Pacific Rim: Rock ’em Sock ’em Blockbuster
Pacific Rim, the first notch on Guillermo Del Toro’s directorial belt since 2008’s Hellboy II, is a straight-faced pastiche of all the oversized CGI scifi behemoths you’ve ever seen.
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Author: Charley Darbo
RIP Richard Matheson: Godfather of the Undead
Richard Matheson, who died yesterday at 87, was a master of dystopian paranoia, but always managed to imbue his stories with a streak of hope and heroism.
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…and Then You Die: the femme fatale of film noir
You make one lousy mistake—hide one lousy body from the cops and drive off in his car—and there she is, like an avenging apparition materialized from a roadside dustdevil: Retribution in heels.
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Best Show on Netflix? "Top of the Lake" [Streamers]
The great Jane Campion (The Piano, Angel at My Table) has created a stunning piece of longform storytelling. Robin Griffin (Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss, with a flawless NZ accent) is a young detective on leave. . . .
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Trailer Trash: “Now You See Me”
I really wanted to like this movie. I read a brief interview with the director, Louis “The Terrier” Le Terrier, in which he described his impatience with being known as an “action” director (two Transporter movies, Clash of the Titans) and his patience in awaiting his chance to direct a movie that would show his real strengths as an artist. Well this ain’t it. At least I hope not. If Now You See Me turns out to be anything like the trailer portrays it, I hope for Le Terrier’s sake—for all our sakes—that he still has better stuff ahead of him.
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