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Battle: Los Angeles [ Hits:1734 ]
Review: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? It's Wednesday - so it must be an alien invasion. Alien invasions have become even more commonplace than UFO sightings in Hollywood. Just over the last few years, there's been a resurgence in alien interest - spurred on by the success of movies like Cloverfield, Transformers, District 9 and Avatar. Although some would also say that the phenomenon never left pop culture with TV series like The X-Files, 4400, Invasion, Roswell and Stargate dotting the t...

The Race ist [ 2010 ] [ Hits:1032 ]
Review: The Race-ist... a title joke and car mod subculture is extended into a "feel good" feature film trailing in the dust of The Fast & The Furious, Days of Thunder and yes, even Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby - complete with action, comedy and drama. After watching The Race-ist it's easy to see the connection: movies are just like vehicle modifications, if they're cheap and not fitted properly - they tend to fail miserably. As Proudly South African as I am, I wouldn't be able to recomme...

Inception [ 2010 ] [ Hits:618 ]
Review: in-cep-tion [in-sep-shuh n] noun - beginning; start; commencement.When Christopher Nolan releases a movie the world stops and takes notice... The director started making films when he was just seven-years-old and 33 years down the line he's still doing what he loves with only several feature length films to date. A short filmography by Hollywood standards, but when you consider Stanley Kubrick only made 16 films in 5 decades it puts Nolan's career in perspective. Just like Kubrick, Nolan's films...

Iron Man 2 [ 2010 ] [ Hits:547 ]
Review: Iron Man set the bar high with a well-balanced action adventure about an unlikely self-made superhero in Tony Stark. The classic character discovery is a strong platform for any film to form a foundation and Iron Man played it like it was second nature, drawing audiences in against the terrorists and then swiveling the enemy right back on itself, while maintaining a tongue-in-cheek character at the helm and a majestic performance from Robert Downey Jr. Well, for the most part... nothing's change...

Kick Ass [ 2010 ] [ Hits:541 ]
Review: The Kick-Ass comic book to film adaptation was inevitable. Come on, if Catwoman gets one, surely everyone's entitled to slap on some spandex and snarl? While you daydream about Halle Berry in a cat suit, you should know that her follow-up to that Oscar-whining "performance" in Monster's Balls is the equivalent of kitty litter and has nothing on Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns.Plain, simple and cheesy, Kick-Ass kicks ass. It's an instant comic book cult hit, a special blend of Watchmen, The P...

Red [ 2010 ] [ Hits:531 ]
Review: Stallone surprised us when he resurrected Rocky with Rocky Balboa, stunned us when he tied the red hair band on for John Rambo and nearly killed himself trying to make The Expendables. Broken neck aside... Stallone pulled it off - he made us believe with that sixty-something-year-old-six-pack, the big knives and ultra-violent action set pieces. Personally, I blame Harrison Ford for sparking the vicious trend that 60-something-year-olds can do their own stunts as he donned the fedora and whip onc...

Knight and Day [ 2010 ] [ Hits:512 ]
Review: Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are possibly the coldest on-screen Hollywood couple since Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters, may they rest in peace. Cruise has always been a little distant, giving that looking into the Sun gaze to the point that it’s become more of a glaze. What’s more, he’s embarrassed himself in the media so many times over the last few years that he’s literally become the village idiot of Tinseltown.Cameron Diaz is just as “fridge-ed”, last starring alongside Cruis...

Thor [ Hits:507 ]
Review: Thor is a joke. Who in their right minds would believe that a blonde muscular caped Scandinavian would possess super strength, the power of flight and run amok with a big old hammer whenever the sound of battle filled the air? It's funny to say that he's the odd one out, because the whole lot of underpants and lycra-clad superpower boys don't fit in. Not fitting in is a universal theme when it comes to being a superhero... even if you can swat cars and see through walls.Well, Thor - the movie ch...

The A Team [ 2010 ] [ Hits:485 ]
Review: Screw G.I. Joe, The A-Team are the quintessential All-American action heroes from the '80s... destined to be everybody's favourite crack commando squad of mercenaries from now until the end of time. I can tell... I had a Murdock action figure (don't judge me). Action, adventure, comedy and mild peril... The A-Team had it all and who can forget Hannibal Smith's wise-cracks, disguises and cigar-champing, B.A.'s ingenuity, mohawk and bling, Murdock's voices, madcap antics and crazy eyes or Faceman'...

Robin Hood [ 2010 ] [ Hits:484 ]
Review: Apparently, any film starring Russell Crowe and directed by Ridley Scott can’t go wrong. Having collaborated on Gladiator, A Good Year, American Gangster and Body of Lies, it’s safe to say they’ve got a winning formula. The film rides on the back of almost a century of Robin Hoods ranging from Robin Hood (1912) to this latest bankable venture from Crowe and Scott in 2010, aptly titled Robin Hood.Robin Hoods outnumber James Bonds in Hollywood with some of the most famous Hoods including: ...

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