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  • Overrated Movies #2: Donnie Darko

    Movie Feature | Andy | 25th March 2005

    There have been many good films about time travel in the past - Back to The Future, Back to The Future 2, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fave Time Chasers, Planet of The Apes and Freejack. Donnie Darko isn't one of them. Described as "cool", "classic" and "cult" by various beret-wearing critics wh...

  • Overrated Movies #1: Ring

    Movie Feature | | 12th September 2004

    Just because it's Japanese, doesn't mean it's scary. Repeat this mantra to yourself over and over again for the 90 or so minutes you're watching Hideo Nakata's 'psychological horror' and you'll start to realise that behind all the fawning press quotes and lofty claims of a 'new breed of terror' (from people like professional sp...