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Review: Gemini Man proves a blunt instrument can't have a cutting edge
Movie Review | Ali Gray | 6th October 2019
Gemini Man, to its credit, is a film that couldn't feasibly have existed until this precise moment in time. Ang Lee, perennial pusher of envelopes, has created a movie of such terrifying technological oomph, it simply could not have been made before now - it feels so new and box fresh, if you squint, you can still see the price tag on all the pixels. The ultra-high 100fps frame rate - suck it, The Hobbit! - in combination with native 3D and mind-boggling de-ageing CG imagery gives Gemini Man the feel of a cutting edge tech demo on an impossibly expensive John Lewis TV that you could never dream of affording. What's truly baffling, then, is why a movie boasting such impressive visuals would be sold so short by a story that feels like something Steven Seagal would have passed on in 1998.
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Life Of Pi
Movie Review | Matt | 7th December 2012
Yann Martel's novel The Life Of Pi is one of those books that many people - myself included - will swear is one of their all-time favourite reads. A gripping tale that is, above all else, a life-affirming study of survival and faith. And now, after almost 10 years of trying to get a movie adaptation off the ground, the supposedly 'unfilmable' story is brought to life in such magnificent, spectacular fashion that, well you might as well no longer bother with the book. Seriously, this is pretty much the gist of it. And reading takes ages anyway.
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Even Life Of Pi contains product placement
Movie Feature | Matt | 2nd November 2012
To be fair, you just can't waste an opportunity like that. (IMP).
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Countdown to Life Of Pi being spoiled completely in 5, 4, 3.14159
Movie News | Luke | 14th June 2012
Because the little kid in it is named "Pi", and there's a transcendental number also called pi. Did you like my joke? Please say yes.
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Brokeback Mountain
Movie Review | Ali | 2nd March 2006
Picture this scenario: A cinema, packed to bursting point on a Saturday evening, punters literally spilling out of the doors and onto the pavement outside, apparently quite prepared to face being hit by passing cars in order to join the queues. What's the reason for this mass cinematic pilgrimage? Potter? Kong? Aslan? Scar...
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Hulk
Movie Review | Ali | 2nd January 2005
Admit it, you were a bit sceptical, weren't you? I mean, it's one thing converting a hugely popular comic book superhero into a successful movie, but a completely CGI Hulk as the main character? That'll cause a few problems, right? Hiring Ang Lee, director of The Ice Storm and Sense & Sensibility, also raised a few eyebrows -...
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