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P2
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:295 ]
Review: P2 suffers from a lack of any real threat as a cat-and-mouse game ensues after a businesswoman is trapped in a parking garage on Christmas Eve.. Our damsel in distress, Angela Bridges runs around a parking garage trying to find an exit. The problem is that her aggressor isn’t threatening enough. When he’s got her to himself, he treats her like a prized possession. Thomas treats her like a lady and is willing to go to extremes in protecting her. This means that Angela will probably be safe as...
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Paradise Stop
[ Hits:252 ]
Review: Paradise Stop is a fun movie from the same team that brought us the hilarious South African comedy, White Wedding. This time, acting duo, Rapulana Seiphemo and Kenneth Nkosi, have banded with writer-director Jann Turner again to form the core unit behind Paradise Stop a crime comedy caper set against the backdrop of a truck stop in a sleepy little Limpopo town in South Africa. Paradise Stop, a truck stop on the northern border linking cargo-carrying 16-wheelers from South Africa to Zimbabwe is t...
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Paranormal Activity
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:638 ]
Review: Paranormal Activity is the quintessential sleeper hit... not only has this indie horror gem been out for a few years, it's all about what goes on when you're sleeping. The film starts without any credits, opting for a title screen where Paramount thanks the San Diego police department and families of Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston for allowing them to broadcast the film. The premise of reality horror, a $15,000 low budget, 10 day shooting schedule and unprecedented box office success instantl...
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Paranormal Activity 3
[ Hits:173 ]
Review: Paranormal Activity 3 continues the low budget horror series created by Oren Peli. The new chapter is a prequel, taking us back to the '80s, where we learn where, how and why Katie's haunting started. Critically-acclaimed Catfish filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman direct what could very well be the best Paranormal Activity yet.
We're taken back to footage of Katie's life before the "demon". Her mother's live-in boyfriend is a freelance videographer and editor who stumbles upon some stra...
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:240 ]
Review: Paul Blart: Mall Cop is an action, comedy with a touch of damsel-in-distress romance, starring Kevin James as Paul Blart. He’s a mall cop, who takes his job too seriously and his love life is on the rocks. The movie has all the feel-good elements of a typical Happy Madison production with old tunes, the game of love and plenty of laughs. However, Paul Blart: Mall Cop isn’t typical Adam Sandler territory, it functions like a Die Hard parody with a touch of Home Alone and Airheads. Kevin James...
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Perfect Stranger
[ 2007 ] [ Hits:538 ]
Review: Perfect Stranger was filmed with three alternative endings in mind and this is its Achilles Heel. The movie is sleek, the story is intriguing and the cast is incredible. Halle Berry takes the lead as Rowena Price, a beautiful journalist who goes undercover to bring a high-powered advertising executive (Willis) to justice with the help of her techno-savvy friend (Ribisi). She clashes with Harrison Hill, when she discovers that he has ties to the murder of her best friend. Hill wields a top advert...
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Piranha
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:438 ]
Review: Piranha 3D falls into the so-bad-it's-almost-good category of films. Joe Dante directed Piranha in 1978, a Roger Corman produced camp horror B-movie in the slipstream of the Steven Spielberg's Jaws. Alexandre Aja lends a level of credibility to the camp goings-on in this remake, since he's a member of the Splat Pack and directed the critically acclaimed gore-fest horror remake that is The Hills Have Eyes. Piranha is best described as a blend of Jaws, Girls Gone Wild and Joe's Apartment. Now de...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
[ Hits:390 ]
Review: Blackbeard, Barbarossa, Captain Kidd and Davy Jones would’ve rolled in their sea graves if they’d known fictional pirates like Long John Silver, Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow would become more famous than them. Well, as real as Keith Richards is… he’s no pirate – not the way we think at least! Johnny Depp’s famous pirate characterisation of the legendary Rolling Stones rocker has become probably the most iconic pirate in history after the rollicking success of theme park ri...
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Please Give
[ Hits:400 ]
Review: Please Give starts with a series of boobs... breasts, jugs, chesticles etc. It's quite an introduction for a coming-of-age comedy drama with Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet. Now this isn't a flattering set of shots, but more of a flattening one as ordinary breasts are compressed for mammograms. Is it justified exposure... the jury is still out and this intro ranks alongside A Touch of Spice, that spicy Greek film that starts with a baby breastfeeding on a full-screen...
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:257 ]
Review: Precious is the story of an overweight, illiterate 16-year-old girl who, pregnant with her second child enrolls at an alternate school to point her life in a new direction. The title character, Precious, played by Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe in her debut role, leads a troubled life as a teen shackled by sexual, physical and verbal abuse. Her size, teen pregnancy and abusive mother, played to perfection by Mo'Nique, hold her back from reaching her dreams. However, she pushes on... fighting for a bett...
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Predators
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:410 ]
Review: Predators is a sequel to Predator and Predator 2. Since it's no longer cool to add a number to denote how many times a blockbuster has been exploited, unless you're going straight to video or you're a superhero... it gets the imaginative reworking, Predators. Now it's been a good 23 years since Arnie busted a Predator's chops in the original and in that time we've also seen a spin-off, AVP: Alien vs. Predator with its own sequel. Predator has become a Hollywood icon thanks to the late special ef...
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Priest
[ Hits:324 ]
Review: Love or hate them, priests have always been contentious public figures. Fire and brimstone sermons, dipping into the church coffers or abusing children... the stigma of being a priest almost overshadows the religious and sacred duties associated with the holy role. Although, any mediator between mortal man and a deity is going to be subjected to a witch hunt and there's bound to be some hypocrisy... they're only human. So when the trial by fire has been called off and the priest has proved worth...
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
[ 2010 ] [ Hits:431 ]
Review: Prince of Persia was one of the most exciting and addictive PC games of its time. The side-scrolling video game was released by Broderbund in 1989 and attracted players with its life-like motion, swordplay and intelligent puzzles, despite its repetitive look. The nameless character from another land was charged to rescue the princess from the clutches of the evil Jaffar, the Vizier of Persia. From there, the game has evolved into a 3D action platform courtesy of Ubisoft, starting the franchise w...
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Public Enemies
[ 2009 ] [ Hits:383 ]
Review: Public Enemy was one of the film's that ironically cemented Jimmy Cagney in the old Hollywood. His performance as Tom Powers was extraordinary and marked the rise of the crime genre and of the legend of Cagney. This is what Public Enemies is missing... a powerhouse performance that delivers substance, backbone and true gangster grit beyond the rattle of the tommy gun. While Public Enemies is competent, solid, action-packed entertainment with a fine cast, based on an intriguing true story with to...
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Puss in Boots
[ Hits:60 ]
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Spin-offs are a risky affair which can either pay off in spades or lead to an annoying mob of disgruntled movie franchise fans. The answers to important questions like “How similar do we keep the spin-off?”, “How much of the original cast should return?” and so forth always has a huge impact on the new venture’s success. In the case of ‘Puss in Boots’, director Chris Miller (Shrek 4, Shrek 3, Shrek 2) seems to have had all the right answers, as his latest addition to the Shrek le...
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