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In the year 2293, lesser humans called Brutals farm the decrepit Earth to feed the Eternals, who live forever in the luxurious Vortex. Until one day, Sean Connery (in his […]
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Top of the Flops 5: 47 Ronin
Following in the footsteps of Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves plays an inexplicable samurai in 47 Ronin. “Woah dude, I’m in Japan…” According to Wikipedia, this is the biggest box office […]
Top of the Flops 3: The Lone Ranger
In a big screen adaptation of the classic TV series, Armie Hammer plays the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp plays his friend Tonto, a Native American stereotype. The stereotyping of Tonto […]
Top of the Flops 2: Waterworld
“The future… The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth with water. Those who survived have adapted, to a new world.” So begins sci-fi/adventure/Kevin Costner movie Waterworld, one of […]
Top of the Flops: John Carter
Welcome to the first in a new series of reviews where we look back at some of the biggest box office flops in history to decide if they really deserved […]
High Fidelity
High Fidelity follows a grumpy record store owner as he talks us through all his breakups with non-stop music references. And like Barry Manilow, it turns out not to live up to its […]
Block-heads
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy play Stan Laurel and Oliver hardy, a pair of soldiers in World War One. But when the war ends, no-one tells Stan, and 20 years […]
Boys
Set in either a boys boarding school or some sort of facility for guys with curtain haircuts, Boys is a 1996 film in which Lukas Haas finds Winona Ryder unconscious in […]
The Fly II
The Fly II opens with a birth similar to the gruesome dream sequence in the original, but this time it’s for real and it’s the offspring of the original mad […]
Mystery Team
Mystery Team is the big-screen outing of internet sketch trio Derrick Comedy – Dominic Dierkes, DC Pierson and Donald Glover (who wrote for 30 Rock, starred in Community and makes music as Childish Gambino). […]
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