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Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 5th, 2010 | View Comments

SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE review: better than the sum of its parts

In a strange parallel universe in which glassy-eyed women are attractive and hockey actually matters, a terminal loser by the name of Kirk Kettner (white, male, straight, annoying) is asked out on a date by Molly McCleish (white, female, straight, wears very supportive bras) and can’t believe his luck. In many ways She’s Out Of My League follows the rom-com formula like a sleepwalking...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 1st, 2010 | View Comments

CLASH OF THE TITANS review: pantheon this

  Okay, I need to make another up-front disclaimer: I find Greek mythology strangely compelling. For some reason the monsters, characters, creatures, symbolism and setting seem inherently interesting to me. I mean, the medusa’s gaze is sufficiently frightening even before giving her snakes for hair — it’s those little extra touches that tell of the wild imaginations of those nutty old...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 29th, 2010 | View Comments

GREEN ZONE review: no country for good men

The War in Iraq, since its inception seven years ago, has become the butt of a dozen jokes, to the point that you don’t even have to make a joke about it any more; merely mentioning the War in Iraq is a punchline in itself, reminding listeners that America dropped the ball bigtime, and the rest of the world isn’t happy with it. While the War on Islam (euphemised “terror”) in...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 19th, 2010 | View Comments

COP OUT pays homage, misfires

How often can someone let you down before you just plain give up on them? Kevin Smith, I get you, brother. I dig the way you go about your business, speak your mind and eat whatever you fucking well want, but goddamn it, you can make it hard to be a fan of yours sometimes. I’ve done so well to not name this review with a predictably clever swipe at the title Cop Out. It wasn’t all that bad. Yet I...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 10th, 2010 | View Comments

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: ’twas not brillig

Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not a fan of Tim Burton’s. I don’t find beauty in his ubiqutous and heavy-handed grotesque art style, I don’t think twisted dead trees scream “ROMANTIC DARKNESS,” I don’t dig women’s choirs yelling “LALA LALA LALA LALA” accompanied by high-pitched strings, and I don’t believe that the paler the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 7th, 2010 | View Comments

THE BLIND SIDE: Hollywood’s default setting

Ordinarily, getting my wife to watch a film with me simply because I state: “it’s supposed to be really good, it’s up for an Oscar!” isn’t enough to get her keen on viewing it. She has good reason to doubt my judgement, and once you’ve done the house duties and put the kiddies to sleep, what precious time you have left in the evening should not be spent on a dud film. In...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 5th, 2010 | View Comments

MEMENTO review: holy short-term memory loss, Batman

Christopher Nolan is best known for his Bat-films, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight; big, heavy, dark comic book movies that have captured the hearts and wallets of a generation of moviegoers. But once upon a time, before Christian Bale gargled gravel and donned the bat cowl, Christopher Nolan made a little film called Memento. It’s a mind-bending post-noir psychological thrillery affair, as well as a...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Summer review round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly

Way back in the beginning of December, in our first week of existence, I posted a list of the five most anticipated films of the summer. Now that it is officially autumn (even if the weather obstinately refuses to accept this incontravertible truth), it’s the perfect time to look back over the past three months and put the summer releases in perspective. There were a few surprises, some hits and some...
Posted by Robin Hare on Feb 25th, 2010 | View Comments

TREKKIES review: celebrating geekiness

If you think Star Trek is ‘lame’ or ‘uncool’ then you are still manacled to the ball-and-chain of high-school mentality populararity contests, and should probably go back to listening to Green Day and reading Harry Potter and watching Avatar, you soulless humbug. Star Trek is a forty-year-old institution, a supporting pillar of modern pop culture, and beyond being a hideously outdated...
Posted by JonBoy on Feb 24th, 2010 | View Comments

UP secures both Best Animated Film and Best Picture nominations and it totally deserves it.

[Writer's note:  This review was originally written when Up was in theatrical release and my thoughts on it haven’t changed since then.  I’m thrilled to see it nominated for both best animated feature and best picture at the Academy awards.  When reading over this, I found it funny that I compared it to District 9 and Inglourious Basterds in quality, both of which have also been nominated for best...
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