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Doom

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 26, 2005 ⋅ One comment

Doom. Well, it didn’t suck, per se. Perhaps I should start over. Doom. It features a cast of about seven people who are just itching to get their guts spilled by some clever animated creature from Mars or Hell or wherever these movie monsters typically arrive from. It’s not unlike the John Carpenter movie Ghosts [...]

The Fog

By jelewis8 ⋅ October 18, 2005 ⋅ One comment

The Fog is about as cinematically interesting as pea soup. Which is director Rupert Wainwright’s favourite soup, incidentally. And, perhaps less coincidentally, the film’s muddled plot has the same consistency. When directing a ghost story, it’s not fair to viewers to keep changing the mechanism by which the ghosts enact their fearsome return to the [...]

Assault on Precinct 13

By jelewis8 ⋅ January 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

When you stand in line and request a ticket for a movie like Assault on Precinct 13, hand your money over with a smile, and gleefully stroll down that long dark hallway to Theatre 7, odds are you aren’t there for David Mametesque dialogue or scintillating drama, the pathos of a humanity-laden, emotionally charged period [...]

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