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Before I really get into this review I have to let off some steam. Noth­ing against this movie at all really but it’s a shame that films like this can do well while really good ones like Scott Pil­grim are on life sup­port, in terms of box office num­bers. That is an argu­ment for a dif­fer­ent arti­cle but I had to put it out there. The other thing is that if you needed any fur­ther proof that 3D is absolutely unnec­es­sary and a waste of a gim­mick then you really need to see this movie. When the high­light of your 3D effects is a dig­i­tally ren­dered, dis­mem­bered penis being torn apart, eaten and burped up to float out at the audi­ence, well…that one pretty much speaks for itself, doesn’t it?

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Cast
Michael Cera … Scott Pil­grim
Ali­son Pill … Kim Pine
Mark Web­ber … Stephen Stills
Johnny Sim­mons … Young Neil
Ellen Wong … Knives Chau
Kieran Culkin … Wal­lace Wells
Anna Kendrick … Stacey Pil­grim
Mary Eliz­a­beth Win­stead … Ramona Flow­ers
Chris Evans … Lucas Lee
Mae Whit­man … Roxy Richter
Bran­don Routh … Todd Ingram
Jason Schwartz­man … Gideon Gor­don Graves

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Finally the movie adap­ta­tion to the cult graphic novel hit is here to rock our socks off. Releas­ing just in time to fin­ish off the sum­mer along with The Expend­ables, will this film be worth the tokens required to play, or will it be KO’ed by the new chal­lenger? How will this hold up as an adap­ta­tion for a graphic novel that’s essen­tially an action-packed gamer’s wet dream? Click through for my take on the prod­uct of awk­ward Michael Cera and the crew behind the British zom­bie hit Shaun of the Dead.

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Good news every­one, Incep­tion is a fresh idea in the fes­ter­ing sea of remade and recy­cled garbage that we call the 2010 movie sea­son. The not so great news is that it does not live up to its hype. Now there are those who will say “Oh you didn’t like it because you didn’t under­stand the depth and com­plex­ity of what was going on.” Those peo­ple should be sum­mar­ily slapped in the mouth by the dead hand of Rick James. Incep­tion is a good movie; it is not a great movie. It is very straight­for­ward in what it wants to accom­plish, but it runs into a lot of prob­lems in its execution.

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Ah, remakes…you all know how I feel about remakes. But my mother asked to see this movie as part of her birth­day cel­e­bra­tion so it was inevitable that this was one I would put money on. Let’s not for­get that this par­tic­u­lar remake is based on part of the 1940 clas­sic, Fan­ta­sia. How­ever ridicu­lous that sounds, One should not count out The Sorcerer’s Appren­tice as it is a very enjoy­able film, espe­cially for fam­ily view­ing. While I wouldn’t call it a buddy movie, Dis­ney man­ages a rel­a­tively solid film by pair­ing Nic Cage and Jay Baruchel. (con­tinue reading…)

God was lis­ten­ing to me rage last night and gave me a real birth­day present – Hol­ly­wood seems to have remem­bered those two pieces of gen­i­talia that had long since receded back inside itself. Let’s just hope the dan­gling trend con­tin­ues. Eve­lyn Salt is hot – I’m not even talk­ing about the per­pet­ual boner Angelina Jolie has been giv­ing me since Hack­ers, this char­ac­ter is a woman to watch. Imag­ine Tomb Raider…if it hadn’t sucked. Now imag­ine Tomb Raider if it were an awe­some movie, throw in some Jason Bourne and a tinge of Daniel Craig’s Bond and you have Eve­lyn Salt. If she were a man, she’d be capa­ble of with­stand­ing worse tor­ture than Bond did in Casino Royale (any man, straight or not, knows what I mean). If she were a machine, both the T-1000 and the T-X would be her lit­tle bitches and she’d be wear­ing John Connor’s skull around her neck like Fla­vor Flav wears clocks. You never, ever want to be on this chick’s bad side and that fact made for a very good action-based drama. (con­tinue reading…)

Check out this guest review/post from Ant. Ant is a long time MTR sup­porter who has decided to share his review with the MTR fans. Share your thoughts in the com­ments section-Rich

Tonight, I watched Preda­tor for the first time in a cou­ple of years. I for­got that it wasn’t just a meat head action movie. It was a mys­tery film action movie with a per­fect amount of pac­ing. The first thing you see is some­thing fly past Earth and some­thing drop out of it towards Earth. A safe bet would be that some­thing alien came to Earth. Imme­di­ately after that we get a light-hearted entrance into a very human sce­nario which is very Rambo like. This goes on for a good deal of time while we learn about the human char­ac­ters and see that some­thing hor­ri­ble is hap­pen­ing. You almost for­get that glimpse of some­thing alien in the begin­ning and become drawn into the mys­tery of the hor­rors. You don’t even see the alien mon­ster that is hunt­ing our main char­ac­ters one by one until 3/4 of the way through, and from then on its go time and you don’t get enough of the alien’s in your face killing spree.

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Directed By: Joe John­ston
Lawrence Tal­bot – Beni­cio Del Toro

Sir John Tal­bot – Anthony Hopkins

Gwen Con­liffe – Emily Blunt

Inspec­tor Abber­line- Hugo Weav­ing

“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolf­bane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.”

This quote has been syn­ony­mous with the Wolf­man since the leg­endary Lon Chaney brought this iconic uni­ver­sal mon­ster to life. As a hor­ror movie buff I have always tried to see all the clas­sics and the Wolf­man has always been my favorite. While Franken­stein was a tra­jic tale and Drac­ula was evil per­son­i­fied to me the Wolf­man was more of a guy at the wrong place at the wrong time and was cursed for it. This newest incar­na­tion of the Wolf­man main­tained that aspect and added a bit more depth as well.

Story:

Much like the iconic 1941 clas­sic this ver­sion fol­lows Lawrence Talbot(Del Toro) who is return­ing home to inves­ti­gate the death of his brother at the request of his wife (Blunt). Reunited with his estranged and dis­tant father (Hop­kins), Lawrence pro­ceeds to start his inves­ti­ga­tion and along the way sort out his demons as well which are cru­cial to the story. His inves­ti­ga­tion leads him to a gypsy camp where a gypsy mys­tic informs him that an evil force was respon­si­ble for his brother’s death. It is here where are given a glimpse of the wolf which pro­ceeds to slaugh­ter every­one in the gypsy camp and of course bites Talbot.

After Talbot’s attack and mirac­u­los recov­ery we are intro­duced to Abber­line ( Weav­ing) who is an inspec­tor for Scot­land Yard and is try­ing to uncover the mys­tery to all these mur­ders. Abber­line sus­pects Talbot’s involve­ment given his past which I won’t spoil and pro­ceeds to have him arrested after his first trans­for­ma­tion. After the first trans­for­ma­tion is when the film goes from remake to estab­lish­ing itself as a reimag­in­ing and does a fine job with gen­uine thrills and some real graphic kills.

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Oh no, here we go with another comic book movie. Wait a minute, it’s not about any estab­lished Mar­vel or DC char­ac­ter and it is not a remake (about the first no-remake this year); maybe this one has hope. In fact, it has way more than hope—Kick-Ass does exactly what its title sug­gests. The premise is beyond sim­ple: just about every kid pre­tended to be a super­hero as a kid and plenty of adults wish they could do some­thing about the things they see on the news and in the streets. Kick-Ass is about an ordi­nary high school kid who has no spe­cial pow­ers and has no money for cool Bat­man gad­gets who decides to make a dif­fer­ence. By him­self he is not going to accom­plish much and he real­ized that: enter Red Mist, Big Daddy and Hit Girl, who round out our cast of vig­i­lantes. Obvi­ously I am going to tell you why, but you need to see this flick. You shouldn’t even be read­ing this…you should be out watch­ing this movie—go…NOW!

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Before you read Josh’s review I’d like to give you a bit of back story. This review is writ­ten in response to Slick’s recent review of Avatar.Slick and Josh have very dif­fer­ent opin­ions and while both are in fact accu­rate assess­ments it’s seems that the read­ers deserve both view­points. Check them both out and share you thoughts in the com­ments below –Rich

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