec Baldwin) who falls in love with … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, fantasy, Film, Navel Gazing, Popular Culture, Review, Uncategorized
Tagged 1992, Alec Baldwin, Craig Lucas, Kathy Bates, Meg Ryan, Ned Beatty, Norman René, Patty Duke, Prelude To A Kiss, Stanley Tucci, Sydney Walker
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Near Dark (1987)
Before vindicating her career with the success of 2009′s The Hurt Locker (and further capitalising with the rather ominous-sounding Untitled Osama Bin Laden Project), director Kathryn Bigalow was perhaps best known for marrying James Cameron and, somewhat more charitably, the … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Horror, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Vampires
Tagged Adam Greenberg, Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton, blu-ray, Diamondback, Hooker, James Cameron, Jenette Goldstein, Jenny Wright, Kathryn Bigalow, Lance Henriksen, Near Dark, Severen, True Blood, Twilight, Vampire
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Super 8 (2011)
It’s the summer of 1979. In a suitably sleepy Ohio suburb, a group of school-kids that include our recently-bereaved protagonist Joe (Joel Courtney), form an amateur film crew and set out to work on a zombie movie. After witnessing a … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction
Tagged Amblin, Bad Robot, Elle Fanning, JJ Abrams, Joel Courtney, Spielberg, Super 8
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The Grand Tour (1992)
According to IMDB, this initially went under the name of ‘Timescape’ and missed out on a cinema release, but was retitled ‘Grand Tour: Disaster in Time’ for the home video market. I’ll admit to being sceptical of this, as A: … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Film, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Television, Time Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged 1992, Ariana Richards, Ben Wilson, C.L Moore, David N Twohy, Disaster in Time, George Murdock, Grandfather Paradox, Jeff Daniels, Judge Caldwell, Lawrence O'Donnell, Madame Iovine, Pitch Black, The Grand Tour, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Time Travel, Timescape, Vintage Season
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The Dead Island Trailer And Video Games As ‘Art’
This trailer for Dead Island, a zombie survival horror game set on a remote holiday resort, is not only already a viral success but the chief inspiration for an in-development Dead Island movie ( http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/115/1151065p1.html ). According to this article, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, fantasy, Film, Horror, Popular Culture, Review, science fiction, Video Games, zombies
Tagged Dead Island, Decap Attack, Final Fantasy, Heavy Rain, IGN, Kid Chameleon, LA Noire, Mario, Memento, reverse, Rockstar, trailer, Uncharted 2, Video Games, zombies
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