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| Book Review - A Clockwork Orange (1962) |
August 28, 2008 @ 9:03 PM |
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 Perhaps a defining work in transgressional fiction; Burgess' dystopian prediction of a future Britain rife with crime perpetrated by the increasingly violent younger
generation... [Read
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| DVD Review - The Skull (1965) |
August 27, 2008 @ 7:44 PM |
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 Worth a look for the performances, and for watching a film from the time when special effects and naked teenagers being killed for having sex didn't rule the horror
roost... [Read
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| DVD Review - Death Note V01 (2006) |
August 27, 2008 @ 6:58 PM |
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 The rules in the book are simple: write the name of a person, whose face you can picture, and how they will die, and 40 seconds later that will be their fate.... [Read
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| DVD Review - Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
August 24, 2008 @ 5:32 PM |
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 Milla "Oh God, I've never wanted to be a motorbike seat so much in my life" Jovovich looks phenomenal, the action scenes are first class, the fun is without parallel. Watch it and have a giggle. Basically, big dumb fun... [Read
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| DVD Review - Asylum (2007) |
August 23, 2008 @ 1:55 PM |
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 A haunted asylum, a bunch of students, a few deaths…you've seen it all before, so do you really need to see it again? Let's hope Ellis was merely saving his creativity for the fourth instalment of the Final Destination series … [Read
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| DVD Review - Grizzly Park (2008) |
August 22, 2008 @ 6:51 PM |
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 The first bear scene is worth checking the movie out for, and the final kill is amusing, but otherwise there aren't a lot of strong points here… [Read
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| DVD Review - Eyes Without a Face (1960) |
August 22, 2008 @ 5:04 PM |
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 Loyalty, morality, hubris, humanity, identity – that's what Eyes Without A Face is really all about. The horror element is merely enjoyable and entertaining … [Read
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| Book Review - The Informers (1994) |
August 22, 2008 @ 4:02 PM |
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 How the Hell do you follow up something like American Psycho? Bret Easton Ellis was faced with this momentous task and, perhaps with uncharacteristic predictability, the follow-up was underwhelming... [Read
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| DVD Review - Shogun Assassin (1980) |
August 20, 2008 @ 9:20 PM |
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 A pretty perfect distillation of the first two Lone Wolf and Cub films, this bad boy takes all of the violence and nastiness, and re-edits them into something much different to the original movies… [Read
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| DVD Review - Destricted (2006) |
August 20, 2008 @ 8:47 PM |
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 What's immediately noticeable about Destricted is, obviously, the hardcore sex, and even the more liberal-minded of cinemagoers should have little trouble calling this a porno film... [Read
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