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Editor's rating:
4.5
Friday, 18 December 2009
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Written by
Daniel Hirshleifer
I should probably get this out of the way up front: James Cameron has done it again. He's made a movie of great visual splendor that doesn't lose sight of the story or characters. Avatar is without a doubt the most beautiful and breathtaking film you will see all year (and, this late in the game, I can probably amend all decade to that statement as well). The real genius is that it's also one of the best of the year overall.Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a cripple from the waist down, agrees to take his dead twin brother's place in a program on the dangerous world of Pandora. The reason people even bother to go there is because of rich mineral deposits that cannot be found on Earth. It turns out he is taking part in an "avatar" program, where ...
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Editor's rating:
3.0
Friday, 11 December 2009
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Written by
Daniel Hirshleifer
Sometimes you know when you're seeing history unfold before your eyes. Even though I was very young, I can still remember seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall, and of course 9/11 and Barack Obama winning the presidency of the United States. But before Obama, there was Nelson Mandela. A civil rights activist in South Africa who was jailed for subversive activities by the Apartheid National Government, Mandela was later freed from imprisonment and managed to become the president of South Africa once all races were allowed to vote equally. Mandela is considered one of the elder statesman of human rights causes, and his name is often uttered in the same breath as Mahatma Gandhi.Invictus is about Nelson Mandela. But it's not about his early life as an activist, or his time in prison, or even his campaign to get ...
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Editor's rating:
3.5
Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Written by
Daniel Hirshleifer
There was a time when the name "Disney" meant unassailable quality in animation. The studio of course kick started feature-length animation with the classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and had a renaissance in the format beginning in 1989 with the brilliant The Little Mermaid. However, when Pixar arrived on the scene in 1995, the industry began to shy away from traditional hand-drawn cell animation in favor of the more glitzy and glamorous 3D CGI. Not only that, but Disney began pumping out 2D hand-drawn films faster than before, resulting in less interesting entries like Tarzan and outright failures such as Home on the Range (although a few delights such as The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch are sprinkled in). Disney eventually closed down their animation department in favor of CGI. Surprisingly, it was Pixar, who originally ...
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Editor's rating:
3.5
Monday, 28 September 2009
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Written by
Daniel Hirshleifer
"Sleep, those little slices of death. Oh, how I loathe them." -Edgar Allen Poe What happens when we close our eyes at night? What sort of things lurk in the dark, waiting for us to drop our guard, waiting to feast on our flesh and prey on our souls? Have you ever tried to fall asleep, only to toss and turn, certain that someone, or something, was watching you? What if that something decided that watching wasn't enough? What if it decided the time had come...to act? You see, Katie (Katie Featherston) has been experiencing this her whole life. Ever since she was eight, she would wake in the middle of the night to find a shadowy figure looming at the foot of her bed. The figure would come and go, haunting her at intervals, regardless of where she moved to try ...
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Editor's rating:
0.5
Thursday, 27 August 2009
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Written by
Daniel Hirshleifer
I've spent a lot of time defending Rob Zombie. His first picture, House of 1,000 Corpses, while not entirely original, showed a man who was passionate and stuck to his guns, crafting a horror flick that didn't shy away from gore, nudity, and the things that make the more extreme genre exercises fun. Its follow-up, The Devil's Rejects, refined the ideas of the first, and was buoyed by sharper storytelling and bleak, pitch-black humor. However, Zombie's movies are very divisive, with just as many people (if not more) hating his work as those that love it. When Zombie was tapped to remake John Carpenter's 1978 genre-defining classic Halloween, the horror community rose a deafening clamor. Everyone was worried he'd turn the masterpiece of suspense and mood into a cheap thrill ride, with nothing to distinguish it from the forgettable everyday ...
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