Tag: review
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Blog: Street Fightin Flicks
So with a new Street Fighter movie upon us is a good time to dip into the very large back catalogue of Street Fighter movies which stretches back over 30 years at this point. This is really all spawned from the megahit arcade game Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. It was one of the…
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The Nice Guys (2016 review)
4 outta 5 Written and directed by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man Three), The Nice Guys is a hilarious and entreatingly zippy piece of ‘70s noir detective buddy action comedy. As with noir detective stories sometimes a very simple whodunit plot gets overtly complicated but this is really an excuse to have…
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Companion
4 outta 5 Companion is a clever and subversive sci-fi horror thriller about romance, robots, murder and software manipulation. While the notion of someone falling in love with a robotic artificial intelligence has been done in films like Her or Ex Machina, this is still a distinct take. Companion is less about potential robotic apocalypse…
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Uglies
2 outta 5 Uglies is a YA novel adaptation that really doesn’t offer anything particularly good. It feels cobbled together from other sci-fi dystopian franchises and that bubble burst a few years ago. The central hook, that people in a dystopian future society undergo mandatory, mind-controlling cosmetic surgery, feels basic. Even the action, such as…
