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You’d be hard-pressed to find a more apathetic actor right now than Sam Worthington, an Australian whose appearances in Terminator Salvation and the gazillion-dollar-grossing Avatar have inexplicably transformed him into Hollywood’s go-to guy for big-budget CGI extravaganzas, the latest being this adequately entertaining remake of the cheesy 1981 fantasy flick.

Under no circumstances should you confuse Repo Men with Repo Man. Sure, they both feature fair-haired actors whose characters repossess things for a living. But one is a fun cult flick from the ‘80s with Emilio Estevez. The one I’m reviewing here is a stale and somewhat repugnant sci-fi concoction starring Jude Law.
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Since her career’s inception, writing an erotic novel at age 17 that was then banned in France to those under the age of 18, director Catherine Breillat has explored our sexual nature and our need to be in control, like no other film maker. Coldly clinical analyses of human nature, like [...]

In director Tim Burton’s marvelous version of Alice in Wonderland, 6-year-old and very sleep-deprived Alice has continuing strange dreams of a white rabbit (Michael Sheen), a giant rabbit hole, a mad tea party, and plants and animals that can talk. About 13 years later, a less than enthusiastic Alice (Mia [...]

If Blade and Gattaca had a baby, it would be Daybreakers.
Set in a near future where most of the population are vampires with only a handful of humans to feed off, similar to the ratio of monkeys to humans in Planet of the Apes. A scientist at a giant corporation who [...]

The moment a sweet old lady with razor-sharp teeth started spewing obscenities and crawling on the ceiling, I knew I was in for a good time with Legion, an angels-at-war horror flick starring Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid that one could sum up as The Prophecy meets Assault On Precinct [...]

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson mocked his massive self to decent effect in 2008’s The Game Plan, and does so again in The Tooth Fairy, a similarly innocuous but amusing piece of family fluff that nonetheless suffers whenever the big guy isn’t dressed in tights and sporting wings.

As cinematic geniuses go, Terry Gilliam has had a particularly cluttered, and often unlucky, career. Remarkably, one can point to Time Bandits or 12 Monkeys as among the most coherent and accessible of the filmmaker’s works. But even his most awkward and arcane pieces have something interesting to say or [...]

It’s a peculiar thing to review a movie that has grossed enough money to launch the space shuttle twice or to build a complete Virginia-class nuclear fast attack submarine. Is there actually a point in doing so? If I say it’s overrated will that stop anyone from renting it? If I [...]

I’m going to level with you. This alien abduction thriller starring Milla Jovovich purports to be based on real reports, but it’s really just Fire in the Sky meets The Blair Witch Project, a remarkably convincing but completely fictional tale that effectively unnerved me more often than not.