Mark

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  • Why I Hate... M. Night Shyamalan

    Movie Feature | Mark | 29th January 2007

    With the release of his latest movie Lady In The Water on DVD, our generation's sub-Hitchcock is once again generating column inches. Critics have not been kind - "boring" say some, "career-threateningly catastrophic" says another - but I don't need to see it to know that it's a sickly sweet tale of morality about man and the s...

  • Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

    Movie Review | Mark | 21st January 2007

    "Let me put it this way...all the good parts of Superman II are mine." A pissed-off Richard Donner, 1989 It's a long story, but 26 years after it was filmed, Richard Donner's version of Superman II is finally unleashed on the world. Donner had already shot 80% of the movie when the Salkinds, notorious control freaks and own...

  • Casino Royale

    Movie Review | Mark | 20th November 2006

    No stupid lasers, invisible cars, flying landboats, or improbable gadgets that defy the laws of physics. No Madonna pretending she can act. No idiotic, one-dimensional clichéd bad guys with impossible plans to rule the world. No smartass wisecracks from an invincible ubermensch. Just plain old espionage. At last, with Casino ...

  • Borat

    Movie Review | Mark | 15th November 2006

    All you need is a cliché. A walking, talking cardboard cut out of extremism. Clueless wannabe suburban gangster? Boyakasha, me be Ali G! Ignorant, sexist pig from a country most people haven't heard of? My name-a Borat! A dayglo east European camp fashionista? Ich bin Bruno, coming to ein multiplex near you! Borat: Cultura...

  • Why I Hate... Sequels And Remakes

    Movie Feature | Mark | 9th October 2006

    "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking sequels on my motherfucking movie screens!" Sequels suck. Almost as much as remakes. Or, as they're known these days, "reimaginings." Or, in other words, "Taking all the good bits out and inserting CGI bees." Sequels are, for the most part, unoriginal, often boring, ...

  • A Scanner Darkly

    Movie Review | Mark | 8th September 2006

    Hollywood loves Dick, and that's a fact. Philip K. Dick, that is: whenever the powers that be require a sound sci-fi brain scratcher, they turn to the pages of special K. The man behind Total Recall, Minority Report and the more than slightly less impressive Paycheck, Phil is the go-to guy for short tales of paranoia, future d...

  • Why I Hate... F.A.C.T.

    Movie Feature | Mark | 2nd September 2006

    Love movies? Sure you do. That's why you're here. But we only love movies - not the bullshit that goes with them. Seeing adverts at the movies is a pain in the arse - remember Terry Gilliam's boringly epic football advert with Eric Cantona that made Attack Of The Clones that much further away? Sick and tired of being peppered...

  • Why I Love... 80's Action Movies

    Movie Feature | Mark | 19th August 2006

    With the imminent release of Snakes On A Plane and the recent late night reruns of pretty much every 80's action movie ever made, surely the time is right to return to the Golden Age Of Bad Action Films. The problems with modern action movies are myriad, but, in short it comes down an absence of just one thing - and I hate to s...