You’re Next (2013)
Apr14

You’re Next (2013)

What’s the Opposite of Zen-like Calm? You’re Next (2013)   Home invasion movies…they seem to be everywhere at the moment.  So this time around I thought that I’d better find out where the term came from, because for the life of me I’d swear that I had never even heard it until recently. Well, they do say that a day when you don’t find out a new fact is a wasted day.  So colour me surprised when I discovered that the first recorded use...

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Thor: The Dark World
Apr05

Thor: The Dark World

Thor: The Dark World     “Long before the birth of Light, there was Darkness; and from that Darkness came the Dark Elves.  Millennia ago, the most ruthless of their kind—Malekith– sought to transform our Universe back to one of Eternal Night.” For a moment I thought that I had wandered into Lord of the Rings revisited.  Hearing words like ‘Dark Elves’ does that to me; but no.  I soon realized that it was Anthony...

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The Human Race (2013)
Apr05

The Human Race (2013)

I Don’t Dream Rainbows All the Time: The Human Race (2013)   It’s a bit of a curiosity, all right; but Paul Hough’s debut feature The Human Race is an interesting one. A blinding bright white light envelopes a group of around eighty people on a city street and when they open their eyes again they are in some sort of nondescript, but run-down, prison area.  That’s what it looks like, anyway.  The setting is relatively unimportant...

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