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Monthly Archives: October 2016

The Passion of the Christ

October 31, 2016by Dan Meier 4 Comments

As it’s Halloween, we take a look at The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s 2004 retelling of the crucifixion story. This Christian propaganda horror movie consists 30 minutes of set-up, […]

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Friday Night Lights

October 26, 2016by Dan Meier 2 Comments

Having recently watched all 5 seasons of Friday Night Lights in what I can only assume is record time, I went back to the 2004 movie that predicated this excellent TV show. This […]

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Doctor Strange

October 25, 2016by Alex Chafey 1 Comment

It’s the fourteenth outing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I think!) and we’re now well into relatively unknown ‘second tier’ superheroes. Next on the list of ‘properties we haven’t used […]

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Despicable Me

October 25, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Incompetent super-villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the Moon, in order to prove his criminal mastermind credentials to his evil peers and disparaging mother. Although it uses ideas familiar from Pixar’s The Incredibles and Joss […]

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I, Daniel Blake

October 24, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

British realism stalwarts Ken Loach and Paul Laverty reunite for I, Daniel Blake, a forceful, timely drama about a carpenter (Dave Johns) deemed “fit for work” following a heart attack, despite contradictory warnings from his […]

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Bullitt

October 23, 2016by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Bullitt is an early example of the great tradition of giving your main character an exciting-sounding-if-preposterous last name so you can use it as the title of the film. In […]

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The Infiltrator

October 22, 2016by Alex Chafey Leave a comment

Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur, a crazy dad who gets deep into the world of drug dealing and organised crime, so he’s in familiar territory, but this time plays an […]

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Blood Father

October 20, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

I remember hearing a story about one of Mel Gibson’s parenting tactics. He’d put dummy heads (from film sets) on spikes, and when his daughter’s boyfriends came to pick her up, he’d […]

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The Crappening

October 14, 2016by Dan Meier 2 Comments

M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening opens with promise. Mass suicides mysteriously occur across the East Coast. Builders fall from scaffolding en masse like 100 Madonnas at the Brits. New Yorkers in Central Park suddenly stop […]

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My Scientology Movie

October 13, 2016by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Documentarian and falsetto singer Louis Theroux takes to the big screen with this investigation into the Church of Scientology. We’re reviewing this documentary between us in order to confuse the squirrel-busters. An […]

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