EntertainmentMovie Review: The Expendables
written by Lee Clifford
With the exception of Rocky, arguably just about everything written, produced, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone feels hollow of any real substance and is not so much a compelling narrative rather than a love letter to his thoughts on his own badassery...
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Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
written by Lee Clifford
This is a movie that could have gone either way for me going in. We have the creator's of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, two movies I absolutely love as they pander to my twisted sense of humour, and then you have Michael Cera, who I think made me smirk once.
So how did the scales wind up tipping? The scales fell right off in favour of hilarity!...
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Movie Reviews: The Other Guys
written by Lee Clifford
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Movie Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (VIDEO)
Movie Review: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (WRITTEN)
written by Lee Clifford
Team Disney/Bruckheimer is back with another cinematic treat for you.
Quick history lesson: in the 1940 Disney film, Fantasia, there was a nine minute long piece titled The Sorcerer's Apprentice, where we saw Mickey Mouse in the titular role getting into trouble with brooks that he had come to life through the use of magic.
Here we are 70 years later and Nick Cage stars in the cinematic release of this rather highly anticipated feature film; yeah it has about as much similarity to the original as you think it will.
Our film begins right away with a simple but thorough explanation of Cage's character, Balthazar, and the other key characters of the story that the audience is about the embark on...
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Our Feature Presentation: Inception
by Andrew Tomayer
Inception (definition): origin, an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events. The creation of an idea.
The hallway fight that is just one of the amazing reasons to see this feature presentation
From that alone tells you nothing about this movie and how blown away I was of it. Neither was the teaser trailer that we saw a year ago. We had no idea who was specifically in it (other than Leonardo DiCaprio). We did not have any clue what it was about. All we were given were blaring bass notes played to small tidbits of scenes that seemed so fragmented, even my Grandma couldn’t put this puzzle together (and she likes a good puzzle).
Fast forward to today, all we have for the trailer are Ellen Page and Leo involved in scenes of exploding scenery to set the pace of what really was going on, dreams. The state of the subconscious where we pass out to 8 hours (sometimes more, sometimes less) each and every night, where we like to live in a world that exists only where things seem perfect but artificial.
This premise has been played before time and time again in movies and television. For example inThe Matrix (released over ten years ago if you can believe it, wow I feel old) we have Neo waking up from the dream-like state that was what he thought was the real world. Even in Mulholland Dr. the main character, played brilliantly by Naomi Watts, spends the entire tale realizing that she was in a dream in the end. There have been examples before it and after it, but I am just saying this premise has occurred many times before Inception. However, Christopher Nolan does something differently, like he does in many of his original pieces and even his Batman flicks, he makes you think....
Movie Review: Predators
Written by Lee Clifford
Okay right away there's something I'm going to cover:
My first encounter with the Predator franchise was when I was a very young child. From the commercials I'd seen on television I thought this (what I thought was a robot) alien menace that would be fighting Arnold Schwarzenegger looked really cool.
The movie was pretty extreme for what I had known at the time, but I managed through it, until Predator unmasked and I freaked out. I got through the remainder of the movie until the very end as the unmasked alien, with bubbling gore dripping from its horrific face, laughed menacingly as Arnold ran for his life; I spazzed so bad I almost was physically ill; and thus was born another childhood moment I will never live down.
Come to think of it I felt that way after Aliens vs. Predator but just for different reasons.
But I digress.
So, yes mom I remember 25 years ago when I was a little kid and nearly barfed from Predator.
Moving on.
Predators, despite what many think (and in some cases rightfully so) is not a reboot of the original franchise... sorta.
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