Category Archives: Reviews

FRANKENWEENIE [PREVIEW]

Posted on October 22, 2012 by H D Thompson

Tim Burton returns to the short film he made in 1984, with feature length claymation fable, Frankenweenie. It’s family friendly Frankenstein, as a science genius boy resurrects his dog after it gets tragically killed. There is the fight between science … Continue reading →

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SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED [REVIEW]

Posted on October 17, 2012 by H D Thompson

What if you felt a bit weird about yourself, like you were drifting on another plane to everyone else and there was no one to tether you down, would you jump at the chance to find that tether, or would … Continue reading →

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LOOPER [REVIEW]

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Elizabeth Flux

It’s 2044 and Joe crouches in a Kansas field practising his French as he waits for a man from the future to appear. He checks his pocket watch and slowly stands, gun ready. Time travel hasn’t been invented yet, but … Continue reading →

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LORE [REVIEW]

Posted on September 29, 2012 by H D Thompson

It was always going to be a hard slog for director Cate Shortland to make a film about Nazi guilt, but for me this film couldn’t have been more perfect. The holocaust was a bad thing, a very, very bad thing… but … Continue reading →

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RUBY SPARKS [REVIEW]

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Adam vanLangenberg

Calvin Weir-Fields is a genius, just don’t say that to his face. At the tender age of 19 he wrote a novel which quickly became a best-seller, establishing him as an Author Of Note™. Unfortunately for Calvin and his many … Continue reading →

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