Tag: Movie Reviews
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Star Trek Beyond (2016 review)
4 outta 5 Having been around for hundreds of episodes, thirteen movies and five decades, Star Trek has had various different takes. The most recent movie, Star Trek Beyond, instead of trying to sum 50 years it goes back to basics for a classical, fun Star Trek story. While director J.J. Abrams didn’t return (he…
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013 review)
5 outta 5 Some may pontificate as to what exactly constitutes Star Trek, this is right, that is not, but any and all genres can and do exist in Star Trek. What J.J. Abrams and his “Bad Robot” production company have done is take Star Trek and reinvent it as a chase movie, but there…
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Star Trek (2009 review)
5 outta 5 Director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is a grand summer action flick that re-introduces Star Trek’s iconic characters to the world. It shows origins of the original Trek series, but changes thing around just enough so you won’t see what’s coming. That aside, the movie is a ridiculous amount of fun. With the…
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Ad Vitam
2 outta 5 Ad Vitam is a Netflix French Language action thriller that is considerably short on action or thrills, but those do arrive eventually. The most interesting stuff happens at the start and then a very long exposition flashback that drags into awkward police romance, and then some solid action at the end. In…
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Best of 2024 Films
Honourable Mentions: The Substance, Transformers One, The Fall Guy, Furisoa: A Mad Max Saga, Kinds of Kindness, Alien: Romulus, Saturday Night, Venom: The Last Dance, Gladiator II, Civil War 10. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story A documentary about the life of actor and activist Christopher Reeve, that bounces between two distinct phases of his life;…
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (’14 review)
4 outta 5 Now that it’s done the decision to split one novel, The Hobbit, into three movies was an interesting choice but never reached the heights of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Hobbit makes for a somewhat requisite but entertaining prequel as the finale The Battle of the Five Armies folds elegantly…
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (’13 review)
4 outta 5 While one may debate the logic in expanding a single novel of The Hobbit into three plus sized movies, even when one is drawing from as dense a writer as J.R.R. Tolkien, there is comfortable enjoyment in returning to the same world that Director Peter Jackson has immersed himself and the audience…
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (’12 review)
4 outta 5 If you were a fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy you’d have to be rather jaded to walk out of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, part 1 of the prequel trilogy to Lord of the Rings, and think that it doesn’t fit perfectly well into the established series. Fans of…
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Kraven The Hunter
3 outta 5 Kraven The Hunter is the latest, and potentially final, attempt by Sony Pictures to spin off various Spider-Man characters into their own franchise, without actually using the webbed wall-crawler himself. The Venom series has been consistently fun and wacky throughout all three installments, although it has been more mixed (to say politely)…
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Nutcrackers
4 outta 5 Nutcrackers is one of those comedies about a busy working guy who, for various reasons, must learn to settle down as they inherit guardianship of rambunctious children, which has been done many, many times before. Now Nutcrackers may not get many points for originality, but it does have a sort of chaotic…
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