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The World’s End; Rating: 4/4

August 30th, 2013 at 8:12 pm » Comments (1)

Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are one of the greatest teams to come out of comedy in quite some time. A sort of modern-day Monty Python, they previously created the ...more »

Pacific Rim; Rating: 4/4

July 16th, 2013 at 2:30 am » Comments (0)

I heard somebody describe Pacific Rim as something directly from the mind of a 12-year-old boy playing in his room, holding his dinosaur and robot figurines and bashing them into ...more »

World War Z; Rating: 3/4

July 2nd, 2013 at 1:33 am » Comments (0)

Within the last few years, our continued fascination with zombies has only gotten stronger. First made popular by George A. Romero in The Night of the Living Dead; we have ...more »

Oblivion; Rating: 3.5/4

April 21st, 2013 at 9:59 pm » Comments (0)

Whenever I ask people if they have seen the latest Tom Cruise movie, I always hear the same response: "I don't like Tom Cruise." But people make this judgment almost ...more »

Looper; Rating: 4/4

January 3rd, 2013 at 3:37 am » Comments (0)

There is no shortage of great sci-fi movies out there. And within the past few years, a unique style of "intelligent sci-fi" has emerged. These films deal with such diverse ...more »

The Hunger Games; Rating: 3/4

March 26th, 2012 at 4:46 am » Comments (4)

"So which one was better, the book or the movie?" It is a question that I am often asked when I see a film adaptation of a popular novel. But ...more »